Blog Envy: Seth Mazow’s Year of the Pizza

Every fall, Home Slice hosts a Carnival O’ Pizza. We have games for kids, performances, a raffle, a dunking booth, contests of all kinds, and pizza of course. And prizes! Prizes galore! We have a pizza tossing contest where pizzaiolos from Austin and beyond compete to throw the fastest and largest pies. We have a pizza eating contest, which has been won by the same person three years running. AND we have a contest of will and endurance called “Hands on an Eggplant Sub.” Contestants place their hands on an eggplant sub and the last hand standing, wins. The first year we did it, it went 13 hours, we actually called it a draw because we had no idea it would go so long. We had no contingency plan for it going past 4 am when the last of our employees were gone for the day. So, the second year we planned for an overnighter and it went 27 hours! It was not a pretty sight.

Which brings us to last year’s winner, Seth Mazow. In a hot 7 hours, Seth was crowned. The rumor going around is that the gal he was up against forgot what she was doing (?) and took her hand off (?). Consequently, Seth won free pizza for a year, and he created a fantastic blog about his year eating pizza aptly titled Year of the Pizza.

Maybe Seth will be defending his title this year? Eh?

Stormtroopers of Pizza

Photo by J.D. Hancock

Server Mix Tapes: Vanessa’s ‘Aye Mami’ Mix

Click here to listen.

Something old, something new, something cheesy, something blue.

 

This newlywed couple came in to Home Slice for some very yummy wedding photographs! They were going to all their favorite places in Austin to remember their special day. Congratulations guys!

Whitney Lee specializes is creative wedding photography. Check her out!

Allyson eats pizza in the green room (which is actually rather orange)!

This is blogworthy because she hasn’t eaten dairy in two years. We are honored and we wish her the best, considering she performs with Tiana and the Allysons on Saturday

The pizza eating champ wins again!

Chris Floyd, the three year reigning king of our annual pizza eating contest has won again. This time when it comes to t-shirt design. He always comes with an ever-growing posse and this year he came with awesome custom t-shirts t-shirts. Way to go Chris!

Design | Browse | Retrieve | Help Wow, What a Year! Announcing the Best of 2008 1. Tastiest Competition – Don’t mess with Chris from Austin, TX when it comes to pizza-eating competitions! 2. Best Bang for the Buck – T-shirts! We added more budget-friendly tees to save you money. 3. Favorite Charity Photo – These walkers really earned their blisters during a 60-mile walk! 4. Coolest Sports Design – The best sports design award goes to Pandamonium, a fun-loving softball team from Pittsburgh, PA. 5. Most Random Trivia – In some parts of the world, this mystery product is known as a “bunny hug”! 6. Best New Products – Awesome tie-dye and sporty stripes – in youth and adult sizes. 7. Most Colorful Photo – These kids really brighten up the playground. 8. Best Customer Design – Yours! Pull it up and admire it. 9. Most Random Clip Art – What’s with the delinquent donut? 10. Favorite Customer Feedback – From Brian in Grafton, WI: “I bought these for my high school’s cross country team, and now every kid in the school wants one, and people are asking me to design stuff for their teams. Thanks for making me popular.” We’re happy to help! Better Because of You… We owe you a big thanks. Because of constructive customer comments, we expanded our t-shirt offering in 2008 to include smaller and larger sizes – from infant onesies and youth shirts to tall tees and plus sizes! Thanks for improving the CustomInk experience.

 

Homies for the Holidays

Shauna's mom Sheila and family rockin' their Home Slice gear in the Adirondak Mountains (That's in NY, Yo!)

A Raver Review

This post is long over due. Back in September we received an email from Katie Raver, one of our regulars, alerting us to a blog post we may be interested in:

Dear Home Slice Pizza,
I’m not a food writer.  I’m not even really a writer at all.  But I do love good food, and I have come to adore your food in the last month.  I adore it so much, I was moved to write a blog entry about it (I actually started my blog with this as the first post), and I thought I’d share it with you.  I don’t have any sizable readership, but I feel like I “get it” about your food.  And even if I don’t, it makes me feel great.

Here’s the link to the post: Home Slice Pizza and the Dangerous Food Movement

Thank you!
Katie Raver

Katie’s blog, Explorations and Applications in NLP Land (NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming), not only says some really nice things about Home Slice, but it is outwardly apparent that our pizza makes smart people even smarter, as evidenced by Katie’s discipline and field of study. On top of that, she truly does “get” what we are trying to do. So thanks, Katie!