Last week Union Hall hosted the third annual Carnivorous Nights taxidermy contest, and as a Daily Intel post testifies, it was a hot ticket. Who were we rooting for amid the two-headed cats and squirrels in Pope hats? Well, Nate Hill, of course — he’s the soft-spoken man known to Grub Street readers for his tours of Chinatown trash piles. Hill used the bounty from those forages to build the head of his A.D.A.M. (A Dead Animal Man), and once you’ve taken a gander at it, you probably won’t blame us for not being very hungry after the contest.

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