Slog - Comments on He won the Hemingway look-alike contest and it felt good. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a There were 123 contenders for the glory. This year's winner "shares Hemingway's fondness for Key West, cats and having a good time, though he has never attempted any writing--except insurance policies." His favorite book of Hemingway's is The Old Man and the Sea. (Wrong answer!) Plus, does he look a little chipper to you? A little too Christmas-y? Those cheeks? All I'm saying is, this guy was robbed:... Copyright 2008 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:45:50 -0800 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:41:46 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Key West fucking blows.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767336 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767336 Celeb Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:36:05 -0800 Comment by kinaidos Does he get and Abercrombie and Fitch double barrel shotgun as part of the price package, and maybe an electroshock package thrown it to boot? That would explain how this could be an annual contest.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767338 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767338 Celeb Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:42:41 -0800 Comment by SeMe
I love this from Mc Sweeney:

SIGNS OF
IMPENDING SUICIDE
THAT HEMINGWAY'S
FRIENDS MAY HAVE
OVERLOOKED.
- - - -
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767348 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767348 Celeb Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:09:47 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger Ah... Hemmingway and the glorification of war. Such a fitting author in this glorious new age of American Imperialism and Fascist Bliss!

Didn't Chris cover this same thing last year though? It sounds really familiar.

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767360 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767360 Celeb Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:42:53 -0800 Comment by SeMe The Spanish civil war was a war against Fascism. For whom the bell tolls clearly takes the side of the Spanish Republicans( Anarchists Communists)and some of the internationalists that fought there, including the old left americans who fought for the Abe Lincoln Brigade. It is, to be brief, not a glorification of war, but a novel about the necessary struggle against Franco's Fascists. Nowhere does it glorify imperialism.

Have you actually read Hemmingway?

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767375 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767375 Celeb Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:00:05 -0800 Comment by erin you know, now that i think about it, i actually looks a lot like Papa H.

]]> erin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767394 Celeb Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:37:06 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger @5 Read that and his other works. There is nothing glamorous about war and Hemmingway certianly does a great job at making war glamorous.

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767638 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767638 Celeb Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:33:04 -0800 Comment by NJ Matt @Cato

Let's see...In For Whom the Bell Tolls their comrade turns on them and the main character dies. In A Farewell to Arms infantry are shot willy-nilly to spare the officer's the disgrace of defeat. In The Sun Also Rises Jake Barnes is impotent because of war wounds. You have an odd idea of glory.

]]> NJ Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/he_won_the_hemingway_lookalike_contest_a#c767700 Celeb Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:41:46 -0800