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The importance of being Ernest
by Mary - July 10, 2006 - 12:04 PM

Hey, guys: You’ve got just 10 more days to grow out your beards, boost your alcohol tolerance, brush up on your boxing (and your knack for writing unadorned but devastating prose) and get down to Key West for the annual Hemingway Look-Alike contest!

Each year, the annual look-alike challenge attracts a field of national and international entrants who dress in Hemingwayesque safari garb, wool fishermen’s turtlenecks and other sporting attire in an attempt to emulate the Pulitzer and Nobel winner’s “Papa” persona. Applauded by enthusiastic cheering sections, they parade onstage at Sloppy Joe’s, 201 Duval St., Hemingway’s favorite watering hole when he lived and wrote in Key West throughout the 1930s.

If you think you’ve got what it takes (Mango, I’m looking at you), sign up here.

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Comments (3)

  1. Yeah, mangesh has an unfair advantage being Indian.

    posted by Will on 7-10-2006 at 12:31 pm

  2. My favorite Hemingway fact is that he couldn’t spell. Imagin thet?

    posted by David on 7-11-2006 at 8:34 am

  3. Get inebriated enough and everyone will look like Hemingway, no one will be able to spell, let alone write more than simple sentences, and none of the “contestants” will care. Sounds like an everyone-wins kind of affair.

    posted by Jan Bodine on 7-19-2006 at 12:28 pm

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