October 2001

One of the things that’s really bugging me about this football season is that I haven’t (yet!) gotten to see a home Gator game. I don’t know if I’ll get a chance, but I’m hoping.
If anyone has the opporunity, I would really appreciate it if I could get one of the plastic cups from the stadium for this season. I have a collection going back to the ‘94 season of every Coke cup from Florida Field. If you get to a game and order a $2.50 (Are they $2.75 now? $3.00?) Coke, I would be eternally grateful if you’d send me a cup. Let me know …

Gainesville Sun writer Robbie Andreu has a piece today that opens with these lines: “There is no secret, no mystery anymore. It’s become common knowledge that there’s a way to knock the fun right out of the Fun ‘n’ Gun. Stop the run, of course.”
Well, yes and no. There have been, as far I have seen, two ways to stop UF’s offense. Stopping the run is a good way but no guarantee, and the Auburn game proves how difficult it is to rely on that strategy since UF probably could have won the game using only the pass. Heck, they almost did.
The more effective way is to cram the line with as many defenders as you can manage, giving both the QB and/or running backs less time to make decisions. Nebraska did this best in the national title game, but it can be done by a team with a good front four and two excellent cornerbacks. Like, say, Miami.
There are risks to it, but those are probably better than sitting back and daring UF to beat you in the air. With as well as Grossman has been throwing this year, they’re capable of it.

It took a few hours, but I finally converted almost all of my Hemingway site into The Hemingway Blog. It’s in MovableType now and I’m very pleased with the result. I still have to get the dozens (multiple dozens!) of essays on the author into some sort of bloggable format, but that’s just a bunch of find and replacing with good ol’ EditPad.

I’m trying to decide if I want to convert bling (my main page) to MT yet. Ben and Mena say that they will soon add the ability to import GreyMatter comments into an MT blog. But I know I can hack it myself a bit to do this. I just know that if I do it, though, it probably won’t be as pretty as if I wait until they’ve got an “official” way to do it.

Coop and Papa.com is a fascinating website that details the decades-long friendship between Gary Cooper, the actor, and Ernest Hemingway.

The extended entry for this post (click ‘more’) contains a timeline of Ernest Hemingway’s life, including links to essays on many of his works. The timeline is updated frequently and is one of the most-requested pages on this site.
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At Lunch with Ernest Hemingway is a transcript of an imaginary interview with the author. Sven Birkerts wrote this in 1999 and it is an interesting tale of how Hemingway might view the world - and his influence on it - today.

The Atlantic has a retrospective of all the articles, essays, and reviews they’ve ever published about Hemingway. This is a great essay containing lots of information about contemporary views of his work. It covers everything printed about the author in The Atlantic from 1939 to 1983.

Hemingway and the Beasts, by Jens Bjorneboe, is an essay exploring animal symbolism in Hemingway’s works. (translated from Norwegian)

Timeless Hemingway was founded by Josh Silverstein in September of 1998. His page has become one of the premiere sites for Hemingway fans on the ‘net. The human-powered Hemingway Quote Finder and the extensive FAQ page have made this site a must-click for researchers and students.

This engaging book — Picturing Hemingway — is filled with more than 70 portraits of Hemingway and those around him, commemorating the life of one of America’s most important writers. The exceptional drawings, paintings, and abundant photographs displayed and generously captioned in this volume record nearly every stage of Hemingway’s life and career.

The website Ernest Hemingway’s Places hope[s] to celebrate many of the significant literary sites that belong in some way to the legacy of Ernest Hemingway. This site details the life and experiences of the author in respect to his location when he wrote and how his geographical setting(s) influenced his work. Hemingway in the Snow, for example, is an article that describes some of the winter adventures Hemingway pursued and how the effect of these can be seen in his writing.

Collecting Hemingway is a site that has many items for sale. Here you can find numerous editions of most of the author’s works.
“The purpose of this site is not to present a biography, but to focus on collecting the books themselves, notably, the first editions.”

The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, FL is a registered national historic landmark. This site has details concerning hours and admission prices, as well as a wealth of information about the museum.

The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center is an off-campus program of Arkansas State University designed to contribute to the regional, national and global understanding of the 1920s and 1930s eras by focusing on the internationally connected Pfeiffer family of Piggott, Arkansas and their son-in-law, Ernest Hemingway. The properties of the museum associated with Hemingway include a barn studio and the family home of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.