Papa! Texan Honored as Hemingway Lookalike
A Texas developer won an annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike competition, rocking Sloppy Joe’s, the writer’s favorite Key West drinking hole, with a takeoff on Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.”
Fifth-year contestant Chris Storm, 55, of Amarillo sang, “If I don’t win this contest, we’re going home in tears.” He also addressed the crowd in Swahili.
In a more literary highlight, the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition was won by Beth McMurray, 25, a graduate student from San Mateo who netted $1,000 for her story “Mascot,” about a young girl’s emotionally adrift parents.
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