The Old Man and the Sea - The Expedition

A fishing adventure in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway. Three Swedes set out to catch one of the fastest and strongest fish on earth ­ marlin - from a kayak. This documentary tells the story about never giving up. It also reflects on the fact that our seas do not look as they did in Hemingway's time. Adventure and excitement in combination with conservation and beautiful footage.

Proceeds from the film go to the Billfish Fundation.

Hemingway's Josie Russell Cocktail

The recipe for this drink came from Ernest Hemingway's fishing log handwritten in June of 1933, where its ingredients were listed under the simple heading “Cocktail.” The name pays tribute to Joe “Josie Grunts” Russell, a close friend of Hemingway’s who ran liquor from Cuba to Florida during Prohibition and, immediately following its repeal, opened Key West mainstay Sloppy Joe’s. Hemingway was fishing on Russell’s boat when he wrote down the recipe for this drink, a potent blend of rum, hard apple cider, lime, and sugar.

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Hemingway Describes His Ideal Bro Paradise

In between comparing dicks and boozing it up around Paris, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald found time to write letters to each other. In this excerpt of a letter Hemingway wrote to Fitzgerald from Spain in 1925 Hemingway starts describing his ideal bro paradise:

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors and one house would be fitted up with special copies of the Dial printed on soft tissue and kept in the toilets on every floor and in the other house we would use the American Mercury and the New Republic.

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The Heming Way

With chapters such as "For Whom the Beer Flows," "Death in the Afternoon... Lunch is Served," "A Farewell to Smooth Arms, Backs, Faces, Taints, etc.," and "The Old Man and the See You in Hell," former Esquire editor Marty Beckerman demonstrates how modern eunuchs—brainwashed by PETA and Alcoholics Anonymous—can realize their full potential as drunken, unshaven, meat-devouring, wife-divorcing, gloriously self-destructive manimals.

How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within... Just Like Papa!

Nada Knot

A Hemingway parody by Ed Gilbreth in the Post and Courier inspired Hemingway's nephew to write in and share a parody he wrote called the Nada Knot.

He was a young man. He had gone twelve years without catching a fish on the fly. He had never fished with the fly. Now he had to face the knot of the fly. He had never done the knot. The old man always tied the knot. He wished the old man were here but he was not.

"Fish," he said, "you are a friend of the old man and he kills you. It is love, this killing. I cannot knot. If you cannot knot, you cannot truly kill your love."

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