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  1. Hemingway Jones

    Typewriters

    I picked up this Hermes 3000 for $30 yesterday. it works great. it is a little scuffed, but sometimes that is liberating because you don't have to worry about it. This model was from circa 1960 and is a real solid typewriter with an interesting and easy-to-read typeface. This is the same...
  2. Hemingway Jones

    Have television shows finally surpassed movies?

    Television at its best is a long form of story telling that allows for much deeper character and situational development. We are in a new golden era of the form and the rise of the television auteur. This was heralded by The Sopranos and it had affected every great show since. The problem Aries...
  3. Hemingway Jones

    Brylcreem

    I just tried this stuff and it is working awesome for me. It's not greasy at all and allows me to part my hair with precision. I am actually impressed with how well it works.
  4. Hemingway Jones

    Typewriters

    Shopping in the 1950s. Although I am 47, I have never had the experience of buying a manual typewriter new, until recently. I bought this Olivetti Lettera 22 in its original box, original packaging, and never typed on. It was completely mint. The label showed that it was a prize for...
  5. Hemingway Jones

    Vintage Typefaces

    My favorite is the Vogue typeface on Royal typewriters from the late 20s & early 30s. These were usually on odd colored Royal P-s. Google it for an example. I need one of these machines!
  7. Hemingway Jones

    Typewriters

    I bought this machine for my wife. It is an Olympia SM-7 from the mud sixties. It is in lovely shape and works perfectly. It is precise and snappy, very much a product of W German engineering. And it types in a lovely script connecting font. It's great for letters.
  8. Hemingway Jones

    Typewriters

    Picked up a new friend! This is a Royal KHM. It types like a dream. It only needed a new ribbon and some car wax to bring back the shine! Seriously, turtle wax worked wonders!
  9. Hemingway Jones

    men who write in or keep journals

    I keep leather bound journals going back for the last 13 years or so. I find that they are great therapy. The are excellent for reference and for remembering the details of trips, where I was when, and what I was thinking on certain dates. It's pretty amazing to reference what was going...
  10. Hemingway Jones

    Mom! The drone is here!

    This was brilliant marketing by the folks at Amazon. They even convinced 60 minutes to cover it and now the entire country, including we FLers, are speaking about it, and them, and at Christmastime! I don't think that they have any intention of trying to make this thing a reality; at least...
  11. Hemingway Jones

    What Does The FL Think of So-called Black Friday?

    L.L. Bean has an exemption to that Maine law, evidently. They don't have locks on their doors.
  13. Hemingway Jones

    Would you attend an event or dinner alone?

    When I was single I traveled everywhere by myself, from Venice to Madrid to the DR. I made friends, had all sorts of adventures, and took some amazing photos. Now I am married and I still do all of those things, but with someone and it is more amazing. It never felt weird doing it alone, but...
  14. Hemingway Jones

    Cocktail of the weekend

    I do now, at least my own way, which is like making vodka tea, I suppose, and without heat. I cribbed the original drink recipe from PF Chang of all places! It's good though and I'll take inspiration where I find it.
  15. Hemingway Jones

    Cocktail of the weekend

    Black Tea Gimlet.
  16. Hemingway Jones

    Cocktail of the weekend

    Black tea infused vodka, St Germaine, Sage, and lemon.
  17. Hemingway Jones

    Pen suggestions

    I wouldn't call a Meisterstuck heavy. That's my everyday pen and the best writer of any pen I have ever owned. It also has a great fill mechanism, but I digress... The heaviest pen that I own or have felt so far is my Cartier Diabolo; Chinese lacquer and a brass core, I believe. It feels as if...
  19. Hemingway Jones

    Typewriters

    Thank you, Gentlemen! It's the original color. It's quite striking in person. It's bring blood red with dark edges and a bit brighter in the middle. Still learning to type on it!
  20. Hemingway Jones

    Typewriters

    My new Royal typewriter, well, new to me. I love this machine. I'm having a lot of fun with it.
  21. Hemingway Jones

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I would encourage you all to seek out "Broadchurch" wherever you may find it; BBC America in the States. It is a fantastic bit of story-telling, atmospheric, interesting, and I will say little else less I give too much away. Let me at least say that the intrigue is as thick as David Tennant's...
  22. Hemingway Jones

    Parade's End

    Interesting how a modern audience cannot relate to someone whose actions are dictated by decorum and duty; not so much by his own making but crafted from the traditions of a bygone age, or receding age at any event. Hmm, could be some ironies there... That may have been Ford's point all along...
  23. Hemingway Jones

    Parade's End

    Parade's End is an adaptation by Tom Stoppard of four Ford Maddox Ford novels that cover the collapse of Edwardian Society through an analogy of a failed marriage. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch, who I think is wonderful in everything and Rebecca Hall as his beguiling, but unfaithful wife. The...

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