Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

... that should be Sarah Kane!

AEDs
IEDs

don't ask me to help if you have a heart attack, is what i'm saying

And then there's IUDs. It's a minefield.

And the aedes mosquito, the current scourge of Southern California.

Rob Ford
Doug Ford

I've only seen the grave of one of them

Spin Doctors
Blues Traveler

somehow i thought i'd done this before

CCR rhythm section: Stu Cook, Doug Clifford

AC/DC rhtyhm section: Cliff Williams, Phil Rudd

Hit 1933 musical film 42nd Street has actor Powell and actress Keeler.
Hit 1954 musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers has actor Keel and actress Powell.

Also – my defence is that these periodicals haven't traditionally turned up where I live – the shared initials have made me conflate

The New Republic
National Review

doxxing
catfishing

Shawn Fain
Sinn Féin

Right wondered if anybody had commented on that. Keep hearing the name. Is a bit like hearing about a labour leader called Libdem or Labour Party or Tory Twat. Though obviously not with the same political connotations. Not sure you hear the party name any where near as much on the radio

Naomi Klein has written a book called Doppleganger about people getting her confused with Naomi Wolf and the rather tragic consequences of this

She was on something I listened to yesterday talking about it.& how the other Naomi had become a Gannon fangirl who appeared on his show etc etc

Yan Cook
Yan Can Cook

I didn't realize till today that Stephen Yan (host of Wok With Yan) and Michael Yan (host of Yan Can Cook) were two different cooks.

HK action star Tony Leung Ka-fai, aka "Big Tony"
HK action star Tony Leung Chiu-wai, aka "Little Tony"

I think clientele and belle and sebastian was a fair comparison, at least, if you limit it to their first few years of existence. B&S morphed into something much different over time.

national review/republic trips me up every time. I could not tell you which is which without looking it up even now.

just use this handy mnemonic

The New RepubLippmann
The National RevieWilliam F. Buckley

Russell Brand
Stewart Brand

After four years, I finally got around to watching Joker. This whole time I had mixed up Todd Phillips with Todd Solondz.

I apparently can't tell the difference between A Flock of Seagulls and Grateful Dead. I was at a bar and the song on the sound system I thought was "I Ran" turned out to be "Touch of Grey". And I wasn't the only one to be momentarily confused!

Daniel Jones
Mac Jones

you needn't bother

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Sarah Mary Chadwick

Jim Breuer
Jim Caviezel

I was at a bar and the song on the sound system I thought was "I Ran" turned out to be "Touch of Grey".

They both use the same IV - V chord changes!

Bohemian Grove and Dimes Square.

William Gass
Wallace Stegner
William Styron

Shackleton
Capleton

Leee, you appear to be omitting William Gaddis. William Gass / William Gaddis conflation was already an in-joke in 1992 (when Gass playfully poked fun at the conflation).

I can see why; they were operating in similar literary spaces.

Not true of Stegner (a Western voice) or Styron (a Southern voice, almost as Southern as Faulkner).

To be honest I spent so much time with these guys... I kinda wish I had been doing something else. Like, almost anything else.

Pointless anecdote: On my last day of college I happened to get into an an elevator with my favorite professor. I told him about what I was interested in doing for graduate school. He said, "That's a very crowded field. You should be doing Anglo-Saxon."

As a westerner, I find Stegner to be one of the west's most authentic voices.

Jimbeaux, do you have Cormac McCarthy ist opinions?

I loved Suttree (which is of course much more Southern than Western), liked All the Pretty Horses, and couldn't make it through The Crossing. That is the extent of my encounters with McCarthy. My brother (who gave me the Border Trilogy) adores him.

Suttree stays in my mind almost constantly, but yeah you are right. It's a Southern novel.

Personally I was born in Missouri and live in Virginia so can really only understand Midwestern, Southern, and Eastern vibes. The American West is a mystery to me so Stegner is not really on my radar screen.

When I read Angle of Repose, I immediately recognized the narrator as my people.

I left out Gaddis because he's the only one I've read!

Honestly, up until this season at least, I got Corey Seagar and Trea Turner mixed up all the time. And Seager is indeed Turner's #1 on Baseball Reference's Similarity Score (913.4), although it doesn't quite work in reverse.

Jim Breuer
Jim Caviezel

Castile and Catalan.

William Styron

― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee)

william styron
william saroyan

basically all those cis white male writers kind of blend together

also:

bph
bpd

very different things. i just hate TLAs on general principle.

There are a lot of famous directors named Todd. I don't know any Todds irl, not one.

Henry Mancini
Lalo Schifrin

There are a lot of famous directors named Todd. I don't know any Todds irl, not one.

― (the poster formerly known as Twitter) (flamboyant goon tie included)

a todd embezzled money from me once

he was a libertarian

The invisible hand

Big Head Todd and the Invisible Hand

Simon Pegg
John Simm

Maybe throw in a younger Michael Sheen.

Deleuze and Guattari
Critter and Guitari

Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen