Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Throw some fernet in there any you've got quite the cocktail.

Roy Head
Roy Money

... always and forever.

... that's Roy Loney of course.

OTL

Josefa, the William Gass / William Gaddis / William T. Vollmer nexus is also an area of treachery.

Don't get me started on John Barth / Donald Barthelme / Richard Barthelmess.

John Gardner, John Berger, and Thomas Berger is a perennial for me

German Romanticism edition:

Novalis
Jean-Paul

Novalis/ Novels

That's actually not just a cheap joke: when I was younger I thought the Novalis was a genre pioneered by the Germans like The Bildungsroman, like a novella or something

The Monochrome Set
The American Analog Set

Hannah Diamond
Hannah Peel

Hannah Banana

At least one of these is actually Miley Cyrus

Scalise
Scalia

Sinise

Stamford
Stanford

Frankie Paul
Tristan Palma

"My Thomas Pynchon one is with Don DeLillo. I just looked up which one is older and they are the same age so that is not helpful"

DeLillo has written about 5x as many books

"Don't get me started on John Barth / Donald Barthelme / Richard Barthelmess"

let me introduce you to Fredrick Barthelme

Oh yeah, forgot about him temporarily

L'Rain
L'Orange

Tom Ford
Thom Browne

(Until today I didn’t realize they were different people tbh)

I put this in the wrong thread:

Every breath you take
Right here waiting

George Santos
George Soros

That baby business was REALLY confusing.

Gavin Friday and Fergal Sharkey

This thread is too large to search...I'm guessing Alan Hamel (Suzanne Somers' husband) / Alan Thicke (pop-star father) have been mentioned. Both Canadian. Hamel came up in conversation tonight.

Syllabub
Posset
Negus

Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Barbara Ehrenreich
or at least I have to think which is which n don't think I'm biased

tanya tucker
tonya harding

Matthew Perry
Brendan Fraser

OTOH, I never mistook either one for Brendan Perry

Jim Weider
John Weider

ken gold
barry blue

^ in their capacity as disco producers at least. one of them did heatwave, one of them did the real thing

Blue Weaver
Mick Weaver

xpost and Barry Blue did "Dancing on a Saturday Night" so hey.

Ari Shapiro
Ira Shapiro

Like, literally, these dudes need to get together and not just for the sake of crossword puzzle fans

Mike Moore (1982-1995, 161-176, 4.39 ERA)
Mike Morgan (1978-2002, 141-186, 4.23 ERA)

Both could have been used on today's Immaculate Grid for the A's/Mariners. (Why is this guy hiding that? Don't ask.)

The goose
The gander

Israel, Palestine & the Levant rolling events: Oct 23 on
Israel/Palestine post 10/7 - follow-on events/thoughts as relate to other countries

Shelley Long
Sally Field

Oh that's not unlike the Karen Allen / Margot Kidder axis.

Arthur Russell
Arthur Baker

Not always--not till today. I just finished a documentary on Arthur Russell, and it wasn't until three-quarters of the way through that I clued into the fact that I wasn't watching a documentary on Arthur Baker.

you could say, there was some...confusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_L_-CKg6pw

J.G. Bennett
J.G. Ballard

Speaking of J.G. Ballard always puts me in mind of Crash (1996) vs. Crash (2004).

Then you get Robert Ballard, who is associated with the Titanic. Which kinda famously... crashed.

smells like teen spirit (SLTS)
scream thy last scream (STLS)

Alison Krauss
Alexis Krauss

Gang Gang Dance
Dead Can Dance

Bardo Pond
Bark Psychosis

Passaic (New Jersey)
Pessac (Bordeaux)

Passaic Avenue, Fairfield, NJ
The 500 other Passaic Avenues in NJ

(At a previous job, my half hour drive included 3 different Passaic Avenues)

Dave Courtney
David Courtney

(I've only just discovered these are different people, Dave Courtney would have been 14 when he started writing songs with Leo Sayer otherwise.)