Twofer
Reading, Twofer December 18th, 2008 
You know how you will be watching a movie on TBS or some channel like that and the next movie on will have one of the same actors in it? Whenever I watch a movie that has an actor in common with the last movie I watched (the same day), I call it a twofer. Sometimes I will watch a movie on another channel just because it would be a twofer. Anyway… I have noticed that books are almost always thematic twofers. For example, I was reading Midnight’s Children, which takes place in India and involves a pickle factory owner. Next, I read The God of Small Things about twins in India whose grandmother owns Paradise Pickles. After that, I read Gob’s Grief about twin brothers during the Civil War. One dies and the other dedicates his life to building a machine to bring him back. Do I just notice these threads because brains are made to make connections? Maybe most books have twins, India and pickles so it is just laws of averages. Anyway, I am almost done Gob’s Grief so we will see if the streak continues.
December 20th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Is this entry actually an unreleased King Missile song?
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:04 pm
not sure if this is a ‘twofer.’ i saw hustle and flow which had terrence howard and ludacris. (spoiler alert) it has a scene in which terrence howard beats up ludacris in a bathroom. then, a week later i saw crash which also stars terrence howard and ludacris. again (spoiler alert) terrence howard’s character beats up ludacris. as you can imagine, i was flabbergasted by this coincidence.