In the Loop: August 2023
A Newsletter Built for Two
In August, we celebrate twins! We don't make the rules—National Twins Day was on August 3, and the good times keep rolling on. So let's hear it for spitting images, dynamic duos, and carbon copies. Hooray for twins, you wonderful weirdos!
But at PostScript, we are all about celebrating the differences along with the similarities. Sure, some twins look alike and share a birthday cake, but there are just as many differences as there are sames. This month, we're finding twinspiration in the unique aspects of soundalikes, lookalikes, and spell-alikes out there.
Editing Q & A: Same Name Citations
MLA
Strathern, Andrew, and Marilyn Strathern. Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen. University of Toronto Press, 1971.
Chicago
Notes
1. Richard Price and Sally Price, Saamaka Dreaming (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017).
Author-Date
Shelley, Mary, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. (1820) 2021. Proserpine and Midas. Berkeley, CA: Graphic Arts Books.
(Shelley and Shelley [1820] 2021)
APA
Woolf, V., & Woolf, L. (1917). Two stories. Hogarth Press.
(Woolf & Woolf, 1917)
PS Playlist: Double Trouble
What's the Diff?
There are a lot of sneaky words out there—words with similar spellings, similar sounds, or just similar vibes. Here’s the lowdown on some of those commonly swapped-by-accident words.
I was in my 40s when I learned that there are two different ways to pronounce the word primer (and they have two very different meanings). They do, however, have identical spellings.
Primer (n): One version of primer is the first coat of something, like paint or an explosive cap. This version rhymes with “timer” or “climber.”
Primer (n): The other version of primer is a small informative or introductory book, like you would use to teach schoolchildren. This version rhymes with “skimmer” or “dimmer.”
See the Cool Guide (below) for the differences between heteronyms, homographs, homophones, heterographs, and homonyms.
Cool Guide
Stuff We Like
There’s a reason that the twins from The Shining give you the whim-whams.
Well, whadd’ya know? It turns out baseball players CAN score two runs in one play. Someone should tell the Twins.
Which one is Deep Impact and which one is Armageddon? Here’s a list of 14 times movies with the same plot were released in the same year.
What’s your favorite album and why is it Twin Cinema?
TwinsTheNewTrend react to hearing Phil Collins’s “In the Air Tonight” for the first time.
The answer is in the starlight: solar twins reveal a bunch of cool stuff about the universe.
Did you know that Diane Keaton directed an episode of Twin Peaks?
Artist Alma Haser made jigsaw puzzles out of portraits of identical twins, then swapped every other piece when putting them together. The results are really dang cool.
You knew there would be at least one link about twin studies, right? It’s a showdown between nature and nurture.
You’ve heard of soulmates, but have you found your twin flame? (Did you know that a twin flame is even a thing?)
Wonder Twins activate some of the most brilliantly wonderful things. Like an ice gondola.
Attention Gemini fans: If you’re wondering which is the brighter twin star, it’s Pollux.
Marasa (which means twins in Creole) is one of the sacred spirits that must be invoked before a vodou ceremony can begin. And now you learned something.
How many kids do you think knew what was happening during this Sesame Street segment of Monsterpiece Theatre's "Twin Beaks"?
Pay It Forward: Meet Renée Coughlin
Renée Coughlin is an award-winning singer-songwriter and internationally touring musician who writes, records, and performs with The Pairs, an independent folk trio based out of London, ON. Her formal training as part of large choral ensembles and orchestras provided a framework in which she learned to listen closely to the nuances in arrangements. Her writing reveals this attention to detail and her lyrics reflect equal parts sensitive, introverted, observer, and rowdy shit disturber. She is a storyteller who employs melody as a tool to open and soften into the complex realities of feeling and witnessing life as a human being.
Pretty amazing, right? Renée also happens to be a twin, but that's not what she talks about over on the blog.
You can hear Renée's work online and find out about her many adventures with The Pairs at https://reneecoughlincreating.com/.
Photo by Mariam Waliji.
