{"id":977,"date":"2009-05-18T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/05\/18\/doppelgangers\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:13:00","slug":"doppelgangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/05\/18\/doppelgangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Doppelgangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the same vein as today&#8217;s &#8220;Writer&#8217;s Block&#8221; prompt on LiveJournal (<a href=\"http:\/\/sparckl.livejournal.com\/10092.html\">&#8220;Same Name&#8221;<\/a>), here are a few other people and things with similiar names&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Ken Levine:<\/span>  There&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/kenlevine.blogspot.com\/\">TV comedy writer<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/developer\/sheet\/view\/developerId,6832\/\">video game designer<\/a>.  I met the former at last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitcomroom.com\/\">Sitcom Room<\/a>, and heard the latter give the keynote speech at last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennyarcadeexpo.com\/\">PAX<\/a>.  They&#8217;re both quite accomplished in their respective fields.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Chocolat\/Chocolate:<\/span>  One is the Academy Award-nominated 2000 film directed by Lasse Halstr&ouml;m and starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.  The other is a 2008 Thai action movie featuring &#8220;[a]n autistic woman with powerful martial art skills&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1183252\/\">IMDb<\/a>).  Don&#8217;t get them confused when you&#8217;re at the video store.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">John Sheppard\/Jack Shephard:<\/span>  <a href=\"http:\/\/gateworld.net\/omnipedia\/characters\/links\/sheppardjohn.shtml\">John<\/a> is the officer in charge of military operations on <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Stargate Atlantis<\/span>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/lostpedia.wikia.com\/wiki\/Jack_Shephard\">Jack<\/a> is the Doctor who makes bad decisions on <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Lost<\/span>.  And there are, apparently, way too many Jesus freaks naming TV characters these days.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the same vein as today&#8217;s &#8220;Writer&#8217;s Block&#8221; prompt on LiveJournal (&#8220;Same Name&#8221;), here are a few other people and things with similiar names&#8230; Ken Levine: There&#8217;s the TV comedy writer and the video game designer. I met the former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36,13,56,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-movies","category-tv","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}