Whither Twins?

I meant to write in my dumb blog every day during my vacation but spent the day yesterday with an old friend (& later, with her new boyfriend, who is a newish friend) so between my sunburned face & the beer I consumed last night, I never quite made it to a computer.  That was nice.

Anyway, I had nothing of real value to say so I would've just said "Today was nice."  So pretend this is a Wednesday & you've accidentally stumbled onto this dumb blog, & here is what is says: Today was nice.

I did want to stop in & remind you that tomorrow from 7-9am (the regular time) Macy & Maria will be hosting Self Help Radio with a show about twins.  I like their show a lot - it's regularly on Sundays at 2pm on RFL - & asked them personally to do the show.  They had wanted to fake-interview me like I fake-interview lots of folks (including them a couple of times), but our schedules didn't work before I took off.  I'm sure they're going to be great.

They have chosen the theme "twins" because the two of them finish each other's sentences, say the same thing simultaneously, & (for all the hell I know) dream the same dreams.  They are not twins, & I think just met in college, but they're obviously close in a way that really, only people in their twenties &/or real twins can be.  So it should be a blast!

Interestingly, I have a little brother, who's a year younger than I am, & growing up it was said we resembled one another.  People would often ask if we were twins.  We weren't, & as time went by it became increasingly evident that we weren't very much like each other, even if we did kind of have similar faces.  Unlike Macy & Maria, who want to celebrate their closeness, my little brother & I began to resent anyone who asked if we were twins.  Which might have bred a little resentment for each other in us - as if the other were deliberately trying to look/be/act like that in order to sabotage the individual self we were both sure we were.  Naturally, we had a lot of similarities - we were related, for fuck's sake - but I have a sense we grew apart in some way because we were regularly thought to be so close.  Like most of my brothers, I haven't spoken to my little brother in years.  There's no reason to think this aspect of our childhood was responsible for that, but it sure didn't help.

I have twin nephews who seem close, however.  I wonder if Macy & Maria will talk about this sort of thing tomorrow?  I will try to listen & find out - you do the same!