Something irrelevant I noticed a few months ago. Allan Johnston and Allan Johnson have their birthdays on the same day. I swear.
Speaking about coincidences, I think Murakami’s got it right again:

Maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds of coincidences are happening all around us, all the time, but most of them don’t attract our attention. It’s like fireworks in the daytime. You might hear a faint sound, but even if you look up in the sky you can’t see a thing. But if we’re really hoping something may come true it may become visible, like a message rising to the surface.

A Dumb and Pointless Tale- Episode 5

“But what kind of note would grab a prince’s attention? It couldn’t be a confession, or even a love poem, as he was getting hundreds of these. How about a very interesting story?
Hardly, as this was not your typical moronic prince. He loved books, had met the world’s best authors, and even published some stuff himself. Besides, what kind of story would fit on a pocket-note? She’d have to do better than that. Or perhaps she was just ruined from the start.” (tbc)