matt yglesias today notes that the new DC media blog is edited by garrett somebody, who once was editor-in-chief of the harvard daily newspaper at the same time matt was editor at the weekly newsmagazine. i followed matt's link through to a heeelarious article about how he once stole a foosball table from garrett's newspaper, or something. i chuckled, and then clicked through to matt's newspaper bio, just out of curiosity. and then i proceeded to FREAK THE FUCK OUT because in his headshot, matt looks EXACTLY LIKE A YOUNG TOMMY. EXACTLY. did i not say exactly? BECAUSE I MEANT THEY COULD BE FRIGGIN TWINS.

i wish i had a better picture of tommy at a younger age, like, circa, 1999 or 2000 or something because then you would see how TRULY BIZARRE IT IS, but this following comparison will have to do:

god decides to use unholy nature to freak me out

now, i find this so surprising because i obviously know tommy pretty well, and i know matt, too, though, um, not in the same sense or anything, but i do hang out with him and co. on a somewhat regular basis. and i have NEVER, ever seen even a fleeting glimpse of similarity between the two except they are fairly tall, have brown hair, glasses, an effusive nerdiness and a propensity to take terrible photos. and they buy their clothes almost exclusively from the gap. and they're both jewish. okay, not the last one. oh yeah, and somebody on kriston's site once saw a photo of them and thought they were twins.

perhaps there is something matt and tommy would like to share with us?