Is Matt Haber's brain necessary?

We continue to be amazed by what lurks within the brain of Matt Haber, aka “The Media Encyclopedia,” whose impressive (nay, savant-ish) powers of recall dredge up long-forgotten or otherwise overlooked items in order to effortlessly make a connection with something current. Did you ever see “Rain Man?” Seriously, it’s something like that.

Case in point: his recent entry from the New York Observer‘s Media Mob, wherein he somehow manages to find a new angle in the whole looky-here-Maureen-Dowd-wrote-a-book! story, noticing the unmistakable similarities between the lovingly rendered buttocks on MoDo’s redheaded cover doppelganger and the fetching, curvacious young thing straphanging on the cover of the 1995 New Yorker Fiction Issue.

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