Yup.
And I still have a direct line to Drudge, though I use it sparingly.
I have pestered him a lot about having someone staff the friggin’ site for breaking news at night and on weekends though.
Drudge won’t even answer my e-mails after I got on him ages ago. I was taking a Chem class at Montgomery College - Takoma Park back in the early 90’s (and doing the nasty with a hot Puerto Rican girl in the room, BTW), and he was still a clerk at the Seven-Eleven nearby. The last time I saw him, he rang me up for a 20 oz. coffee and a pack of Marlboro Lights. He was clearly a young man unhappy with his situation and had bigger things in mind. Who’da thunk it. Lesson: be nice to the person behind the cash register.