It’s a frightfully busy month out in DrudgeBlogLand, with Lance changing diapers and me excising my own disposable waste from my book manuscript. To tie you over for the interim, I assembled some random quotes from Drudge Radio that I jotted down all those weeks I was multitasking.

A “commonplace book”, by the way, was a common compilation in merrye olde Renaissance England before the days of floppy disks and tape recorders. When you wanted to remember something…(fill in the blank here). You can bet on it that Shakespeare’s Globe Theater was filled with voracious “thought collectors,” busily scribbling pearls of wit onto their books.

Think you know what has or would come out of Matt Drudge’s mouth? Quiz yourself with What Do You Really Know About Drudge, Anyway?

“I’m in that wonderful Drudge cynical mood.”

“News is where you find it. Don’t you agree, you Internet pioneer, you?

“I find comfort in historical context – that we’ve been through this before.”

“Blog – a nasty, demeaning, obnoxious word for people who dare to publish without a symbol on the New York Stock Exchange. Not part of the clique, not part of the crowd. Marginalizing individuals on the Internet with words that sound stupid.”

“They wanna call us blogs, we call them dogs.”

“The state bird is a crane, here, down in Southern Florida…”

“Here I am, paying 35% taxes, plus plus plus plus …”

“Just one analysis from one greasy web monkey on a Sunday night.”

(After a compliment): “Well, uh, thank you, thank you for the suckup there, but…”

“That’s apples and oranges, or, that’s gefilte fish and horseradish…”

“The whores are in the press room instead of the oval office.”

(On Michael Jackson): “If you’re going to besmirch him…if you’re going to put someone away the rest of his life, the accuser should face the accused.”

“I’ll never forget the time 60 minutes came after me and I said ‘I’ve got mace.’ They left me alone after that.”

“I could have sold out a long time ago. I could have had a seat in Davos…I want to build a foundation, some roots…I want to build something real, not something in the air, not something that builds a buzz.”

“I just bought a new Mustang…I am trying to save the American dream…Buy American and buy something that are based on something besides Earth Google maps…And all of you driving around in Toyotas, shame on you…Made in America, folks! This is what is going to get us through…Every auto I’ve ever owned has been American – because I have a heart!… Why wouldn’t you choose America first?”

(Claims a Senator told him on the phone that he thinks Osama is in Iran.)

(On Google stock): “Buy shares in a company that you believe in…There’s no way it’s more stable than Boeing. The Internet’s too new, it’s too unstable.”

“I spent a fantastic week out in Las Vegas at the Wyn. It is like a fantastic dream town…and it breaks my heart, because this is one of the best places on earth.”

(On Dan Rather): “I think he’s a patriot, I really do.”

(On the media): “The real stinky fishbowl”

(He’d leave the country if Hillary’s elected because) “she would tax the hell out of my tax bracket. I’m not some Alec Baldwin.”

“I’ve been getting my MP3s at allofmp3.com”

Random notes (not verbatim):

(MD and Donna Brazile are friends. He’s her home page.)

(He claims to have three IM screens open during the radio show.)