I'm sure he did - the story that pointed to this older item was a "best of 2001" sort of thing that included his own byline.
He says that the wierd and wacky news went away for a few weeks after 9/11, and then by mid-October they started up again. Doesn't sound like someone who's not working stories!
It's interesting because I saw the same thing - there weren't many IotDs that were worthy for a few weeks, and then they started to trickle in again, and now they're plentiful.
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