joe romm, of washington d.c., was a frequent contributor from the contest's second year until a gradual decline in his participation from around 2006. his entries appeared 343 times, including 16 winning entries, and he was the first "rookie of the year". among his submissions was the winning entry of what was later declared to be the best overall week's results of the style invitational's first decade. (a discarded first draft of some famous line: "we hold these truths to be, like, du-uuh.")