Romo-sexual … or Romo-gelding?

So I’m jumping from blog to blog to blog checking out all the Romo-mania when I stumble across some startling news:

Silverman added: “It’s not just Romo’s swagger either; it’s his penis. Romo is allegedly hung like Barbaro, in such a cartoonish fashion that he actually has been known to tuck his penis into his left knee pad. It has led to a change in coach Bill Parcells’ blocking scheme, forcing the Tuna to add an extra blocker on Romo’s blind side.”
welcome to the bandwagon

Wait — that’s not the startling part.

So I follow the trail back, thinking I’ll link to the audacious source of the news only to find that, while Steve Silverman does refer to Tony Romo’s “swagger” (There’s a certain swagger that Tony Romo brings with him every place he goes. and “He’s always had the swagger,” inside linebacker Bradie James said.) the fact is, the cause of said swagger, his penis, IS NOT THERE ANY MORE.

His penis is MISSING.

Believe me — I combed that article thoroughly, first scanning then reading then rereading, determined to find the penis, but it was not there.

Somebody edited Tony Romo’s penis!

(I told you it was startling.)

I’m not sure whether to be outraged or relieved, because while I’m thinking Tony would rather have it back, surely we need that extra blocker freed up to play his position…?

In other news…. or another part of the same news –

Will you idiots get a freaking clue?!?

Everybody keeps comparing Romo to Tom Brady. TOM BRADY! Just because Brady was Bledsoe’s backup, and then Bledsoe got injured and Brady became a star, and now Romo was Bledsoe’s backup, and Bledsoe got injured and Romo is becoming a star?

People.

Please.

USE YOUR HEADS.

This isn’t about Tom Brady, who I’m sure is a very nice fellow. But Brady? You think Dallas is looking for the “next Tom Brady” as our saviour, our second coming? As if we should care who Tom Brady is, was or will be?

Heresy!

Anybody who has been around Dallas for awhile will look at the admittedly ridiculous picture on the “bandwagon” link above and have an epiphany:

We don’t need no stinkin’ New England Yankee Patriot QB backup-to-stardom legend for OUR second coming. Hell no.

If Romo is the real thing, if he is the Real Second Coming –

Say three Hail Marys and four Our Fathers and burn incense in thanksgiving!

If we are lucky — nay, if we are worthy — he is the True and Real Second Coming of Captain Comeback himself, who went from backup to Super Bowl MVP in one year.

And while you’re at it, light candles to St. Tom for pulling some strings with The Man Upstairs to arrange it.

Alleluia, amen!

(And oh yeah. Be on the lookout for an oversized penis that must have fallen to an editor’s knife. I’m pretty sure Tony wants it back.)

In the name of science–

Link to this blog entry.

I did it. You can, too.

Some poor grad student (or somebody masquerading as grad student, or somebody saying “just say I’m a grad student,” I get confused) is measuring the “speed of meme.” The results will be reported in some scientific study or something. Or maybe just at a panel at the MLA.

Just go there and look. You’ll figure it out.

I almost did.

Holidailies are back!

Starting Friday, December 1: holidailies

Check it out. They’ve room for a few more, last I heard! I started my blog a year ago, just to finally be able to participate.

You’re just too good to be true.

I need you, baby.

Kinda makes ya wanta dance, huh? A love song for Romosexuals.

More “stuff”

So, GTD is about getting rid of “stuff.”

And when I attacked the stuff in my office, I got rid of incredible amounts of stuff. But it seems that I also just rearranged some of it. Like, all these “collection devices” that I stuck in the back of a desk drawer.

Through the years I’ve bought more than I can remember. These are the ones that turned up when I cleared the decks early this year. They all had info in them, and all had mostly blank pages. I guess I never could find one when I needed one. I actually recall buying one in Austin at the AFF, and another on a storm chase when we dropped into a little place in rural Nebraska and I needed something to write on. Not knowing what to do with them, I assigned them a place in the far back of deep drawer, and there they’ve stayed.

I didn’t think a lot about them until the question came up yet again on one or the other GTD email lists — why a moleskine?

Well, it’s a cult, and sometimes it’s fun to be part of cult.

It’s got a cool history and sometimes it’s fun to buy a piece of that and pretend you’re one of the cool kids like Hemingway and his crowd.

It’s very practical — the elastic band holds it closed so it doesn’t end up all curly-paged and messed up like many other notebooks, and it has a ribbon bookmark and an envelope in the back that is handy for stashing receipts, carrying a bit of extra money, holding 3×5s, whatever you want to use it for.

But for me? The simple answer is, I use it. I use the moleskine in a way I never used the others. Meaning, I have it with me, I write stuff in it, I now have more written pages than blanks, I use it.

In fact, I’m sure I have more info and notes in my moleskine that I’ve been using less than a year than I have in all the notebooks I’ve bought over the past ten years, only a fraction of which are here.

(I know, it’s really ridiculous, but I couldn’t figure out which pic to use so I used them all, even the fuzzy drawer one.)

David Allen says your tools should bring you pleasure. Well, using the moleskine brings me pleasure. So I use it.

But more than that, it’s the way I use it, and for that I have to thank David Allen. If I’d had his system maybe I’d have used one of the earlier notebooks. But I didn’t and so we’ll never know.

And that’s what I finally realized tonight. I need to get these out of my drawer. The only reason they’re still in there is because I have stuff written in them “I might need someday.” Well, hell, that’s what my files are for. So I’m going to go through, process the info in them the same way I do with my moleskine, and once it’s filed, I’ll rip out the pages and give the notebooks to somebody else, maybe my friend’s daughter who might have fun drawing and writing in them.

Then they will be gone, the info will be where I can get to it when I need it, and I’ll have room for some of the other “stuff” I haven’t let escape my office yet.

P.S. I just found this — as if having a pocket/envelope in the back to tuck stuff wasn’t enough, here’s somebody who has created a pocket for a pencil! Go ahead — click it. You’ll love it, plus very nice picture tutorial on how to make your own.