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▲''Last update: November 20, 2007.''
"Mdiamante" is the Wikipedia username for '''Matthew Diamante''', a [[San
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'''PUBLISHED WORKS'''
The arts section of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' printed
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2007▼
*In this May 25 letter to the ''Chronicle'', Matthew bemoans the failure of [[California Constitution|Repair California]]'s effort to call a state constitutional convention, and reprimands all three gubernatorial candidates for their uniform failures to engage with this vital and urgent matter. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/25/ED471DIROP.DTL]
*More than seven years after first trumpeting [[Philip Pullman]]'s ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' books in the San Francisco Chronicle, Matthew did so again on December 28, 2007. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/28/DDOHU52FV.DTL&hw=Matthew+Diamante&sn=001&sc=1000] Excised from the printed letter was a reference to the Vatican newspaper ''[[L'Osservatore Romano]]'' and a characterization of [[C.S. Lewis]]' [[Aslan]] as a "Christ-on-steroids" figure. The unedited submission can be read [[User:Mdiamante/Unedited writings#The valuable lessons of Golden Compass|here]].▼
*Matthew commented on a piece by Donna Freitas, Professor of Religion at Boston University, concerning theology in the book and film ''[[The Golden Compass]]'', in the December 3, 2007 [[Boston Globe]]. [http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2007/12/03/dark_materials_series_is_no_narnia/]▼
2008
*In the wake of the [[United States general elections, 2008|fall elections]]' Democratic gains, Matthew argued that Congress should impeach and convict Bush and Cheney in the December 1 ''[[Tufts Daily]]''. [http://www.tuftsdaily.com/op-ed/congress_should_impeach_and_convict_bush_and_cheney]
* Granted, a YouTube video hardly qualifies as "publishing", but this short film from the Fall of 2004, uploaded this October 3, may nevertheless amuse: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft0r8nqJ-KM]▼
*In November 2008, Matthew directed the Tufts 3Ps Workshop production ''Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street Adventures'', his own adaptation of [[The Adventure of the Dying Detective|two]] [[The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton|of]] [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s [[Canon of Sherlock Holmes|short stories]]; the ''Daily'' profiled it on November 7. [http://www.tuftsdaily.com/1.899584]
*Matthew wrote a September 15 letter to the ''Daily'' assailing two right-wing op eds; an unedited version is available [[User:Mdiamante/Unedited_writings#A_September_.2708_letter_to_the_Tufts_Daily|here]].[http://www.tuftsdaily.com/1.745980]
*Before Obama clinched the nomination, Matthew touted former Vice President Gore as a possible compromise tiebreaker in a February 12 letter to the ''Daily''. [http://media.www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2008/02/12/OpEd/Letter.To.The.Editor-3203592.shtml]
▲2007
▲*More than seven years after first trumpeting [[Philip Pullman]]'s ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' books in the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', Matthew did so again on December 28, 2007. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/28/DDOHU52FV.DTL&hw=Matthew+Diamante&sn=001&sc=1000] Excised from the printed letter was a reference to the Vatican newspaper ''[[L'Osservatore Romano]]'' and a characterization of [[C.S. Lewis]]' [[Aslan]] as a "Christ-on-steroids" figure. The unedited submission can be read [[User:Mdiamante/Unedited writings#The valuable lessons of Golden Compass|here]].
▲*Matthew commented on a piece by Donna Freitas, Professor of Religion at Boston University, concerning theology in the book and film ''[[The Golden Compass]]''
▲* Granted, a YouTube video hardly qualifies as "publishing", but this very short
* Film critic [[Roger Ebert]] responded to a question of Matthew's in his September 20 ''Answer Man'' column. [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070920/ANSWERMAN/709200316/1023]
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* Matthew phoned in to the KQED radio program ''Forum with Michael Krasny'' on August 24; the subject was a right-wing attempt to redirect half of California's Electoral College votes. Matthew's call appears at 41:49. [http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R708240900]
* Matthew was credited in the May 20, 2007 Commencement issue of the ''Daily'' as the director of that April's one-act play ''[[Hidden in this Picture]]''
*Matthew contributed an editorial on progressive values in popular culture to the March 2007 inaugural issue of Tufts Democrats magazine ''The Forum''. It can be found on page 16 of this [http://www.tuftsdemocrats.com/system/files/forum-final-s07.pdf .pdf file]; or read (''sans'' typos) [[User:Mdiamante/Unedited writings#Politics by Other Means|here]].
* A March 9 letter to the ''Daily'' concerning a fellow Jumbo's too-loosely worded assertion that "Roosevelt allowed Hitler to gain power and systematically murder over 11 million people." [http://media.www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2007/03/08/Editorial/Letter.To.The.Editor-2764643.shtml]
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* A letter to the ''Daily'' critiquing a fluff piece on a right-wing speaker. Published September 29. [http://www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2006/09/29/Editorial/Letter.To.The.Editor.journalist.Mccain.Despite.06.Edge.Corruption.Also.Dogs.Dem-2316535.shtml?norewrite200610271324&sourcedomain=www.tuftsdaily.com]
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▲* A ''[[The Tufts Daily|Daily]]'' editorial praising the seven-year run of ''[[The West Wing (TV series)|The West Wing]]'', and asking "what's next?" for left-wing entertainment. Published May 1. [http://www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2006/05/01/Viewpoints/Ode-To.An.American.Dream-1897189.shtml?norewrite200610271328&sourcedomain=www.tuftsdaily.com]
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* The ''[[The Tufts Daily|Tufts Daily]]'' ran a profile of Matthew on November 28. Though not the most accurate piece, it's an amusing read: [http://www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2005/11/28/Features/Aspiring.Filmmaker.Turns.Room.Into.Museum-1492195.shtml?norewrite200612072215&sourcedomain=www.tuftsdaily.com]
* A year and a half or so after it was written, Matthew's biographical profile of a [[Putney School]] teacher appeared in the Spring 2005 ''Putney Post'': [http://www.putneyschool.org/post/pdf/spring2005/abijah.pdf]
2000
* In my first published work (in the June 27 ''San Francisco Chronicle''), I called the first three ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books "funny and exciting" yet found them lacking "in terms of quality," championing [[Philip Pullman]]'s ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' and [[Lloyd Alexander]]'s ''[[The Chronicles of Prydain]]'' instead. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/06/27/DD45043.DTL&hw=Matthew+Diamante&sn=002&sc=187]
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Some Wikipedia articles I've created:
* [[Agincourt Carol]]: One of the 15th century's best-known songs.
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* "[[Spanish Ladies]]": One of, if not ''the'', greatest sea shanties ever known to old salts.
* "[[The Course of Empire (paintings)|The Course of Empire]]", a five-part series of paintings by [[Thomas Cole]] in the 1830s.
* "[[San Francisco Bound]]": a 1913 song by [[Irving Berlin]].
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