Last update: 2/09/07.
"Mdiamante" is the Wikipedia username for Matthew Diamante, a San Francisco-raised student current pursuing an undergraduate degree at Tufts University.
PUBLISHED WORKS
Matthew had a letter to the arts section of the San Francisco Chronicle published on June 27, 2000. Other published works of his include:
- Matthew was quoted in a January 22, 2007 Daily News story on the state of political expression amongst today's collegiates. [1]
- Yet another Daily editorial, this time accusing President and Governors Bush of complicity in "a conspiracy of Constitutional negligence" with regard to voting rights. Published December 6, 2006. [2]
- A letter to the Daily concerning corporate infotainment and military service. Published November 8, 2006. [3]
- A Daily editorial excoriating the Republican Congress and stressing the importance of the 2006 midterm elections. Published October 26, 2006. [4]
- A Daily editorial in which the Electoral College is the target of some floccinaucinihilipilification, and the National Popular Vote Campaign is praised. Published October 12, 2006. [5]
- A letter to the Daily critiquing a fluff piece on a right-wing speaker. Published September 29, 2006. [6]
- An analysis of the political implications of summer of 2006's blockbuster films for the Observer. The published essay [7], which appeared in the September 29, 2006 issue, was heavily edited. A complete version of the essay can be found here.
- A Daily editorial praising the seven-year run of The West Wing, and asking "what's next?" for left-wing entertainment. Published May 1, 2006. [8]
- The Tufts Daily ran a profile of Matthew on November 28, 2005. Though not the most accurate piece, it's an amusing read: [9]
- A history of Zorro, written for The Tufts Observer. Published November 11, 2005. [10]
WIKIPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
Some Wikipedia articles I've created:
- List of important dates in fiction: Sadly, this article was deleted from the Wikipedia, but its lives on here as a subset of my userpage.
- Agincourt Carol: One of the 15th century's best-known songs.
- "The Ash Grove": A beautiful Welsh folk song.
- "Spanish Ladies": One of, if not the, greatest sea shanties ever known to old salts.
- "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.
- "The Fountain in the Park": a well-known ditty nobody fully remembers.
- Hidden in this Picture: a one-act play by Aaron Sorkin.
MISCELLANEOUS THINGS I LIKE
- An archived version of the Wikipedia article "Earth": [11]