Last update: November 20, 2007.
"Mdiamante" is the Wikipedia username for Matthew Diamante, a San Francisco-raised student current pursuing an undergraduate degree at Tufts University.
PUBLISHED WORKS
The arts section of the San Francisco Chronicle printed a letter of Matthew's on June 27, 2000. Some other published works:
2007
- Matthew wrote a review of Macbeth, directed by Rupert Goold and starring Patrick Stewart, for the November 12 issue of the London Student. The LS web site seems a shambles, however, so you'll have to take my word for this.
- Granted, a YouTube video hardly qualifies as "publishing", but this short film from the Fall of 2004, uploaded on October 3, may nevertheless amuse: [1]
- Film critic Roger Ebert responded to a question of Matthew's in his September 20 Answer Man column. [2]
- 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. [3]
- 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. The show was written by The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin. [4]
- Funny: Tufts' right-wing near-tabloid The Primary Source quoted Matthew twice this Spring ([5], [6]). The second quote, however, features two sentences unaccompanied by a crucial third, thus making the cited "example" rather opaque.
- 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." [7]
- President 43 meets Agent 007 in a February 22 Daily editorial. [8]
- Matthew was quoted in a January 22 Daily News story on the state of political expression amongst today's collegiates. [9]
2006
- 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. [10]
- A letter to the Daily concerning corporate infotainment and military service. Published November 8. [11]
- A Daily editorial excoriating the Republican Congress and stressing the importance of the 2006 midterm elections. Published October 26. [12]
- 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. [13]
- A letter to the Daily critiquing a fluff piece on a right-wing speaker. Published September 29. [14]
- An analysis of the political implications of summer of 2006's blockbuster films for the Observer. The published essay [15], which appeared in the September 29 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. [16]
2005
- The Tufts Daily ran a profile of Matthew on November 28. Though not the most accurate piece, it's an amusing read: [17]
- A history of Zorro, written for The Tufts Observer. Published November 11. [18]
- 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: [19]
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
Wikiality
- An archived version of the Wikipedia article "Earth": [21]
- An archived version of the Wikipedia article "United States" labeling the nation a "federal empire." Funny. [22]
- Uncyclopedia: Wow. Just wow. (Painfully hip Wiki assesment here)
- A list of actors who have played a President of the United States. What? No John Tyler?!
Blogs
- Paleo-Future: An excellent blog that looks back "into the future that never was."
- The Times they Aren't a-Changing: Old and Busted: there's nothing new under the sun. New Hotness: proof of this is blog form.