February 26, 2002
I don't quite get
I don't quite get it. I am smarter, fitter, and bolder than my potbellied brother ever could hope to be, yet he gets all the fame, fortune, and glory, not to mention Peach's heart. If only I was the first player in Super Mario Bros... things could have been different. Maybe I can make a comeback, now that I finally have my own game.. but probably not. After all, I'm just Luigi.
What Super Mario Bros character are you?
Yeah, so I didn't win today in either election. I have some things to say, that I'm holding back because I'm not sure where they're coming from; whether or not they're genuine concerns for the Masque, or whether they're just bitter diatribes from someone who's lost (in elections, in love, in games...) too many times. If you want to hear my criticisms, let me know, and we'll talk.
So, if you see me acting bitterly in the next couple of days, do me a favor and yell at me for it. I've finally realized that life's too short to be petty and see the lost opportunities: in some ways, the Masque has lost me, and I've lost the masque, so it's not worth crying about it. I'll continue on in the masque as time passes, and it'll all blow over: its an okay eboard, I guess, some good people got on, and theater still fuels me...
Other than that, a pretty normal day.
I uploaded the first pages of my sitcom script today. The premise of the show is that it's a sitcom set within the wacky world of community theater. The major character, James, is a college student, majoring in theater with high ideals of how theater should be done. He's set up on a bet by his friends at the college to turn the local theater group around. This is where hilarity ensues. The rest of the characters play into it in some way - Rosita, the 60 year old former Broadway star who has failed miserably and now does community theater to remember the old days...Greg, the wacky technical guy with a good heart, yet with disconnected technical ides that always seem to go wrong...Jenny, James' love interest...Tom, the director who came with the same high ideals that James once had and now realizes that it's fun just to do theater with such an interesting group of people...and others, who I haven't met yet 
You can read it here...Feel free to let me know what you think.
Anyhow, I'm off to get cheered up somehow. Later, all.
-matt
"He failed in business in '31. He was defeated for state legislator in '32.He tried another business in '33. It failed. His fiancee died in '35. He had a nervous breakdown in '36. In '43 he ran for congress and was defeated. He tried again in '48 and was defeated again. He tried running for the Senate in '55. He lost. The next year he ran for Vice President and lost. In '59 he ran for the Senate again and was defeated. In 1860, the man who signed his name A. Lincoln, was elected the 16th President of the United States. The difference between history's boldest accomplishments, and its most staggering failures is often, simply, the diligent will to persevere."
from - here.