Lead Character in 2012

This is over three weeks overdue but Lead Character would like to greet everyone a Happy New Year.

Yes, perhaps this would not have been as tardy if Lead Character greeted everyone with a Chinese New Year sentimentality, but Lead Character is neither Chinese nor sentimental. Well, perhaps not completely. Lead Character looks a little Chinese when he's sleepy or drunk, and most especially when he's sleepy and drunk at the same time. And he's kind of sentimental, especially when he decides to finally regroup and think about things that he is to expect this year.

5. Follow a clearer career path. Nope, Lead Character has not documented anything here about what he really wants to do in life. But that's because he doesn't know what it is exactly. All he knows is that it involves an Oscar statuette and $1B.

4. Get inked. He now has the design, yes. But not the body part for it yet. Well, he knows which body part, it's just not ideally formed enough yet. Yes, yes, dammit, he wants a tattoo on his belly. What does his belly look like right now? You don't want to know. And if you do, you shouldn't.

3. Lose weight. Not exactly for aesthetics purposes. He doesn't need aesthetics (ha ha!). This is solely for the tattoo (ha ha!).

2. Write more. Get published again. Send an entry to the Palanca awards. Win or lose, it doesn't really matter. At least one blog entry per day to start with. Ambitious? Well, if others can do it, there's no reason why a Renaissance man (ha ha!) like Lead Character can't. Well, there is one reason: Procrastination. Embarrasingly, Lead Character's affair with Procrastination has now bordered on sexual.

1. The one thing why all those four things are expected this year. They're all for this first one. Later this year, maybe October, maybe November. You'll see, you'll see.

Lead Character Is a Kid Who Doesn't Fit In, Among Other Things

By admission of Lauren Leto, creator of this very neat site Texts from Last Night, Lead Character is a kid who doesn't fit in, a smart geek, a workaholic seeking validation, and at the same time a girl who keeps journals whose significant other grabs him (or her?) under the table in order to shut him (or her?) up whenever someone else at a dinner says something absolutely ridiculous and wrong.

Lead Character is thankful that by being stereotyped by his favorite authors, he now knows more about himself.

Merry Christmas, everyone! Lead Character is not a Jesus person, but is thankful nonetheless for the celebration of Christmas.

(Lauren Leto should also point out that if you love Richard Dawkins and J.D. Salinger at the same time, you are a non-Jesus person who enjoys Christmas.)

Who Is Lead Character?

Lead Character is an ageless underachiever in dire need of an epiphany. His semi-fictional life was first chronicled when he turned twenty-two. However, the first official episode (the Pilot, so to speak), which takes place when Lead Character is already twenty-five years old, was launched on April 26th, 2008 in a Multiply.com blog. The episode received generally good reviews and the ratings were decent enough for a followup episode.

On September 14th, 2008, after losing Php300 in the casino, the creator of The Lead Character Chronicles decided to give the show its own portal. Hence this site. At the inception of this separate and dedicated portal for The Lead Character Chronicles, three episodes (excluding the previously mentioned "turning twenty-two" episode) have already appeared, the third one being a two-parter. Those three previous episodes will be reposted here to officially launch The Lead Character Chronicles, a blog-slash-TV series that critics claim to be a genre on its own.