Please allow me to introduce myself...

...I'm a man of wealth and taste...

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So, hello blogverse. I'm Benny Ortiz (Pen name: I actually value my privacy). I'm a twenty-something English Lit major currently attending classes at Cal Poly. I'm an inspiring professor/critic/author/whatever the hell a English Lit major will bring along. I figure I might as well get all the big questions out of the window so that when you call out "Bias!", you know why.

1. Political affiliation: independent conservative (Voted for McCain, disagree with both the Tea Party and Arizona Immigration law, huge fan of The Daily Show, Gov't oversight is necessary to keep the Con Men out, believe that both Private and Public sectors provide essentials that the other can't, respect gays and lesbians but disagree with the lifestyle.)
   
   
2. Hobbies: video games, anime, writing, comics casually (huge Batman fan).
   
   
3. Genre likes: Seinen anime (Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Black Lagoon, et. all), slice-of-life ( BECK Mongolian Chop Squad, The Wonder Years, et all), Crime Fiction (Law and Order), Noir, Cyberpunk, Westerns, Desert Punk & post-apocalypse (Fallout), casual Fantasy fan, political satire (The Daily Show), animation (South Park, Futurama) .
   
   
4. Videogame likes: FPS (Valve junkie) RPG's (Fallout, Pokemon, Torchlight ), WoW, League of Legends, Castlevania, turn-based strategy games (Advance Wars, Fire Emblem), PC and DS gamer.
   
   
5. Genre dislikes: intra-apocalypse (Eva, et all), mecha (Gundam, et all), Harem (Love Hina et all), Michael Bay (The Devil), reality TV. etc.
   
   
6. Videogame dislikes: RTS' (can't micromanage worth a damn), most JRPG's (hate excessive random battles and grinding up the wazoo)
   
   
7. Generation identity: child of the 90's (grew up on Animaniacs, Batman the Animated series, Pinky and the Brain, Looney Tunes, Pokemon Silver Version, etc.)
   
   
8. Ethnicity: Hispanic (Long story short: huge contradiction. Conservative, don't like spicy food, don't know any Spanish. Get use to it: I've got a whole lot more)
   
   
9. Religion: non-practicing Christian. Respectful of all religions
   
   
10. View on life: realist (hope for the best, prepare for the worst)
    
    
11. Favorite sites: TV Tropes, That Guy With The Glasses, The Escapist.

...Well I think that does it for now. If I remember anything I'll add to it. I think it's important to establish who I am up front so that we can all get acquainted.

I first got into blogging upon a professor's suggestion that I practice my critical skills thru a blog. So here I am. Nice to meet all of you.

For future post...A Cowboy Bebop retrospective critical analysis. For next post: an explanation of my critical style: structuralism.

Until then, cut your teeth on the Wikipedia article on structuralism