Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Colorful Conservative, Civilized Barbarian, Coconut Cowboy
Location	Northridge, California
Introduction	I love tradition, ignore convention, teach English, dream in Spanish, love women and men equally, believe in Christ, and spend much of my life working through these multiple contradictions. Sarah Palin delights me. To my daughter, I'm just "Dad." Also, my real name is Robert Oscar Lopez. I am still trying to figure out what to do with Coco, who helped me out of the closet and now doesn't have a clear role to play. Should take a contract out on him?
Interests	Conservatism, Tradition, Faith, Christ, Sexuality, Patriotism, Phillis Wheatley, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, William Wells Brown, Walt Whitman, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Reinaldo Arenas
Favorite movies	Musicals: 1776 and The Music Man (which are really the same allegory), Action: Inception and Aliens, Hitchcock: Rope, Shakespeare Adaptation: Merchant of Venice, Romance: Brokeback Mountain and Gone with the Wind, Thriller: Seven (1994), Sci-Fi: Dark City, Straight Porn: Vivid and Hustler Video, Gay Porn: Dark Alley and Treasure Island Media
Favorite music	After The Colorful Conservative is published I will be editing another manuscript I have completed which is called The Meaning of Life in 50 Songs. This is about the songs I find most irresistible but not necessarily my favorites.
Favorite books	Book of all time: Aeneid, Novel: The Confidence-Man, Poetry/Epic: Leaves of Grass, Play: The Escape, Satire: Juvenal II, Biography: Nixon Agonistes, Autobiography: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (as secretly forged by Mark Twain), Invective: The 2nd philippic by Cicero and Guilty by Ann Coulter, Short Story Collection: Piazza Tales, Polemic: The American Democrat by Cooper and The Assault by Reinaldo Arenas

How tall would you be if you had never cut your fingernails?

Ask Juno, my M-16 from Ft. Leonard Wood. She was #86.