Contents

Page numbers apply to Alog.

The Beginning    1
Dear Diary    2
Choose your Reality    3
A rose by any other name . . .    4
To you: imaginary, real & otherwise    7
I don’t mean to offend you, butt . . .    8
Nippon    9
As if I did not have enough boilerplate already    9
My Life: I thought    10
My Ancestors: 1871    10
Maternal    10
Paternal    11
Born in the Sixties: 1962    12
Home Alone: 1965    13
Middle School: 1973    17
Political Beast    17
The Writing on Empty portions    19
1977    19
What a Waste of Time    21
Reason 1: Make a Global Populist    22
Don’t reinvent the wheel    23
Reason 2: Zero Definition    24
Reason 3: Try to Publish This!    27
Reason 4: Practice    27
Reason 5: I made this up    27
Reason 6: Turn it off!    27
The Incubator    27
Defining the Incubator    27
Diagram 1: The Incubator    27
The Name Game    30
The name behind the name    31
Anonymity & Innocence    33
One Reason: Innocence is a lie    33
A second reason: Do you feel my words coming out of your mouth?    34
A third reason: stop confusing me!    38
A fourth reason: leveling the playing field    38
A fifth reason: make no mistake    38
Same game, different name    38
Training Day    39
What are you saying?    39
Not the kind of Roast I had in mind: 1978    41
School Days: 1981    42
Synchronicity: 1982    43
Sophomore Year    43
Shall we step out for a bit?  1986    49
The Old Country: 1987    50
What are we incubating? 1987    51
The Incubator Rules: 1988    53
Gracious, isn’t that a coincidence! 1989    55
Gonna be a lawyer: 1991    56
1L: 1992    56
Welcome to the House of the Rising Sun: 1993    57
Leave of Absence    58
2L: 1994    59
1995    60
Meeting Persistence, or lack thereof    62
3L    65
Newlyweds: NYC: 1996    67
More Writing on Empty: Image Guidance    69
Introduction    69
Affiliation    70
Diagram 2: Affiliation Product Flow Chart    71
Table 1: Affiliation Product Flow Chart Labels    71
Enculturation Process    71
Diagram 3: Enculturation Process Stages    71
Request Stage: step #1    72
Indicators    73
Recognition Stage: step #2    73
Connection Stage: step #3    74
No good deed goes unpunished    74
Sign here on the dotted telepathic line    75
Food for Thought    76
Confirmation Stage: step #4    76
Implementation, Reconnection or Bin: step #5    77
Left & Right, or is that Right & Left?    78
Re-initiation    79
Electric God(s)    80
Honeymoon    81
Welcome to the legal world: New York City: 1997    82
L.A. Law: Los Angeles: 1998    85
Writing on Empty: The Internet Bubble: 1998-1999    88
Law Games: Los Angeles: 1999    90
A Lesson in Ethics    91
Fencing with Paper Swords    93
A move: Los Angeles to Chesapeake    95
Resignation    96
Politics, media and other nonsense 2000    97
Persistence    99
California v2.0: new & improved with completely different glitches and bugs!    99
Introduction to Rutan & Tucker: Orange County: Very Public Law    100
Mind Games    101
Pharmaceuticals    103
Psychology and OriginSun women    103
Frankie    104
Commutation    104
Whatever you do, don’t talk politics    106
American computer game software    107
Is that a computer monitor on your desk, or a computer monitoring your desk?    108
Pocket PC    110
Privacy Games    112
Rutan to Asahi: Orange County to CapitalEast    113
A focus group of one    113
OriginSun Language Study at UCLA: 2001    115
Interviews    116
Show me the Work    117
Green Card Persistence    119
Asahi Law Offices    120
Rutan Redux    120
Writing on Empty: ATT & Corporation Q    121
Dining Out    123
Y?    123
More mind games that pass for practicing law    124
Paddy Foley’s    125
Nonpublic Law    126
Lunch Break    127
Attorney Supervision: Heisei 13: lucky number?    128
What’s in a name?    129
More lunch, meals and technophobia    129
Secretarial Musical Chairs    133
Video Games    134
Welcome!  When are you leaving?    136
Hostess Bar & Going Home    136
No present, no future, just now    138
Happy Fifth Anniversary: Los Angeles    141
Writing on Empty    141
AT&T    141
Taxi Driver    142
Taxi 1    142
Taxi 2    142
Taxi 3    144
‘Nuff with the taxi drivers    145
Retreat to Japan    145
Talking Politics . . . again    147
What the Dickens?    147
Geography 101    149
Are we on the same page?    150
Leaving Asahi    152
Radioactive    152
Nationalists like me    153
Violating a sovereign nation’s right to self-determination    154
One hand washing the other, and nobody gettin’ clean    156
Wha-cha-gonna-do    158
Man fight man!!!    160
Negative Deterrent    161
Capital District    162
Don’t fix that!    163
Not just another pretty face    163
Positive Reinforcement    165
Giving Notice    166
Events    167
The Middle East    168
Religion & Law    169
Japan & America    170
Persistence & Asa High    174
Is that 119 or 911?    176
Calling the Embassy . . .    176
Writing on Empty: Foreigner Games    177
Stringer    178
Visiting Dot    181
World Trade This    183
Strawberry Fields    185
Parachutes    186
9/11    187
God of War    188
Welcome to the Hotel California    189
Edo    190
Rutan Redux x 2    194
Saudi Arabia    196
More Foreigner Games    197
Writing on Empty    198
Tunnel in Time    199
Weak Sidney Chester MacIntyre    200
Repeater    200
What was that?    201
50 people in 500 years    203
Yamato: 2002    204
The Last Samurai    204
The Mormons    205
Second Date    206
Underemployed    209
The Practical Ethics Association    210
Squash    210
Drugs and medications    211
Shutting the window for The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up    214
Citizenship    214
By means of heart, transmit heart    215
Zazen    216
Not very academic    217
Labour    218
Yotsuya    218
Bossman    219
Postal privatisation    220
There is a reason that hill is covered in blood    221
Adventures in Legal Land    223
Aerospace & MountainCedar    224
I am a bit leery of O    225
More Embassy Games    225
The Wisdom of the Practical Ethics Fairness Society    227
Being niggered by red skins in AddProfitRiceRankNext    230
More Words    231
More Stories    234
The ’In’ Crowd    235
A little help from liar Y: but they never lied    236
More thread, but no needle    237
Phone Games    238
Da Chief    241
Changing of the guard’s guard    241
Incubator Training    242
Talking to myself: body language style    242
The Spirit of Japan    245
Novice    246
Report    247
Mak Allen    248
Who is your daddy?    248
Leaving Yamato    249
Writing on Empty: IslandDissemination    249
The Nationalists    251
Training: Tokyo: 2003    252
Capsule Hotel Project    252
Apple Crap    252
Back to Bill    253
A directory allotment    255
Da Globe: Tokyo & the Maldives    256
Globetrotter    257
Yahoo Café Training    258
Bolifushi Pleasure Resort    258
Ski Boat    259
Computer Monitoring    260
Divorce    261
Spectator Sport: 2004    262
Writing on Empty: money laundering    263
Foreshadowing    264
The Name Game, again    265
More Divorce    267
Judgment Day    269
Writing on Empty    269
Evergreen Language School April 2004    269
Police Investigations    271
Arrest & Detention    273
Appendices    1
Glossary    1
Translation Indices in Alphabetical Order    2
By Translation    2
By Transliteration    6
By Ideograph    10
By Alias    14

post to be added later

Explanatory text appears in Alog, but has not yet been posted to this b log. Links to this page:

1. “Y?”: Glossary shall be linked to working title: Y?
2. “experience” on More mind games that pass for practicing law shall be linked to working title: Hostess Bar
3. “Yagi” in Y? to Rutan Redux
4. “symbolism at Rutan” in Y? to American Computer Game Software

b log notes

Footnotes for the b log

1. 関西
2. 堂
3. 六本木
4. Mr. Masahiro Mitsuhashi (三橋 雅廣) former Diet Secretary in conversations with Allen:「陰」= “shadow”