the iconic To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee — an audio reading / podcast

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, on audio, unfinished recording… this was really difficult to do. As you can see… when you listen to the audio recording, by clicking the play button on the soundcloud box right here at:

     a couple of weeks ago, Harper Lee’s second novel, “Go Set a Watchman” was “world-premiered” — it was reported to be the most anticipated book since the Harry Potter series. According to news reports and to historical data from her publishers, the “sequence” in the writing was not “chronological”: “Go Set a Watchman” was her first submitted novel, and her editor returned it with instructions to write the backstory instead … of when the principal character was a child.

    And the rest was …

 

42nd anniversary of the declaration of martial law (Sept. 21, 1972)

“Julian Makabayan” composed by Lutgardo Labad, from the movie “Julian Makabayan” (1979), later performed by Patatag in a live concert in 1984, recorded several years after that in the album “Nagbabagang Lupa” (“Smouldering Earth”, my translation w/ apologies), uploaded in the “Patatag” site in soundcloud; image derived from the same album, all used here non-commercially for academic purposes.  This song plays automatically… and you should be hearing it right about now…

Jinggoy Estrada’s arrest being served: plunder, probable cause, explained: Guide for Reporters

Jinggoy Estrada’s arrest being served: People vs. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr.,  et al for plunder, People vs. Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada for plunder,  probable cause, explained: Guide for Reporters

     (The audio annotation on the substance of the probable cause of the on-going service of arrest warrant is in the soundcloud track below —  no need to click, it’s on automatic play. The live media coverage by the traditional media is not providing  any content on the probable cause — so here is the track for that 🙂  )