The Compleat Record

of what? of this Web-site's complete historicocreative life, of course.

6th September 2024. Redesign finished! All-new and complete Tapilók-bángon live on the Internet.

July 2024. Redesign started. I can't recall the precise date at this point.

25th November 2024. Web-site established, principally for the purpose of republishing my interviews with Prof. Joma and Ka Marco, CPP spokesperson, from 2021. A complete archive of the site as it existed originally, i.e., prior to the redesign, is available on-line thanks to the Internet Archive's wonderful "Wayback Machine."

December 2021. What one could call the first iteration of Tapilók-bángon, or really its predecessor, went on-line: Ssu-hsiang, www.paochingming.neocities.org, the "Web-site of Mr. Pao Ching-ming"—no "Esq." yet, for I had yet to watch Better Call Saul. On Ssu-hsiang I published interviews, blog posts, and statements I wrote for Kabatáan Partylist, which was the first national-democratic organisation I ever joined. One early article that got moderately popular was about national Christmas-man José Mari Chan's alleged exploitation of child labourers and plantation workers as a big comprador-landlord involved principally in the sugar trade.

Some of my work was also republished on Red Lamp, a hub of "news, analysis, and opinions" about the revolutionary movement in the Philippines. It was run by comrade Arn Lou Lacia Mutia, nicknamed "Kaloy," up till his death on the 2nd March, 2022. He was widely admired as an organiser among the diaspora in the US. Hereunder I am reproducing the Baltimore/DMV chapter of the Malayà Movement's tribute to him:–

Today we say good bye to a beloved member of Malaya Movement DMV and founding member of Katarungan, DC (@katarungan_dc on Instragram).

Arn Lou Lacia Mutia, fondly called “Kaloy” passed away peacefully on March 2, 2022 after a long battle with cancer.

A celebration of his life was hosted today. With his passing we lose a fierce voice and pen who tirelessly worked for several decades to promote and raise awareness of the Filipino people’s struggle for genuine freedom and peace based on justice.

Even when his body was ailing, he continued to write and curate news on his website redlamp.net and share his latest articles on the Malaya Movement Baltimore chat group.

Rest in power, dear friend and kasama. Know the movement continues to push forward fueled and inspired by the stories of people like you who dedicated their lives to serve the people.

Before Red Lamp and before Ssu-hsiang, I had a page on Medium. Ssu-hsiang I took down sometime in the middle of 2022; at any rate, the last "capture" on the Wayback Machine is from June. The precise reason I forget, but it likely had something to do with how at that point I wasn't really writing anymore. It would take until October of 2023 for me to come out with something new: "Yúnukó," a poem of longing for my first boyfriend. And of course it would take until the month after that for me to come out with Tapilók-bángon, and almost another year thence for this redesign.

25th September 2020. Posted what I believe to be my first-ever blog post, "Beggars and the Myth of the Innate Inferiority of the Poor." My Web-site then was called 默想 Mo-hsiang—Ruminations. I don't know how exactly my Sinophilia started, but I do remember watching Michael Wood's The Story of China multiple times and liking it tremendously. In point of fact, the "Pao" in my name I took from a Qing-era salt merchant featured in one episode, 鮑志道 Bao Zhidao, or, in Wade-Giles (which I had a peculiar, reactionary predilection for), Pao Chih-tao. Partially because I didn't want to make it seem as if I actually was a Bao or a Pao, and partially also because I simply forgot which character it was exactly that the Romanised "Pao" represented, 鮑静明 became 宝静明 over time. As for the politicoïdeological content of that first blog post, it would perhaps help to know that my earliest conscious political influence was Kyle Kulinski: New Deal liberalism, "sceptic" atheism, &c., &c.