* I’ve set the ScribbleLive program to automatically follow Natasha Korecki (Sun-Times) and Stacy St. Clair (Tribune), who are in the Blagojevich courtroom, and I’ve added a few more Tweets as background. I’ll add others to the live feed while I write my Sun-Times column for tomorrow. As of 1:40, the court was still on break after Blagojevich choked up on the stand, but it’ll resume soon…

* Natasha Korecki’s web updates through the crying break…

* Blagojevich lawyers: Prosecution was barred from asking Jackson about Lottery

* Blagojevich takes the stand

* Blagojevich testimony: ‘I’m here today to tell you the truth‘

* Blagojevich compares himself to big-dreaming dad

* Blagojevich says he sounds like ‘an effin’ jerk‘ on tape

* Blagojevich: ‘I had a man-crush on Alexander Hamilton’: Rod Blagojevich’s testimony continues, bordering at times on the absurd.

* Blagojevich: I trusted law school roommate Lon Monk ‘infinitely’

* Blagojevich chokes up when he talks of meeting Patti; judge calls a lunch break

* Tribune live web coverage is here. Ward Room’s tweets are here. Susan Berger’s Tweets are here (my ScribbleLive package only allows me to follow two Tweeters at a time) , and her web coverage is here. Her morning wrapup…

We heard about his first job as a shoe shine boy. How it taught him “life lessons to get ahead and do good.” And how he flunked drafting.

It took 25 minutes of this for us just to get to 1974. Then we heard how his dad worked on the Alaskan Pipeline as janitor. And we heard an emotional Rod as he said his parents would do anything for him. He too went to Alaska in 1976 to make money for college. And he pointed out how years later - the week after his arrest he would meet Sarah Palin and talk about his experience in her neck of the woods. We heard too how Rod’s dad “was someone who lost everything”. How he fought the Nazis and was a prisoner of war.

We heard a choked up Rod say that his dad never lived to see him elected. And how his mother was ahead of her time suggesting he read books about powerful women like Claire Barton and Florence Nightingale.

We heard how he liked college. Was an A student. And the most significant day? August 16, 1977- the day Elvis died. We learned too about his Aunt Helen. That he really liked her. She was his mother’s sister. And also about Ms. Dibble - his teacher that taught Shakespeare. She died of breast cancer or uterine cancer. He was sad about that. And he said a prayer for her.