One of my j school professors said that if you write a question lede or a question headline, the typical reader will go "who cares" and move on.

This is a photo of a page in a book about the history of Denville, NJ. The photo shows a young man in a union uniform shortly after the end of the civil war. The original black and white photo has been colorized.

Happy Appomattox Day. I bring to you a photo of my grandmother's uncle, John Henry Hall, taken on his return from Appomattox. He joined the New Jersey Volunteers in the closing months of the war and was assigned to the 7th Regiment, Company C.
#Appomattox #DenvilleNJ #CivilWar

Appomattox Court House surrender Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendering to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865; wood engraving based on an illustration by Alfred R. Waud, 1887.

Happy Appomattox day to those who celebrate it
To those who don't, nah nah nah nah nah.

Sorry kids, if the Easter Bunny didn't make it to your house. I have a new rabbit recipe to try out.
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#NOLA #CommandersPalace

People walking to the synagogue around the corner seemed somewhat taken aback when I wished them
happy holidays. I don't know if it was greetings from a lapsed right-wing evangelical christian or the abysmal pronunciation of Chag Sameach that shocked them.

#NOLA #Passover

I'm sitting in my local watering hole, watching the #NASA feed of the #Artemis launch, looking at my calendar and wondering if this is an elaborate April Fools joke.

Ditto

When I first saw the video for "won't you fix my door" I was hooked. Then I saw "lemon pound cake".
Now I'm a serious fan.

A pumper truck set up to dispense beer and whiskey instead of water.

A former fire department pumper truck, acquired by a New Orleans St. Patrick's Day marching club, is set up to dispense beer instead of water.

New Orleans Fire Department, tired of SWB's broken water mains leading to no water pressure and boil water advisories, displays new water-free pumper trucks in today's Irish Channel St. Patrick's day parade. Good for putting out fires and safely quenching thirst.
#NOLA

A boxed key-lime pie from The Able Baker in Maplewood NJ. There is a sticker on the front of the box that reads "mmm, pie"

Happy pi day!

Picture shows a bloody Mary with shrimp and a pickled green bean garnish. The drink sits on a table and there is a white rocking chair in the background.

Good morning NOLA! It's a white sport coat and pink crustacean kind of day. Bloody Mary Time!

A TV screen with a blue box and the text "Are you still here?" followed by "If you'd like to keep watching, just let us know below."

Walked into my local watering hole on St. Charles.
I was not expecting an existential crisis.

That pipe was leaking pretty bad when I drove through that intersection Saturday afternoon. I was a bit perplexed because I thought they had just replaced that pipe.
Even more perplexed watching the the news this morning when SWB stated they had just found out about it.
SMH

A screenshot of the latest boil water advisory in New Orleans. A red blob covers much of uptown New Orleans, indicating that it is under a boil water advisory. Again.

And yes, boys and girls, uptown New Orleans is under yet another boil water advisory.

When I went to bed last night, I was congratulating myself for not visiting my daughter in Philly, which is getting about 2 ft of snow.

Joke is on me.

#NOLA #SWBNO

Great. Something else to keep me up at night.

Do you know how hard it is to get arrested in New Orleans during Mardi Gras?
I've seen DWI roadblocks where they throw you back in the French Quarter because you're too sober.

Shame our two hospital ships are down for repairs. If the briefing papers were in comic form, Trump -- and Landry -- might have known this.

And to think I saw it on Mulberry Street.

My coworkers thought it was really funny - I had a 9am meeting and I said that my parents and brother were all out partying. And a coworker said, "just to be clear, it's 9:22AM and your family is out partying?" And I said "Well in New Orleans it's 8:22AM" and everyone burst out laughing

Happy Mardi Gras for those of you doomed to live in a place where it's just Tuesday. Herewith a text from my lovely daughter several years back.
Despite being from New Orleans, she lives in Philly and works in Jersey.
#MardiGras #NOLA

Edibles?

Maybe they did, but I have yet to see any screams of outrage from the chief of police or city leaders.

Cannabis dispensary bursts into flames in Irvington, New Jersey The 3-alarm fire inside a cannabis dispensary injured two firefighters in New Jersey.

And how many boomers lined up downwind? 😁

Woohoo! Go #NOLA! In addition to the boil water advisory from yesterday's water main break. We also have lost power. New Orleans could be so interesting.

(BTW, It's 28°)

If you're keeping track at home, the low today in Billings is warmer than the high in New Orleans.

Something is wrong with the weather. It's 35° in NOLA and 56° in Billings Montana.

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15 text messages from various Democratic operatives have gotten past my spam filters in the past few days. I'm already a left-wing pinko commie.
I guess my fellow travelers don't understand that this is counterproductive.
I'm still waiting for the George Soros checks to land in my bank account.

A big shout out to #DJT, our national pedophile, who canceled the drug benefits negotiated by the Biden administration.

A medication I have to have just went from $50 a month to $260.

I guess I'll have to wait for my next check from Soros to pay for it.

#FDJT.