Juneteenth!

It's today

What is the traditional way to celebrate this auspicious day?

Reading Paula Deen for filth.

Thus

https://twitter.com/djbrainchild/status/347404444658442240

http://www.juneteenth.com/worldwide.htm

Alas, this list of events in all the US states is only useful if you can go back in time to 2011

http://www.galvestondailynews.com/lifestyle/leisure/article_8f142b4e-d899-11e2-9800-001a4bcf6878.html

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130619/NEWS01/706199949

So they read the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas this morning.

by chance, was reading 'lincoln's hundred days' by louis masur -- about the 100 days leading up to the release of the proclamation -- while waiting for my car to be worked on this morning. a terrific read.

anyone here read the "novel" "by" ellison? I love invisible man. Is it one of the good unfinished works?

quotation marks fully justified. it's a mess and a fake.

WHITE CO-WORKER: "And then I noticed there was hardly any traffic on the road. Then I remembered, it was Juneteenth!"

ME: "Yeah! Federal holiday and everything now."

WCW: "But you know, too bad it's not for us..."

ME: ...

ME: "I don't know about that? I mean, we're all Americans."

WCW: ...

WCW: "I mean, we're not bankers or postal workers, Plains."

I sincerely hope your WCW was thinking in this vein: FASTER YOU FUCKERS - The ILX Work & Productivity Thread, bcz if not that was a regrettable exchange.

Overheard a confused woman at the grocery store who couldn't figure out why she was going to a June 10th barbecue when it was almost the 20th.