The stars up in heaven They are lookin' kindly down Upon the grave of Joe Noussair

Joe Noussair would have turned 56 years old today, but alas, he left us all too early…

In the 20 years I knew him, we shared many a conversation, a drink, and an adventure, notably with road trips in his Mini to Civil War battlefields in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.

This blog's obituary of Joe Noussair (Beirut, Jan. 3, 1968—DC, April 7, 2023) originally appeared one day after his passing in April, but in the meantime, more photos from the past two decades have been unearthed…

Joe Noussair
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington D.C. Feb 9 2008

Harpers Ferry, site of John Brown's raid:
The stars up in heaven
They are lookin' kindly down (3x)
Upon the grave of ol' John Brown

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, December 9 2006

Harpers Ferry, where the Potomac
and Shenandoah rivers meet

You needed to understand German to
figure out Joe Noussair's vanity plate
BSP8R = Bis Später
December 6 2006

How likely is that?! Finding two red minis (one of them Joe's)
parked side by side in a car garage Feb 11 2008

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: With Da Tech Guy's Peter Ingemi in the background at
CPAC Feb 20 2010, Joe jokes around with Smitty, the sidekick of the Other McCain

During the presidential campaign of 2004, ca. eight months
after this blog had started, I was contacted by some reader in DC
asking if he could come spend a weekend with me in my Paris apartment;
I hesitated, wondering if this guy was some kind of nutcase

Joe Noussair flew over the Atlantic in the Fall of 2004 to join
in crashing a US expats' John Kerry event next to the Eiffel Tower
— in my Paris apartment, we made (bilingual) signs based on
the Protest Warrior movement's tongue-in-cheek signs —
and after 2 or 3 days he flew back to DC again

Sporting a Protest Warrior T-shirt, Joe crosses le Pont d'Iéna to join in
crashing a John Kerry event organized by US expats next to the Eiffel Tower

Joe Noussair at Suresnes'
American Cemetery and Memorial
October 14, 2006

Joe Noussair at Suresnes'
American Cemetery and Memorial
October 14, 2006

From the blog's obituary:

My first meeting with Joe was when this avid but otherwise unknown No Pasarán reader (by then, the blog had barely existed for some eight months) wrote or called (I forget which) from Washington in the Fall of 2004 and asked if he could come spend a weekend with me in my Paris apartment. Who on earth is this nut?! was my immediate thought. 

But I had blogged that I was preparing a Protest Warrior-type infiltration of a rally for John Kerry under the Eiffel Tower during the 2004 election while asking for volunteers, and Joe said that he would take a flight across the Atlantic (yes—really!) for the sole reason of wanting to join in the fun. He brought with him a lot of ammo, in the form of a number of Protest Warrior T-shirts and, as the good handyman he was (more about Joe's job below), he bought the material for our signs and put them together…

In general, this reader commented — at length — on so many posts, and with such knowledge and passion, that U*2 and I eventually said that we might as well invite Joe N to join the blog.

Operation Rooster Crow: Infiltrating the Pro-Kerry Rally Under the Eiffel Tower 

Bis später, Joe; bis später…