So all I do is stupid, surreal Sunday now?

Apparently.
That will change soon, nevertheless since it is indeed Sunday....

You can't make this stuff up:  Gun Appreciation Day Celebrated With Accidental Shootings at Gun Shows in North Carolina and Ohio (complete with ignorant, ahistorical paranoid comments from weapons fetishists).


From the blindingly obvious file: If she's afraid of kids, maybe this woman should pick another profession (just sayin'). 


How bad is Beijing’s air pollution?  Try “beyond index.” 


Don't hassle the dead boy, they have eerie powers.

Yeah, this isn’t racist. 

The NHL is back! Apparently so is the enticing aroma.

Cash is cash.


Sure, the dog ran him over.

We now know Walter White's nemesis for the final episodes of Breaking Bad. 

Just let me state for the record, this woman does not represent all cat haters.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the sweatiest part of your body (if you have to know).

So now I have to get naked the old-fashioned way at the airport?

Can't do stupid etc. Sunday this week

Our little guy was sick with a fever Friday and Saturday (much improved today), so I have been a bit distracted. Next Sunday will have a double dose!

It's baaack: Absurb, Stupid and Surreal Sunday

Hey tourists, the Vatican doesn't want your rubber checks anymore.

Tip to avoid a stabbling: If someone from Jersey is giving you a lift, make sure you tell them where you want to get dropped off.

But would it be OK if you insulted the Emir on Facebook instead?

Sure cattle dogs can drive, but they can't park for shit.

But a cattle dog would have been a better smuggler than a cat...

WaPo: name of Idaho senator arrested for DUI is pronounced CRAY-poe  

Brazilian teen wants to sell her virginity? I think there's a name for that...

I guess a story like this indicates the end is in sight for Bieber (one hopes).

Icelandair discovers that there is no end to the uses you can find for duck tape.

Returning for the New Year

Now that the hectic fall and another (final?) failure of the Delaware Ivory Tower to come through for me are past, I am ready to make a triumphant return to the Old School House. I mean that literally as we are on a New Year's trip to Mass. right now.  Yes, I haven't yet reviewed my forecasts for 2012, but I will and will provide new ones for 2013. I can give you one right now though - there will be no NHL season. Goin' out on a limb, I know right? Still a lot of work to do on the homestead and salvaging some sort of use for my geological education, but the scheduling is all mine now.  I'll probably write in the evening and try to post in the morning, if someone lets me:

Joe in a rare quiet moment

My old twitter account @ekoh_PA will now be a personal one like this blog, @wtf_PA is now for Marcellus and energy news for Pennsylvania and I've begun posting again over at What The Frack Pennsylvania.