1.) I can’t find gas anywhere in Atlanta. Seriously. Every gas station within 20 miles of my house has plastic bags covering the gas nozzles. WTF?
2.) Watching James Carville on Late Edition. He looks ill. He really does look awful.
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Darkness
Ouch. Well, your local press is on the job. I guess you better break out a pair of comfortable shoes…
Dennis - SGMM
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Screwing Mary Matalin drained his life force.
Hubris
No gas is available in Atlanta? Just walk to wherever you need to go. I don’t personally care because I figure the only way you are going to change behavior is to make life painful.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Incertus
I filled my gas tank last week for the first time in a month and a half. The train has made things so much easier for me this semester. It’s my way of giving the capitalist pigs my capitalist finger.
wasabi gasp
The pumps are being adjusted for 97 cents on the dollar.
Mr Furious
I went to at least 8-9 stations here in Asheville before I found ONE that had gas. And it only had one grade (87, fortunately) left…
Scott H
People over-react during a shortage (about which they were forewarned), and there you go. Or, there you don’t go. Gas stations run out.
Carville doesn’t look, to me, any worse than he usually does.
Dennis - SGMM
Gas stations are preparing to charge $10,000 dollars a gallon for gas. Of course no one will buy gas at that price so the gas stations will then be clogged with toxic assets. Paulson will buy all the gas from them at $10,000/gallon and keep it in the petroleum reserve so that it can later be sold at a profit.
SnarkyShark
Welcome to my world. Of course we had a big Hurricane roll through here recently as an excuse. It couldn’t be because the place that makes 1/5 of the nations Gasoline is still shut down.
Surely we would have heard something on the news?
Whats that you ask? Whats this about a Hurricane?
Never mind.
Danton
Same thing happened here in Nashville last week. There was a rumor that gas would run out, so everyone filled up or topped off and a whole lot of people brought gas cans–some brough many cans.
I think it was reported that 85% of the city’s stations ran out.
R Ghanbari
1. Welcome to channel disruption from refineries being shut down for hurricanes
2. Carville actually passed away years ago…he resides in Louisiana now so he can be closer to the vodoo folks that manage his reanimation
SteveinSC
Speaking of the southeast, I live in a predominantly black area in SC with plenty of bitter-ender “Confedracy Forever” whites. I saw a curious bumper sticker the other day. It was an Obama bumper sticker, but immediately juxtaposed, as if it were an integral part, was a confederate battle flag. My ancestors here in SC were officers in the Confederate Army. On the other hand, I have already given a substantial amount of money to the Obama campaign. I am intrigued by the “make-do” bumper sticker and am pondering putting something like it one on my car. The owner had to be white and I am just thinking it made a positive statement for down here.
P.S. Plenty of gas here and dropping below $4.00.
oh really
He was referring to other people’s pain, not his own. Silly.
oh really
I’m sitting here wracking my brain trying to figure out a time when Carville didn’t look awful. And he always looks ten times worse when he’s talking (at least he does if I am stupid enough to listen).
I can never decide who I think is more loathsome — Carville or Matalin. They both give me the creeps. David Broder probably thinks of them as the ideal bipartisan couple. I think of them as some kind of monstrous freak of nature that should have been terminated before being let loose on the world.
James Carville. Ick. Thanks. Now you’ve ruined my day.
Laura W
yeow. I’m down in Brevard and haven’t looked for gas since Ike, I believe. I had half a tank then and figured by the time I needed it, there’d be some. I still have that half a tank but am going to go find me some gas today. I have seen cars doing what appears to be pulling up to functioning pumps in this area, however.
Of course, I’m driving a friend’s Land Rover Discovery right now…say no more. It gags and spits up on you if you try to cram anything but super premium down its throat.
Martin
Just to remind everyone how balkanized the nation’s gas market is, I bought gas yesterday for the lowest price in quite a long time. ($3.63 isn’t exactly cheap, but compared to the $4.59 I was paying around July 4, it’s downright tolerable.) CA refines it’s own gas, so refinery problems in Texas mean bupkis to us. Take comfort when LA gets leveled in an 8.0 that y’all will still be able to get gas when our refineries are all wiped out. Unless you live in Oregon, then you’re fucked.
eric u.
It would be more awesome that Buchannon blamed the capitalist pigs if you couldn’t tell he was thinking “dirty Jews” when he said it. I’m surprised that he could control himself from saying it.
This whole gas shortage has me a little freaked out. I live up north, when are we going to run out? My mother lives in Nashville, she has a long commute and I hear they have no gas there either. She’s impossible to get on the phone and doesn’t use email, so I dunno how she’s getting along.
zzyzx
Plenty of gas in Seattle because of that too.
jake
Hubris wins.
When has J.C. not looked horrible? I always wondered why the guy looks hungry enough to eat a baby, then one of you smart asses linked to this.
This is that poor bastard’s dining room. The place looks like the interior of a stomach, you’d have to be mentally ill to eat in there.
Holy Mother of God. This is the home of a man who has been castrated and force-fed estrogen by his wife. It would explain the lack of hair. If he’s looking worse, I’d guess he’s been drinking water straight from the Potomac in hope’s he’ll be taken to a better, non-pink, place.
Laura W
Man, I must be more hungovered than I thunk. Those photos just made my head swim, and I am a color freak. There is usually no such thing as too much color for me, but Wow. Remember that booze ad they did together a while back for Makers Mark? Dewars? Imagine being one drink over your limit and having to pull up a chair and chat with them in those rooms. Yak.
So I had the smarts to ask my very young checker at the market where she is buying gas and she told me Jarrett’s in Rosman, the next town west of me. This after 3 of the 4 closest stations were out, and one had only one grade which appeared to be 87, from my car, anyway. I’ve lived here nearly 2 years and never had any inclination to go into Rosman, but today I explored new terrain in quest of $4.29 premium gold. All was not lost…gave me a chance to clean off the back window so my (taped on the inside) Obama ’08 sticker from MoveOn shows through the glass. (The car is not mine, therefore I shant sticker it up.)
My head is still swimming and I feel nauseous.
Oh. McShame is “speaking” on the tee vee. No wonder.
nicethugbert
Living with conservatism will do that to you. Or was it his conscience?
Blue Buddha
Yeah, I heard about that in Nashville. I’m thinking that the gas running out in Atlanta has to do with panic buying on a rumor as well.
Keith
That chandelier looks like one of those kids’ toys they have in waiting rooms of doctors’ offices and car service centers. And I thought Elvis’ Jungle Room was tacky.
nicethugbert
So, the Carville’s live in an empty B&B that looks like a sterile womb. How, symbolically cute.
Kevin
My god, that looks like a room at the Madonna Inn.
Laura W
Brilliant, Kevin!
I know it reminded me of something I was repressing.
I went to UCSB and well, Solvang was, you know. Too close.
Or was it in SLO?
NO matter.
The insides remain the same.
Remember the cave man room?
The room is spinning again, and I think this time it’s because Josh Groben (??sp??) is doing a nauseating medley of sitcom songs. Whose LAME idea was this shit????
OMIGOD. Including the Love Boat theme. And Jeffersons. And COPS.
I am throwing up a lot in my mouth right now.
But COLBERT WON!!!!!
zuzu's petals
Weren’t the bathrooms like super duper fantasmical?
That was the best place to break up a long trip and get hot chocolate when the boy was still a toddler … whew, more than 30 years ago, whew.
Nemoudeis
1) I’m a bit shocked to hear that there are still gas shortages going around down there. We always had plenty of gasoline up here in the Upper Midwest (I think because we get so much of our oil from Canada), and prices have been steadily declining for the past week or so. My father even claimed to have come across $3.34/gallon gasoline at a station out in the sticks.
2) Man, you’re right about Carville. I saw him on a different show the other day, and I just about cried out in shock when I saw his face pop up for the first time. Yeah, he always had a lot of “character” in that hatchet job he calls a face; but all of a sudden his features have gone from “weird, but human” into the late-night Creature Feature category.
Sarcastro
$4.80 for regular here in Chattanooga. And that’s all there is. Had to retard my timing last night since there’s no hi-test available and my hot cams will ping like a sun’bich if I don’t.