A jetpack would be cool, but what I really want is transporter technology, like Star Trek. Of course, with my luck, I'd be the first to come down with transporter psychosis...maybe the jetpack is a better idea after all. :)

Perhaps it's time to bring the cats and the contents of your house to your office. If you lived there you wouldn't have to commute.

The cats would love the view from your office window!!

Kidding aside, I'm sorry that it's getting so hard for you to get into work. I really wish I could find out the truth about the ridiculous gas prices and it's effect on everything else we buy. It's so depressing.

But wouldn't the jetpack use premium fuel? And where would you stow it? Would it fit in your handbag? Seems it might be more of a hassle than driving. ;)

A jetpack would be awesome. And I think they'd work on some sort of alternate fuel, like... Zucchini Power! Gad-zukes!

Pez, obviously you do not know your science fiction! The jetpack runs on love, sometimes, and other times it runs on banana peels!!

They did a segment on NPR last Friday about Sarah Marshall's and had some of them call in on the show with their opinions of this add campaign...it was pretty funny what they had to say about it...

I want a jetpack, too..
And gosh that's a lot for gas; knock on wood it's not that quite that high here yet..

EXACTLY! (Only I have been waiting for it alot longer than you.) They PROMISED!

I LOVE my jet pack.

The LA Times did a piece on Sarah Marshalls in March - I would personally lose my crap i billboards started showing up that said "CursingMama You Suck!" I'm just saying.

Coincidentally, when I was a teenager scrounging for change to fill my gas tank I couldn't wait until I became an adult and paying for gas wouldn't be such a horrible awful deal. Apparently I was delusional.

All I can think of when I see that sign is that a comma would have made it much clearer.

Yeah! I want my Jetpack too! I wouldn't mind paying 4 a gal for jetpack fuel!! ;-)

And what about the effect the cost of gas will have on important stuff like YARN?!

Do you know how much JET FUEL costs?!?

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, but my friends and I were discussing the lack of punctuation in those ads. I mean, if you're addressing Sarah Marshall, you should probably have a comma in there. Punctuation sticklers of the world, I know you're with me.

someone's sucking sarah marshall?

I had always wanted a transporter of some sort. I thought, if we could have something that looked like a phone booth (preferably the pretty red ones they have in London, right) where you get in and pay a quarter to get transported Star Trek-style to wherever you wanted to go, that would be nice. Alas, I'd probably get an arm stuck in the door and only get partially transported.

how about this tshirt instead - although you don't strike me as a tshirt girl, but maybe you could make it cuter with your craftiness?

http://www.zazzle.com/greenbaby/product/235707905356509436

There are several Sarah Marshalls in LA, including a high school girl who was interviewed in "The Times."

Ya know what else sucks, besides towing people who are just trying to catch a bus? A few months ago, some bleeping cop gave me a bogus ticket. Nowadays, you have to pay the fine before the trial. I paid the fine in February. I'm still waiting to find out whether the court will find me guilty or innocent, and refund the fine. In the meantime, they've been collecting interest on my money for months. Don't let anyone tell you the cops in LA aren't corrupt.

we are up to $3.47 at my corner as of this morning.

SUCKS ON TOAST, I TELLS YA!

Me and my roommate were in Chicago about a month ago with those posters/signs/ads (they aren't up in the town we live in), and we ended up having an in-depth discussion about the effect those things could potentially have on a younger girl who saw that.

But then, I'm the kind of girl who would lock herself up in the house and not come out unless absolutely necessary if it was my name on the posters, so that's my bias.

speaking of Back to the Future (or sort of speaking of it, at any rate, and even then only speaking of II and III), I thought it was Mr Fusion that ran on banana peels, not jet packs? maybe the jet packs use Mr Fusion technology?

Of course the Prez has the solution! He's suggested that we just go to Alaska and start drilling in those fields that are currently environmentally protected and that will help the gas situation! Huh! It will help the oil companies get richer, you know they need more than $162 billion profit. But it's not gonna help you and me. It's kinda like the gov'mnt helping out the banks that got so many people in trouble with their mortgage, by bailing them out, instead of helping out the home owners who fell into the trap the banks extended!

I get up at an ungodly hour. And am on the bus at 5 AM. Today the bus was packed! At 5AM!!

Gas price at one location (in the ghetto) is $3.43 in Philly.

We're creeping up to Cali levels here with the highest gas prices in SE Michigan - $3.69/gal for regular (not premium) unleaded.

Dude, where's my electric car?

PS - I hadn't seen that ad campaign, but I think all the Sarah Marshalls should get together and file a class-action anti-defamation lawsuit. SWEET.

Wow, I can't believe they just now started towing people. Although, if people got a ticket for parking there, you'd think they wouldn't park there anymore. Maybe we could all go in together and buy one of those lots and make money off of it. By charging for parking, of course - not by towing...that would be rude.

Jetpack travel plays havoc with the wispy bangs, darlin. What you want is to telecommute.

If the Jet Pack would run on cat poop, many of the world's problems would be solved.

Me, too! Always thought as a kid that by now we'd have jetpacks. Or at least space cars that run on some kind of pocketbook/environmentally friendly fuel.

And Kristen, I heard that same segment on NPR about several Sarah Marshalls calling in. Funny!

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I've been wearing this shirt for two years. I still don't have a jetpack.

Gas in San Francisco is hovering around $4. NO BUENO!

ya know whats funny? its about 3.60 here in montana. All of last year we were the lowest in the states, I don't know whats going on but its getting to everyone really bad. >.<

I gotta say, while budgeting for rent money isn't fun, at least I don't have to buy gas to get myself to WORK - I'm currently unemployed. :)

And I tease my parents: "You can tell how much your daughter loves you, she bought gas at THESE PRICES while unemployed, just to drive an hour to see you!"

Hee hee.

I tried harnessing the cat and putting her on a treadmill to work up some electricity for free, but she just rolled over and showed me her curly-wurly belly hair.

Flying cars. They said we'd have flying cars by the year 2000. Liars.

I'll go with a transporter, though. But not for people. I don't like ALL the folks I'm related to.
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You aren't the only one:
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Flying cars. They said we'd have flying cars by the year 2000. Liars.

I'll go with a transporter, though. But not for people. I don't like ALL the folks I'm related to.
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Poor Sarah. I don't know any Sarah Marshall, but given that there are at least three other people with my (much less common) full name running about the countryside, I am confident that several exist.

I want a dragon (from the Anne McCaffrey Pern books).

I thought for sure we'd have flying cars by now. Like the Jetson's. It bums me out no end.

I feel for the Sarah Marshalls. As a teenager I had my first name splashed on the marquee of every adult theatre in town. For the record, I have never been to Dallas.

Yeah, but do you know how much jet fuel costs these days? : )

How many more reasons do you need to get the heck out of that arm pit known as LA? Eventually, the bad will out weigh the good.

The guy who stars in and wrote the Sarah Marshall movie was on Letterman the other night...he said they tested some movie posters with his picture on it and apparently people had a "bad reaction" to seeing his face, so they went with the plain ad campaign we've all been seeing. Talk about hurting feelings!

next best thing:
http://www.zapworld.com/electric-vehicles/electric-scooters/zapino-electric-scooter

I'm holding out for the teleporter/transporter thing from Star Trek.

...or barring a transporter, a Firebolt or a Nimbus 2000!

You can borrow my broom for a while if you want.

I'd like a solar powered hover-car please.

I got you beat on the gas prices out here in the O.C.!

http://thehappyhooker.blogspot.com/2008/04/dude-wheres-my-blog.html

I saw 'em on my way to Disneyland on Saturday, and told my daughter: "Get the camera! Get the Camera!"

Oh, I don't know C.A.P., I've heard that those jetpacks get through fuel reeeeeeally quickly!

Yes, being names Sarah Marshall with that ad campaign would suck right now. Recently a woman with the same name as mine committed a fairly serious and particularly heinous act that resulted in a teen ager committing suicide. So there are lots of news stories vilifying this person with my name and if you do a search for my name you see lots of people that want to personally kill her. It can make a person nervous...

I am SO with you on the jetpack thing. I thought that when I was in my thirties the world would be like the Jetson's. sigh.

I not only want a jetpack, I want to be like "Jane, his wife." Just give me your wallet honey so I can shop all day!

And a flying car. I thought by the time I'd be 30 there would be flying cars.

These prices just remind me of the 70s gas prices and how my mom had to use a TWENTY to fill up the car and how we made sure we filled up on the days that were even. Now I use a FIFTY to fill up the van and I water my lawn on days assigned to my even numbered house.

After having to pay an unexpected "fuel" charge to send my godmother flowers (think FTD which uses LOCAL flower shops...) it actually did hurt to fill my tank $3.89/gal at my cheapie gas station in Seattle. That was the quickest $100 I've ever spent.

I misread your penultimate sentence about your plans when you were 30 and thought they included having a fro. I was taken aback, but I support you in all your choices.

It's funny, I ranted about fuel prices on my blog yesterday, too. Over here (UK) they're crazy. I had to pay £1.20 a liter yesterday!

However, it's still more economical for me to drive to work than it is for me to use public transport (bus-train-bus). I worked it out yesterday that I'd need to be paying another 25p a liter before that equation changed.

Ouchy!

- Pam

For my rant: http://pipneyjane.blogspot.com/2008/04/ouch-my-hip-pocket-nerve-is-hurting.html

They actually had a story on NPR last weekend where they talked to a bunch of women named Sarah Marshall. I guess all of their friends are calling them to ask if they do indeed suck...

My sister's name is Sarah Marshall.

I almost drove off the road when I saw the billboard that said, "My mom always hated you, Sarah Marshall."

Anyone remember that commercial on Sci-Fi for the big SUV monster type truck that when she hit a button it folded up and fit in her purse? Maybe we could get someone to do THAT. The we could knit a cozy for it once it's all small... :-)

Matter transporter. That's what I want!

Check this out! Jet packs are here!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352477,00.html

Oh, yeah, jetpacks! Totally with you on that one! Except, um, I'm sort of afraid of heights--that could be a problem, I guess.

I heard that NPR story where they interviewed three different women around the country named Sarah Marshall. One of them was Dr. Sarah Marshall. It was the first I'd heard of the movie. Makes me glad I have an uncommon name.

Hah I saw the "My Mother ALWAYS Hated You Sarah Marshall" billboard on the 126 the other day and it definitely took me a few seconds to figure out what it was all about. Great advertisement if you ask me.

What's the deal? Is everywhere else in the world cheaper than Santa Barbara County? The cheapest I can find it is $3.99 and that's pushing it with a discount if you wash you car. I'm with the bus people on this one. Even though I have to wake up at 3:30 or 4am and I have no social life, at least I can still afford to buy groceries.

Great idea to doc the rise of petro with pics... I wish I'd thought of that.

What's diesel going for out there?

We've broken $3.50 a gallon for regular gas and diesel has hit $4.25. It's absurd. Now granted we're in Raleigh not out there where everything costs more. My friend says he thinks diesel will break $5.00 before the end of the summer. At the rate things are rising I think we may hit $5.00 before it's even actually summer. It's gone up more than $0.25 this last week. It's insane.

We don't have mass transit options here. I'm thankful for my Prius.

I haven't seen this movie yet (had to watch Harold & Kumar first!), but apparently all the real "Sarah Marshalls" are pissed with the ad campaign and are lashing back!

http://bigpicture.fancast.com/2008/04/fancast_feature_sarah_marshall.html

Gas is over $1.20 Cdn a litre right now... about $4.50/US gallon. People are complaining and it's only going to go up...

Failing a jetpack (and I can only imagine how badly I'd crash that!!), I have to say that getting out on my bike has run a really close second. I had not ridden since childhood, but I bought my first ever non-handmedown bike last year and I am LOVING IT.

Passing cars stuck in traffic jams is just a bonus :D