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| Costume Shop | [[Cat and Girl look through a costume shop.]]
/ Cat: "Hippie"?
/ Girl: No. / Cat: "Feminist"?
/ Girl: No. / Cat: "Chav"?
/ Girl: Ugh, no. / Girl: Don't even say it. / Girl: Like we don't have enough words for making fun of people poorer than us. / Grrrl: "Chav" isn't about money. It's about class.
/ Girl:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=919 |
| Flooding | [[Girl holds her head in her hands.]] / [[Cat approaches her.]]
/ Girl: I'd think we were being punished if I believed in anything that might punish us. / Cat: Let's play the silver lining game.
/ Girl: OK. / Girl: National attention has been drawn to the destruction of coastal wetlands that increased... http://catandgirl.com/?p=927 |
| Iconography Today | [[Girl stands outside of two restrooms. One door has a sign marked "Ladies." The other has a sign marked "Whores."]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=929 |
| Boy Lucks Out | [[Boy sits on the bank of a river, fishing.]]
/ Boy: < http://catandgirl.com/?p=931 |
| Ready-made Generational Touchstone | [[Cat stands by the microwave.]]
/ < http://catandgirl.com/?p=933 |
| Death and Tchotchkes | [[Cat wanders through a store. Paintings, television sets, lamps and a harp are on display.]] / [[Cat checks the lamp's price tag.]] / [[Cat turns to Girl.]]
/ Cat: I think I've caught the bug. / Cat: The antiquing bug. / Cat: < http://catandgirl.com/?p=935 |
| Out of Vogue | [[Girl and Grrrl enter a practice space. Two girls who look like Grrrl are there.]]
/ Grrrl: This is the band.
/ Bassist: Hi.
/ Drummer: Hey! / [[Grrrl unpacks her guitar.]]
/ Grrrl: We're calling ourselves "The Upper Middle Class." / Girl: Have any new songs?
/ Grrrl: A few. / [[Grrrl tunes.]]
/ Grrrl:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=937 |
| Ich bin ein Toast | [[Cat is about to touch the butter. Girl looks over from the refrigerator.]]
/ Girl: Don't touch that! / Cat: What?
/ Girl: I'm making toast. / Cat: Ooh, I'll help! Hold on. / [[Cat leaves. Girl stirs batter.]] / [[Cat returns carrying books.]]
/ Cat: You can start with "1001 Purportedly Humorous Anecdotes,"... http://catandgirl.com/?p=939 |
| After-School Activities | Girl: Hey, do you want to come over? / Girl: I'm working on a lecture about the legacy of John Waters as embodied by the post-"Hairspray" careers of Ricki Lake and Vitamin C. / Girl: I made puppets!
/ [[Girl holds up two sock puppets resembling John Waters and Ricki Lake in "Hairspray.]] / Boy: I'm... http://catandgirl.com/?p=941 |
| Mime Time | [[Cat smiles and waves his hands.]] / [[He waves his hands to the right.]] / [[He waves his hands to the left.]] / Girl: That doesn't spell "Y-M-C-A." / Cat: I'm in a box! / [[Cat points right at the edge of the panel.]]
/ Cat: Box here! / [[Cat points up at the edge of the panel.]]
/ Cat: Box there! / [[Girl... http://catandgirl.com/?p=943 |
| The Regular Crowd Shuffles In | Girl: John at the bar is Bill's analogue. / Girl: But John has a dream - being a movie star. He just can't get out of that place. / Girl: Paul, the real estate novelist. Davy of the Navy. Clinging to what remains of their hopes. / [[Girl sits in the kitchen drinking coffee. Cat comes in to join her.]]
/ Girl:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=945 |
| Fine Art | [[Cat and Girl stand looking at Turner's painting "The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons."]] / [[They look.]] / [[They look.]] / Girl: Did we turn the oven off? http://catandgirl.com/?p=947 |
| Eternal Struggle | < http://catandgirl.com/?p=949 |
| Something in the Air | [[Girl considers a backgammon board, a cup of tea at her side.]] / [[She smells something in the air.]] / Girl: < http://catandgirl.com/?p=951 |
| Nighthawks | Cat: Ugh. / [[Girl is in the kitchen holding a box of cat food.]]
/ Girl: We're cat sitting, not redecorating. / [[Edward Hopper's painting "Nighthawks."]] / Cat: Where do you even get a painting like that? / [[Cat and Girl look at the painting.]] / Girl: IKEA? / [[The leave.]] / [[Cat comes back... http://catandgirl.com/?p=953 |
| School Shopping | [[Cat and Girl enter a store.]]
/ Girl: Eros and Thanatos - the purchase and the return. / [[They walk among towels, glassware and large baskets.]]
/ Girl: The myth of creation as a hand-made tchotchke - / Girl: Physical labor outsourced, tchotchke priced to move. / Girl: The aesthetics of nostalgia... http://catandgirl.com/?p=955 |
| Large Mediums | [[Cat and Girl sit on the couch watching television.]]
/ Girl: Early television programs never showed people watching TV. / Girl: Like television's application for "real object" status was still pending. / Girl: It wasn't until "The Simpsons" and "Roseanne" that we saw a realistic portrayal of the television... http://catandgirl.com/?p=957 |
| Slap Fight | Beatnik Vampire: The only Wes Anderson film I like is "Bottle Rocket."
/ Cat: The only Bill Murray film I like is "Ghostbusters II." / Beatnik Vampire: Thai food is better than Chinese.
/ Cat: Cuban food made by Mexicans is better than Italian food made by Albanians. / Beatnik Vampire: I believe in respecting... http://catandgirl.com/?p=959 |
| The World's Largest Cubicle | [[Cat and Girl do research. Girl reads a book called "Wonders of the Modern World."]] / [[Cat and Girl look at a map.]] / [[Cat and Girl argue about the bag on the kitchen counter marked "Trail Mix." Cat holds a box of carob.]] / [[Cat and Girl hike through a forest. A bird sings.]] / [[Night. Cat... http://catandgirl.com/?p=962 |
| Traffic | [[Cat and Girl are in a car. Cat is driving, his teeth gritted, sweat pouring from his forehead. On the buildingd near the road hangs a banner: "If you lived here you'd be urinating now."]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=964 |
| The Black Freighter | You say "Work on, take these envelopes, my boy,
/ [[An office. Boy is handed envelopes.]] / color-code them all in order of expiration."
/ [[Boy works at his desk.]] / And your folders will be filed, and your coffee will be made,
/ [[Boy, shaking, carries a cup of coffee to a man in a dark office.]] / but... http://catandgirl.com/?p=966 |
| The Black Freighter | By noontime the docks are swarming with men
/ [[An office break room, a dirty cup of coffee by the sink.]] / coming out form the ghostly freighter.
/ [[A water cooler.]] / They move in the shadows, where no one can see
/ [[A cup of coffee and a desktop computer.]] / and they're chaining up people and... http://catandgirl.com/?p=968 |
| Feeling Hard or Hardly Feeling | [[Cat drinks from a can of paint.]] / [[He licks his lips.]] / Cat: What? / [[Girl is sad.]] / Girl: Do you ever feel like you've got this - hole that goes straight through the middle of you? / Girl: Like there's a hole at the center of everyone? / Girl: And we try to fill it with shopping or eating,... http://catandgirl.com/?p=970 |
| House Arrest | [[Cat sits at a window looking outside.]] / [[He sees a fly.]] / [[Cat lunges for the fly and misses.]] / Offscreen voice: Ha Ha Ha Ha / [[Two cats sit on a fence.]]
/ Tuxedo Cat: Hey house cat!
/ Crosseyed Cat: Ha Ha / Tuxedo Cat: I bet you crap in a box. / Tuxedo Cat: You sleep in people's laps. / Tuxedo... http://catandgirl.com/?p=972 |
| God Bless America | [[Cat and Girl are watching television.]]
/ Cat: What was the name of the Mary Tyler Moore spinoff starring her ugly friend? / Girl: "Rhoda." And she was NOT ugly. / Cat: "Rhoda!"
/ Girl: Valerie Harper. Later of "Valerie." / Girl: Which became "Valerie's Family" when she left. And then "The Hogan Family." / Cat:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=974 |
| Outdoor Activities | [[Cat and Girl sit on the couch. Girl reads.]] / Cat: Race you to the upper middle class. Ready go! / [[Cat and Girl run past the kitchen.]] / [[They run outside. Cat breathes heavily. Girl inches ahead.]] / [[Girl gains more ground.]] / Girl: Oof!
/ [[Girl takes a spill. Cat keeps running.]] / [[Girl... http://catandgirl.com/?p=976 |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | [[Cat sits reading and listening to music on a boombox.]] / [[Girl comes in, shaking her fist.]]
/ Girl: There are two types of people in the world - / Girl: The people who say "boo hoo" in a sarcastic voice and the people who pretend to play a tiny violin. / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=978 |
| Happy Birthday | [[Girl wears a party hat and Cat holds a present.]]
/ Girl: We celebrate birthdays for the new opportunities they give is. / Girl: Like "Happy eighteenth birthday, now you can chew tobacco and join the military without your parents' permission!" / Girl: "Happy twelfth birthday, welcome to the adult... http://catandgirl.com/?p=980 |
| Take Warning | [[Girl stops Cat.]]
/ Girl: Look both ways before you cross the street! / Girl: Turn the water off while you brush your teeth! / Girl: Don't stick your finger in the electrical socket! / [[Cat walks outside, finally alone.]]
/ Cat: I don't have to listen to her. / Cat: My only rule is that there are... http://catandgirl.com/?p=982 |
| United Nations Brunch Council | Girl: I'm Nigeria. Nigeria is the birthplace of Juju and Afrobeat. / Beatnik Vampire: I'm Slovakia. I celebrate May 8 as Victory over Fascism Day. / Mouse: I'm Saudi Arabia. Watch me dance the Ardha! / Boy: I'm Mongolia. I use Yak's milk butter as fuel for my lamps. / Grrrl: I'm Bolivia. I'm home... http://catandgirl.com/?p=984 |
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