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| Selling Out | [[Girl walks away from Cat.]] / Cat: Are you going? / Cat: Are you selling? / Cat: Out? / [[Girl turns.]]
/ Girl: NEVER! / Cat: Talk is talk. And comfort is comfort. / Cat: Marzipan doesn't stop being marzipan just because you shape it like little fruits.
/ Girl: I don't need mainstream society not... http://catandgirl.com/?p=336 |
| Going On | [[A map. Cat and Girl's route starts at the shining city of Idealism, goes past the Desert of Lost Bets and the Molly Pitcher Rest Area, and past the Train to Nowhere. They go over the River of Temporary Employment, down the Road of False Promise, and take a right at the Crossroads through the Used Mattress... http://catandgirl.com/?p=338 |
| Purgatory | [[A gas station stands alone in the desert. It has a skull for a logo, and the dollar amounts have all fallen off the sign. The convenience store is called "The Neither Here Nor There," and a vulture sits on its roof. Cat and Girl approach.]] / [[They enter the store.]] / [[There are barrels and barrels... http://catandgirl.com/?p=340 |
| Change | Girl: Even when we stand still / Girl: the earth moves beneath us. WE are moving. / Girl: Even when we maintain our position in society that society is changing around us. / Girl: CHANGE is the CONSTANT.
/ Cat: It's not enough! / Cat: It's not enough to change as a reaction to the world!
/ Girl: Then... http://catandgirl.com/?p=342 |
| Voter Resignation | [[Grrrl and the Beatnik Vampire sit at a bar. The Beatnik Vampire is drinking Pabst.]]
/ Grrrl: Rock the vote / Grrrl: Vote or DIE / Grrrl: Even THAT vestigial slogan speaks to a time of false hopes - a time now gone. / Grrrl: America has spent the last EIGHT YEARS digging itself into a hole / Grrrl:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=344 |
| Opposites | Girl: The opposite of a conclusion is a journey. / Cat: And the opposite of hot is cold. So? / Girl: The opposite of hot is sweet!
/ Cat: Only if you're talking about jazz or sausage. / Girl: The opposite of an article is an antarcticle. / Cat: The opposite of peanut butter is jelly.
/ Girl: The opposite... http://catandgirl.com/?p=346 |
| The Wall | [[A tall stone wall interrupted only by a pair of closed wooden doors.]] / Girl: Do you climb?
/ Cat: Only socially. / Girl: We have to get inside. But how? / Cat: Why? / Cat: There's no army after us. No promise ahead. / Cat: WHY do we have to get inside? / Girl: Because we've been everywhere outside... http://catandgirl.com/?p=348 |
| The Last Affordable Neighborhood in Brooklyn | [[Girl and the Beatnik Vampire walk out of the subway station.]]
/ Girl: No Fresh Direct?
/ Beatnik Vampire: They don't deliver here anymore. / [[They walk past a Checks Cashed storefront.]]
/ Vampire: Not since the incident.
/ Girl: And you feel safe? / [[They walk past Frankenberry's.]]
/ Vampire: Little... http://catandgirl.com/?p=358 |
| Behind Closed Doors | Cat: You've never seen a black helicopter?
/ Girl: Uh - / Girl: I think I rode in a black elevator once. / Cat: Was it run by secret society SKULL AND BONES?
/ Girl: How is it a secret society if everyone's heard of it? / Cat: They have secret levers of power.
/ Girl: It's called being an OLD WHITE GUY... http://catandgirl.com/?p=360 |
| Bad Ventriloquist | [[A ventriloquist drinks a glass of water.]] / [[His dummy watches him.]] / Dummy: What's in there? / Dummy: Is that water? / Dummy: Man I could use some water. / Dummy: Did you know I was - I was up until 4am last night / Dummy: Drinking Gin and Tonics, Vodka Tonics, Jaeger bombs / Dummy: until... http://catandgirl.com/?p=362 |
| Traditions | [[Cat and Girl walk in their winter clothes.]]
/ Girl: Santa Claus was born on the North Pole. / Girl: And he was raised by reindeer and he never had to go to school / Girl: which is why he liked children so much / Girl: that he decided to make toys for ALL of them / Girl: until he met some children... http://catandgirl.com/?p=364 |
| Let's Have a Party | Girl: You know what no one does anymore? / Cat: Write letters? / Cat: Eat veal? Watch Westerns? / Cat: Die of smallpox?
/ Girl: Perform TABLEAUX. / Girl: You know - We pick a famous image, like "Liberty Leading the People," and then we recreate it using costumes, props and ourselves! / Cat: That... http://catandgirl.com/?p=366 |
| Live Music | [[A Salvation Army Santa Claus rings a bell.]]
/ < http://catandgirl.com/?p=368 |
| Nice Things | [[Grrrl stands in the kitchen with a cup of coffee.]]
/ Grrrl: This is awful coffee. / Grrrl: But I don't want to drink GOOD coffee. What if I enjoyed it? / Grrrl: I don't WANT to taste the differences in wine beyond red, white or fortified. / Grrrl: What if I got used to apartments that weren't drafty... http://catandgirl.com/?p=370 |
| Do What That Cat Says | [[Cat holds a house cat in his arms.]]
/ Cat: Chairman Meow. / Girl: Fidel Catstro. / Cat: Furrranco. / Girl: Nikita Kuteschev. / Cat: Mousealini. / Girl: Vladimir Poopin. http://catandgirl.com/?p=372 |
| Self Help | [[Cat stands in a book store, looking at a shelf marked "Self Help."]] / [[He looks at the next shelf. The words "elf elp" are visible.]] / [[He opens a book.]] / Cat: "Five simple steps to self-actualization through toy-building." / [[Cat looks back at the shelf. The sign, revealed, says "Elf Help."]] / [[He... http://catandgirl.com/?p=374 |
| Secrets of the Sofas | Girl: The last of the American forests, gone - / Girl: replaced by a big box with a store inside. / Girl: Where will the feral children go? / Cat: One boy was abandoned in an Ikea and raised by affordable Swedish design. / Cat: The sofas named him Kramfors-Child and raised him as their own.
/ Girl:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=376 |
| What Makes Us Human | [[Cat sits at a desk with diplomas behind it.]]
/ Girl: Is a baby a person?
/ Cat: They can wear tiny clothes. / Girl: Is a fetus a person?
/ Cat: They can NOT wear tiny clothes. / Girl: Dogs can wear tiny clothes.
/ Cat: And they're adorable little people! / Girl: When does human life begin?
/ Cat: Graduate... http://catandgirl.com/?p=378 |
| Unicycle | [[Girl is in the bathroom brushing her teeth. Cat interrupts.]]
/ Cat: What's a unitard?
/ Girl: uh- / Girl: It's like a singlet. A tight one-piece clothing thing.
/ Cat: Oh. / Cat: What's a bi-tard?
/ Girl: Tandem unitards. / Cat: A tritard?
/ Girl: Waterproof unitard.
/ Cat: Quadrotard?
/ Girl: Movie starring... http://catandgirl.com/?p=380 |
| A Toast | [[The Beatnik Vampire considers the menu at a restaurant with pictures and pennants covering the walls.]]
/ Vampire: Slippery Nipple? Sex on the Beach? / Vampire: These are the names of drinks? / Vampire: I remember a time when drinks had respectable names. The Manhattan, the Brooklyn, the Throgs Neck. / Vampire:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=382 |
| Guess Who | [[Girl and Grrrl sit at a table playing "Guess Who."]]
/ Girl: Do they have... iconic facial hair?
/ Grrrl: Yes. / Girl: Are they a dictator?
/ Grrrl: Of course! / Girl: Some no-dictators have iconic facial hair! Like - / [[Girl ponders.]] / Girl: Abraham Lincoln. / Girl: And Steve Buscemi. / Girl:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=384 |
| Easy for them to say | [[Cat and Girl are watching television.]]
/ Cat: MORE babies? / Cat: What do we need MORE babies for? / Girl: To keep the price of spit-up below fifty dollars a barrel?
/ Cat: And have you tried holding a conversation with them? / Cat: "Mama!" "Papa!" / Cat: Not exactly a bunch of little Oscar Wildes.
/ Girl:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=386 |
| Noon | [[A house. Morning.]] / [[Cat lies in bed.]] / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=388 |
| The Usual Carcinogens | [[Cat puts his pipe in his mouth.]]
/ Cat: What's your guilty pleasure? / Girl: Pleasure is too rare a thing to feel guilty about.
/ Cat: But - / Cat: But what if your pleasure really IS guilty? / Cat: Like it killed a man in Reno just to watch him die.
/ Girl: You don't know anyone in Reno. / Cat:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=390 |
| Pop Art Paint by Numbers Kit | [[Girl is drawing at a desk.]]
/ Cat: Since when do you paint? / Girl: Since it's by number.
/ Cat: What's THAT supposed to be? / Girl: It's Jasper Johns' "Target with Four Faces!"
/ Cat: That's not art. / Girl: It's in the pop art paint by numbers kit. / [[Jasper Johns' "Target with Four Faces."]] / [[Andy... http://catandgirl.com/?p=392 |
| Shopper's Delight | Cat: How was the supermarket?
/ Girl: Heteronormative. / Girl: Mr. Peanut. Mrs. Buttersworth. / Girl: Mr. Coffee. Mrs. Dash.
/ Cat: The squares. / Girl: Mr. Goodbar. Swiss Miss.
/ Cat: The swingers! / Girl: The feminized products involved in the preparation of food.
/ Cat: I bet they all have dinner... http://catandgirl.com/?p=394 |
| The Road Less Traveled | [[Cat and Girl walk.]] / [[They walk into the desert.]] / Girl: Where are we? / Cat: We're - / Cat: We're - / Girl: We're lost.
/ Cat: I'll check the atlas. / Girl: The colossus of roads.
/ Cat: Aw nuts! / Girl: It's bad?
/ Cat: It looks like - / [[Night falls.]]
/ Cat: We should have gotten jobs... http://catandgirl.com/?p=396 |
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| Jury, Executioner | [[Girl is reading.]]
/ Cat: Franny and Zooey? / Cat: Boooooring. / Girl: You can't judge a book by its cover.
/ Cat: Sure I can! It's no hard. / Cat: If the cover has a picture of a pirate ship or a lady in a fast car or a guy in a hat with the gun / Cat: it's a good book.
/ Girl: I guess we judge people... http://catandgirl.com/?p=400 |
| Easy Diagnosis | [[Girl sits in a waiting room reading a magazine.]]
/ Cat: The good news is / Cat: it's not John Denver Syndrome. / Girl: John Denver Syndrome.
/ Cat: You know - / Girl: You get muppets?
/ Cat: It's fatal! / Cat: John Denver Syndrome is when you die in a way that you have to be totally rich to die in.
/ Girl:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=402 |
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