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On Digital Photography Girl: Do you remember photographs? / Cat: Like on Facebook? / Girl: Photographs - the image turned object - / Cat: I think I saw that in a movie once. / Girl: And when we held this object in our hands and looked out at the world - / Cat: I hold pictures in my hands all the time. / Girl: it stopped being...
On Digital Photography [[Girl draws an imaginary box in the air with her finger.]] / Girl: The photograph captured a moment - / Girl: elevated that moment by deeming it WORTHY of capture - / Girl: back when photography was bound by the finite limits of chemical reactions - / Cat: I hope the moment got away. / Girl: Back...
On Digital Photography Girl: Photographs capture the disappearing world / Girl: so they become more interesting as they age and as they develop the patina of age. / Girl: I KNOW what you're going to say. / Cat: You do? / Girl: "Digital photographs don't have a patina!" / Cat: I was? / Girl: We just haven't learned to see...
On Digital Photography Girl: Photography is commodified seeing. / Girl: When we photograph ourselves indulging in leisure / Girl: that leisure is in service of creating a product - and IMAGE - / Girl: so that even our leisure time can be called PRODUCTIVE. / Girl: To wield a camera - / Cat: {{snicker}} / Girl: WHAT? / Cat:...
Great Escapes Cat: Ooooooh! / Cat: Sardines. / Girl: It's empty? / Cat: They couldn't have gone far. / [[Girl points, excited.]] / Girl: The river! / [[They look down into the river.]] / Girl: Imagine spending months in a dark and wet little room packed with strangers. / Girl: And now they're FREE / [[They smile.]] / Cat:...
 
Escalator to Success {{Game grid of escalators and sewer pipes, numbered 64 to 1, where 64 is top left. Starting at 64}} / Sewer Pipe: {{62 to 40}} Find yourself / Sewer Pipe: {{59 to 21}} Health insurance won't cover hookworm / Escalator: {{48 to 51}} Work hard / Sewer Pipe: {{46 to 1}} At least things can't get worse / Sewer...
Value Menu [[Grrrl and the Beatnik Vampire sit at a McDonalds. The Beatnik Vampire is eating a burger. Outside, under the golden arches, the McDonalds sign says "Protect Me From What I Want."]] / Beatnik Vampire: I figure there are three kinds of people. / Beatnik Vampire: People who don't get enough to eat -...
Birnam Wood [[Cat and Girl walk through the woods.]] / Girl: We're lost in the fog of information. / Cat: It's not foggy. / Girl: It's a METAPHOR. / Cat: And we're lost in a forest. / Girl: Stupid Google maps. / Girl: The library of Alexandria contained all the knowledge of the ancient world and now we have - / Cat:...
Sharing [[Bad Decision Dinosaur walks through a park eating an ice cream cone.]] / [[Bad Decision Dinosaur holds his camera out to take a picture of himself in the park. Ice cream is smeared around his mouth.]] / [[Bad Decision Dinosaur sits in front of a computer typing.]] / {{tap tap tap}} / {{Login: BAD DECISION...
Secular Humanists [[Cat holds a putter.]] / Cat: GOLF / Cat: the game of life. / Cat: Mini Golf - the game of little lives. / Girl: Mini Golf is a good windmill spoiled. / Cat: Man against the elements! / Girl: It's agonizing and costs money and I always lose. / Cat: Nothing between you and the felt but the CLUB and...
 
On Safari [[Cat and Girl are hiding behind a bush.]] / Girl: Sssssshh / Cat: What are we looking for? / Girl: Inspiration. / Cat: That's a tough nut. / Girl: Sssshhhh! / [[They wait.]] / Cat: When I was small we'd go hunting for Ho-Hos / Cat: All you needed was a Ding-Dong and a net. / <> / Girl: The trap! / [[Girl...
Borderline Cat: We're going for a ride! / Cat: I'll need a drink. / Girl: I'll get snacks! / [[Cat is eating paint.]] / Girl: Where are we going? / Cat: Up - / Cat: In the sky where - clouds / Cat: ... / [[Cat gazes at nothing, smiling, seemingly at peace or intoxicated.]] / Girl: You can't drive like this. / Cat:...
J. Cr?e [[Cat and Girl sit on the beach.]] / Girl: Why the sudden mainstream cultural interest / Girl: in acapella groups and show choirs? / Cat: Maybe after the heady rush of cheap consumer products, My Super Sweet 16, variable rate mortgages on cheaply built homes with two story foyers and an obsession with...
Do It Yourselfers Girl: I found a book in the garbage! / Cat: I got movies! / Girl: "Have a nice day." / Cat: Christmas 1988. / Girl: "Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools." / Cat: A ukulele with no strings! / Girl: "Monster in law." / Cat: Uno! / Girl: I can't wait to get home! / <> / Girl: We can add these...
A Town Called Euphemism [[Cat, Girl, and Grrrl are strolling in a country field]] / Girl: Passed away. / Grrrl: Left the building. / Cat: Kicked the bucket. Bought the Farm / Cat: Restructuring. / Grrrl: Redundancies. / Girl: Ladies' room. / Cat: Fraternal Order / Grrrl: Listener supported / Cat: Social networks / Girl: Interesting. / Girl:...
 
Last Call Girl: Every day at Eight PM / [[Cat and Girl walk away from a giant arch]] / Girl: a bugleman has sounded LAST POST at Ypres / Girl: in remembrance of soldiers who died there in the First World War / Girl: a war that ended in 1918. / [[Cat and Girl stare out across a graveyard.]] / Cat: So what were...
Available Everywhere [[Cat is drinking a can of soda.]] / Cat: <> / Cat: <> / Cat: <> / Cat: Ah / Girl: That's the FIFTH can you've had of - / Girl: Mr. Pib. Doctor Thunder? / Cat: Doctor Health Insurance. / Girl: It SOUNDS like something I'd like. / Cat: You win FREE SHOES...
Noise Complainer [[It's night. From the street, all lights are off except for one.]] / [[The Beatnik Vampire sits at a desk writing while noise comes from next door.]] / <> / Beatnik Vampire: Cut it out! / [[The noise continues.]] / [[The Beatnik Vampire leaves his apartment carrying a pillow and a...
Self-Made Up Girl: Kalil Gibran. Vanilla Ice. / Cat: I would - / Cat: WHAT game is this? / Girl: Kalil Gibran / Girl: moved from poverty in Ottoman Syria to poverty in Boston in 1895 / Girl: but he claimed to be of ROYAL ancestry. / Girl: Vanilla Ice grew up in middle class South Florida but his 1991 authorized...
The White Mountains [[Cat and Girl are hiding in a trench. Girl wears a helmet.]] / Girl: You've got to lie low once maturity hits. / Girl: Stick your head out of the parapet and - / Girl: BAM! They flatten you into the ground! / Girl: Maintaining the glossy smooth surface of civilization. / Girl: One minute you are...
 
A Shotglass in the Dark [[ Girl and Cat standing outside the door of a shop ]] / Girl: A gift shop / [[ Girl and inside the store, in front of shelves of stuffed animals, hats, t-shirts ]] / Girl: is a store full of things / Girl: no one would every buy for themselves. / [[ Cat snuggles stuffed animal ]] / [[ Cat and Girl look...
Higher Ground Girl: If our lives are that brief moment of transit / Girl: from nothing and back to nothing again / Girl: good intentions are worthless. Good deeds too - / Girl: Money doesn't matter. Friends don't matter. / Girl: Success is meaningless. Even FAILURE is meaningless. / Girl: Is the only purpose...
CCTV Girl: One day it was just gone. / Girl: POOF! The upper middle class lost its canon. / Cat: Have you checked everywhere? / Girl: Leaving the last of its aging honor guard / Cat: Maybe it moved. / Girl: to unwrap themselves from their faded oriental carpets / Cat: Maybe it's hiding and watching us / Girl:...
Small Pleasures Cat: Novelty socks! / Cat: Novelty socks. / Cat: Novelty socks! / Girl: Ugh. / Girl: Novelty socks say "I'm a little wacky once you get to know me." / Cat: I AM a little wacky once you get to know me. / Girl: WACKY is HUMOR without the teeth. / Cat: Not everyone can afford teeth! / Cat: Some people...
Bed Time Theories Cat: Once upon a time in a kingdom far away / Cat: Everyone listened to the same music and watched the same TV shows. / Girl: LIAR. / Cat: YOU can read and I can go to sleep. / Girl: Maybe there was greater cohesiveness WITHIN social and economic groups / Girl: But culture was used PRIMARILY to distinguish...
 
Are Friends Elastic? <> / [[Cat bounces a rubber ball off a paddle.]] / <> / <> / Girl: Why aren't we CHANGING? / Cat: Into what? / Girl: I don't know - some newer version of ourselves. / Cat: I have a blazer! / <> / <> / [[Whiskers start to grow on Cat's face.]] / Girl: Society...
Old Friends [[Bad Decision Dinosaur sits at home eating snacks and watching television. He's dressed as a sailor.]] / <> / [[Cat and Girl are at the door in costume.]] / Girl: I'm Dark Secret, and this is - / [[Cat holds a finger to his lips.]] / Cat: the Shame. / BDD: YOU FOUND ME / [[Bad Decision Dinosaur...
Subletters [[ Cat at bar, smiling ]] / Bartender: The usual? / [[ Cat at hot dog stand, not smiling ]] / Vendor: The usual? / [[ Cat at candy stand, angry ]] / Vendor: The usual? / Cat: {{darkly}} You don't know me. / Cat: and YES / [[ Cat, with straw in drink, walks with Girl on cliff by an ocean]] / Cat: this hasn't...
The Doomed Voyage <> / [[Cat is at sea in a boat made of a bathtub and a sail.]] / <> / [[The tub's claw feet propel him in the opposite direction.]] / <> / Cat: ADVENTURE - mff - / <> / [[Clouds roll in.]] / Cat: Life without the numbing effects of / Cat:...
The Trap [[Cat tied down in fetal position, on beach, like Gulliver on the Lilliputian's island]] / Cat: Zzz / [[Cat awakens]] / Cat: mMmMMrgh / [[Group of tiny Lilliputian like people gather & stare, including a daddy holding baby]] / Cat: Do I KNOW you? / Lilliputian woman, with scarf: We went to college together. / L-pu...
 

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