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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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2147 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2148 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2149 |
| 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:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2150 |
| 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:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2157 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2158 |
| 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 -... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2159 |
| 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:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2160 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2161 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2162 |
| 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.
/ < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2163 |
| 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:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2164 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2167 |
| 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!
/ < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2168 |
| 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:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2174 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2175 |
| Available Everywhere | [[Cat is drinking a can of soda.]]
/ Cat: < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2180 |
| 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.]] / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2181 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2183 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2184 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2185 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2233 |
| 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:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2234 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2235 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2236 |
| Are Friends Elastic? | < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2239 |
| Old Friends | [[Bad Decision Dinosaur sits at home eating snacks and watching television. He's dressed as a sailor.]]
/ < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2240 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2241 |
| The Doomed Voyage | < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2243 |
| 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... http://catandgirl.com/?p=2244 |
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