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Guardian Angel	[[The Alone Ranger sits on a bench in a park.]] / [[He is looking at a bar called "Enabler's."]] / [[Bad Decision is sitting on the bench beside the Alone Ranger.]] / [[The Alone Ranger considers.]] / [[Bad Decision Dinosaur stares.]] / [[The Alone Ranger is gone.]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=191
Extreme Tourism	Girl: A history of brutal exploitation. / [[Cat and Girl are in a rowboat, heading into a swamp.]] / Girl: Back when it was called THE BELGIAN WAFFLE - the personal property of King Leopold. / [[They walk into the marsh...]] / Girl: Managed for the personal gains of its overseas overlords - exporting... http://catandgirl.com/?p=193
Winners and Losers	[[Girl and Grrrl are in a store talking to the lady behind the counter.]] / Lady: Can I help you with anything? / Grrrl: No. / Girl: Just looking. / Lady: You do need to buy something if you want your life validated. / Girl: OK. / [[Girl and Grrrl walk outside.]] / Grrrl: Well there goes that. / Girl:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=195
This Means War	[[Cat and Girl sit in a car. Cat is driving. Girl turns on the radio.]] / <> / Radio: ...NPR business news starts with junking your electronic... / Radio: ...the EPA's latest figures show that Americans threw... / <> / [[Cat changes the station.]] / Radio: Badadadadaboop wuwuwu biboop-ba... http://catandgirl.com/?p=210
A Cultural History of I Don't Own a Television	[[Cat, holding a scythe, dressed in some kind of medieval peasant clothing outside of a castle.]] / Cat: I don't own a te-le-vision. / [[A vampire in a suit, hair slicked back, standing outside of a television store.]] / Vampire: I don't own a television. / [[Girl in a babushka, holding a basket of potatoes.... http://catandgirl.com/?p=213

Nature's Doomed Adolescents	Grrrl: I can't wait for high school! / Girl: What? / Grrrl: That doomed transitional stage - / Grrrl: High school is our last chance! / Girl: To sell beach towels for the marching band? / Grrrl: To deal with all elements of society as equals. / Grrrl: Before being branded and shuffled off to the work... http://catandgirl.com/?p=215
Proverbs and Plagues	Cat: When life gives you lemons make lemonade. / Girl: When life gives you limes? / Cat: Gin and tonic! / Girl: When life hands you a pickle ask to substitute coleslaw. / Cat: When life gives margarine pray for butter. / Cat: When life gives you astronauts / Girl: insist on the futility of the shuttle... http://catandgirl.com/?p=217
Reincarnation	Girl: LPs to CDs to mp3s - music continues to decorporealize. / Girl: But when I look at lists of mp3s I feel the same sense of ownership that I do when browsing my bookcase. / Grrrl: Scarcity. / Girl: What? / Grrrl: What if you delete an mp3 and you can never find it again? Without scarcity ownership... http://catandgirl.com/?p=219
Exponential Bloat	Girl: We download music to own it. / Grrrl: We download music because it's easy! / Girl: Pointing - clicking - waiting - / Grrrl: Podcasts! / Girl: Uploading... waiting... / Girl: Downloading is inconvenient. / Girl: And very few things in life are strong enough to withstand the tidal forces of convenience. / Grrrl:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=221
Matters of Taste	[[Girl and Grrrl walk from the graveyard into town.]] / [[Girl picks up a mango on a stick.]] / [[They enter a bodega.]] / Girl: Radio! / Girl: Radio is CONVENIENT and INFINITE. / Grrrl: The RADIO plays CRAP. / Girl: But - / Grrrl: And it's not MY crap! http://catandgirl.com/?p=223

What Remains	[[A graveyard. The tombstone reads "Scarcity." Arms emerge from the earth.]] / [[A zombie kicks his way out of the grave.]] / [[The zombie wears jeans, a striped shirt and a blazer with pins on the lapel. He walks away from his grave.]] / [[The zombie gazes up at the moon.]] / [[He looks down at... http://catandgirl.com/?p=225
Natural Law	Girl: It's the ADVANTAGE of broadcast medium that you don't control what you get. / Grrrl: So instead / Grrrl: of choosing our own soundtrack, one is IMPOSED - is that the time? / Grrrl: I should get going. / Grrrl: It's just a it's a weekly thing. The old technology swapmeet. / Grrrl: Just a bunch... http://catandgirl.com/?p=227
A Pirate's Life	[[Cat and Girl are on board a ship. Cat is dressed like a pirate.]] / Cat: Some people are in it for the ADVENTURE. Some like the challenge of life on the sea. / Cat: Some people are in it for the money. Some people are ALWAYS in it for the money. / Cat: And some people join for the FREEDOM. / Cat:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=229
The Ruler	[[Cat measures the top of a table.]] / [[Cat measures the height of a sandwich.]] / [[Cat carries the ruler down the hallway.]] / [[Cat measures a room.]] / [[Cat measures a chair.]] / [[Cat measures the width of the floor.]] / [[Cat measures the height of the floor.]] / [[Girl is outside with... http://catandgirl.com/?p=231
Model UN	Girl: The halls - the benches - the potted plants - / Girl: The mall is a parody of public space. / Cat: A parody of a poem is still a poem. / Girl: A public square stripped of everything but commerce - / Girl: With private security enforcing the mores of commerce. / Cat: People just want a place to... http://catandgirl.com/?p=233

Processor	[[Grrrl stands in front of a curtain in a lab coat, lecturing Boy.]] / Grrrl: What is it that we do in our daily lives? / Boy: Suffer? / Grrrl: We take the raw material of the world around us / Grrrl: and process it into the finished material of our thoughts, our conversation, our art. / Grrrl: What... http://catandgirl.com/?p=241
Habitrail Heart	[[Grrrl, wearing a lab coat, stands in front of a curtain pulled back to reveal a television behind it.]] / Grrrl: I want to encourage deliberate action - / Grrrl: The viewer taking an aggressive role in what is being viewed. / [[Boy raises his hand.]] / Grrrl: Converting a passive medium to an active... http://catandgirl.com/?p=243
Out	[[The empty sky, and sand.]] / [[The empty sky, and sand.]] / <> / [[Cat and Girl appear, thrown from the right and heading for the ground.]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=245
Expulsion	[[Two wooden doors in the entrance past a tall stone wall lie open. A man is speaking from inside the wall.]] / Man: And stay out! / <> / [[The doors shut.]] / [[Cat and Girl stare back at the wall.]] / Girl: You couldn't talk politely about Whole Foods for half an hour? / Cat: Well / Cat: We'll... http://catandgirl.com/?p=247
Original Sin	[[Cat and Girl are walking through the desert, away from Compromise.]] / Girl: I'm never going back. / Cat: But we could - / Girl: Of course we could - they need us! / Girl: Anyone living outside of Compromise delegitimizes everyone inside! / Girl: Citizens of Compromise don't want to believe there's... http://catandgirl.com/?p=249

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Obligations	[[The Alone Ranger opens his window and looks out.]] / [[He walks down the street in a scarf and winter hat.]] / [[He sits in a park playing Parcheesi with Grrrl.]] / [[He buys a tofu dog from a street vendor.]] / [[He sits on a bench to eat his tofu dog, where he's joined by a little bird.]] / [[He... http://catandgirl.com/?p=255
Ladies and Gentlemen	Dorothy:<> / Dorothy: So Cat and Girl are - / Dorothy: Well anyway I'm away this week. / Dorothy: Not this week for me - for me I'm going away next week. / Dorothy: As I write this I've been scrambling to finish two weeks of cartoons in four days while washing clothes and packing and sewing... http://catandgirl.com/?p=257
Mono	[[Boy sits in front of the television.]] / <> / <> / [[Boy walks down the street with Grrrl.]] / Boy: It's easy to romanticize the past. / Boy: But still - I envy life in a time of just three channels. / Grrrl: Watching twelve dogs balance plates on their noses isn't... http://catandgirl.com/?p=259

Beyond Reach	[[Boy and Grrrl walk along a city street.]] / Grrrl: Globalism gives us new better different options - / Boy: So the whole world can look like America? / Grrrl: So America looks like the world! / [[Cat and Girl wander through the desert.]] / Boy: Cities maybe - but once you head into the world's countryside... http://catandgirl.com/?p=261
Home	[[Cat and Girl in the desert.]] / [[Cat looks back.]] / [[Tall buildings appear in the distance.]] / [[They are approaching a city.]] / [[Girl smiles.]] / [[They walk into the city.]] / [[Cat and Girl see Boy sitting on a bench, reading.]] / [[Boy looks up.]] / Girl: We're back! / Boy: You le... http://catandgirl.com/?p=263
Teamwork	<> / [[Boy is in bed, the covers puled over his face, when his alarm clock rings.]] / Boy: What's the POINT? / Boy: I sit around with these - feelings. / Boy: Other people sit around with CABLE. At least that's INTERESTING. / Boy: Feelings without ACTION are worth a fist full of SNOT! / Stuffed... http://catandgirl.com/?p=266
Plate Byronics	Boy: Do you ever want to be an artist? / Grrrl: What's the point? Everything's already been made. / Grrrl: The artist is the expired ideal of a dead age. / Grrrl: Some romantic figure standing outside of society speaking truth to power. / Grrrl: Well WELCOME to the MODERN WORLD! / Grrrl: That homogenous... http://catandgirl.com/?p=268
Bad News Bear	[[The Beatnik Vampire is sitting down in front of his television with a sandwich.]] / <> / [[Grrrl and Boy are at the door.]] / Grrrl: We're going to a movie! / Grrrl: Get your coat! / Vampire: What movie? / Boy: It's about - / Grrrl: It's about a group of plucky misfits - / Boy:... http://catandgirl.com/?p=270

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