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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 big and scary and incomprehensible and became a source of images - images to be collected. / Cat: Just today I held a supermarket circular.
/ Girl: And those objects we made of the world were put in albums or stored in shoe boxes or printed in magazines / Cat: And ad for a Tyler Perry movie
/ Girl: Physical junk in a junk society - / Cat: And a picture of someone's lost puppy.
/ Girl: Until DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY - / Girl: When the reproduction of photographic images was liberated from the object! / Girl: And photographs became information junk.
/ Cat: I should have kept that puppy. 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 in a world where a war could be understood as a photograph of six men raising a flag. / Cat: Do you ever hear from him?
/ Girl: But the world has fired the wedding photographer and put digital cameras on all the tables at the reception / Cat: Maybe a postcard?
/ Girl: and we understand the truth as something not fixed in place by one person / Girl: but something built of many accounts and by many people - and living in the spaces between them. / Girl: And while the constant flow of digital images has its own meaning - the INDIVIDUAL message has NONE.
/ Girl: 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 it ye. But they will - they will - / Girl: They will. / Girl: To be photographed is to exist. / Girl: To be photographed is to be beautiful forever. / Cat: Or drunk at a party forever.
/ Girl: That is OK too. 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: No one takes pictures with a CAMERA any more. / Girl: Photography is the most modern of art forms!
/ Cat: Who's seen the modern world around lately? Anyone? / Cat: or did a stack of newspapers fall and bury him in his home?
/ Girl: We had plans to meet yesterday / Girl: At Johnny Rockets / Girl: but he was jumped by some locavores. 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: Watch out for the seagull! / [[Oh no!]] / [[Cat looks into the sardine tin.]]
/ Cat: I could live in here.
/ Girl: It's not much but it's home. 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 Pipe: {{41 to 11}} Invest in stocks
/ Sewer Pipe: {{19 to 19}} Graduate school
/ Escalator: {{36 to 53}} Know someone who knows someone
/ Sewer Pipe: {{31 to 5}} Quit your job to play poker online
/ Escalator: {{26 to 43}} Laugh at the boss' jokes
/ Escalator: {{23 to 29}} Graduate school
/ Escalator: {{12 to 27}} Be born middle class / [[Grrrl, Girl and Cat playing the game ]]
/ Grrrl: It's just arbitrary.
/ Cat: It's not arbitrary. I'm winning! 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 - people who get diabetes - / Beatnik Vampire: and people who have trouble falling asleep. / Beatnik Vampire: I need to make enough money to be in that LAST group. / [[Grrrl and the Beatnik Vampire look angrily at each other.]] / Grrrl: You know money won't make you happy.
/ Beatnik Vampire: It sure makes being unhappy easier. 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: It's called a phone.
/ Girl: Does it tell you how to live? What TRUTH means? / Cat: Hold on - No. But I can tell you how Kings Quest IV ended. / Cat: Maybe.
/ Girl: All the information in the world and half of its wrong. / Cat: And the ancient world was better? / Cat: Have fun with alchemy.
/ Girl: I can still turn unemployment into an iphone app! 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 DINOSAUR}} / {{tap tap tap}}
/ {{Upload Photo}}
/ {{Tag Photo}}
/ {{BAD DECISION DINOSAUR}} / [[Bad Decision Dinosaur stops typing to gaze at his computer screen.]] / [[Bad Decision Dinosaur's facebook page]]
/ {{Bad Decision Bear spent July napping, now having trouble getting hibernation going...}}
/ {{Bad Decision Bunny is putting four hundred more pictures of Floppy Junior online.}}
/ {{Bad Decision Bird took the quiz "What is your social security number"? Your social security number is}} 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 your DRIVE to WIN!
/ Girl: You're the ball - thwacked this way and that by a force that - if benevolent - could charitably be called incompetent. / [[Cat approaches the 19th hole.]]
/ Cat: Eighteen chances for power and glory.
/ Girl: and you're rolled into a clown's mouth and gone forever. / Cat: The ball MUST be SOMEWHERE.
/ Girl: Not the way I play. 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: Pffffff / Cat: And I can't drive while tex mexing.
/ Girl: It's dangerous! / Girl: Tex Mexing?
/ Cat: A little vihuela never hurt anyone. / Cat: And why do we drive on a parkway and cry in a driveway? / [[Cat worries.]] / Cat: Mother - I'm Sorry -
/ 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 the Nouveau Riche / Cat: America is ready to settle down with the good old middle class. / [[They sit.]] / Girl: I don't want to live in that world.
/ Cat: And it doesn't want you. 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: Enlisting words to obscure the truth
/ Grrrl: Obscuring the truth is one of society's main objectives / Grrrl: Or we might not realize how little it's all worth / [[ Cat tongue out ]]]
/ Grrrl: And then who would show up to work on time? / [[ Cat alone left, Girl and Grrrl together on right ]] / [[ Cat alone]]
/ Cat: I want my farm and bucket back. 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 they doing for TEN years? Clipping COUPONS? / Girl: We need to forget things before we want to remember them. / Cat: So flannel is back.
/ Girl: I was going to say. 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 biography claims he grew up in a Miami ghetto.
/ Cat: We all like to pretend! / Girl: In an America that considered itself an oligarchy BIRTH is what you ARE
/ Cat: I like to pretend that I live in the mall. / Girl: In a self-styled meritocracy you ARE how far you've COME
/ Cat: I sleep in the mattress store / Girl: The truth doesn't change but the lies do.
/ Cat: and eat all the soft pretzels I can carry. / Girl: I want to live in a lighthouse. 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 wholely yourself - / Girl: The next you are compromise between your true self and what you want from the world and what the world wants from you. / Cat: So you hit a certain age and then you have to subsume YOUR needs to the needs of society? / Girl: YES! / Cat: Why does that not strike me as a bad thing?
/ Girl: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON? 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 around ]] / Girl: We're doomed.
/ [[ Cat drops animal ]]
/ Cat: Drinky birds! 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 of our short step from the void / Girl: to grant is the awareness of all that nothing? / Girl: Or is there a world above the clouds?
/ Cat: Yeah but it's covered in bird crap. 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: long enough to call NPR and complain that the American Songbook died with Gershwin / Cat: to see who maintains their devotion
/ Girl: no WONDER they're scared. / Cat: To tradition-bound Eurocentric GREAT ART.
/ Girl: We have the WHOLE WORLD. / Girl: And we see it all from our computers.
/ Cat: To the INTERNET - where you and I are going to spend the REST of our LIVES! 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 just have straws. / [[Cat and Girl worry.]] / [[Cat looks down at his socks and is happy again.]] 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 BETWEEN those groups.
/ Cat: Promote cohesiveness - distinguish between - same fish different sauce. / Girl: Sometimes I'm afraid that NOTHING could really bring us all together.
/ Cat: Alien attack / Cat: World War / Cat: Flu epidemic. / Cat: The end. / [[Girl is left alone in her bedroom, staring into the dark.]] 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 been a YEAR
/ Girl: It's exhausting. / Cat: Just one day
/ Cat: 365 times
/ Girl: To experience everything anew every day. / Cat: I am going to get on my boat and sail where the wind TAKES me.
/ Girl: While keeping track of stuff like your zip plus four. / Cat: And when I hit land
/ Cat: I will walk until I find a town where
/ Cat: mustaches are SINCERE - and BEARDS are ironic-
/ Cat: and I will PLANT my oar in the ground and say
/ Cat: {{ darkly }} my new live starts here. / Girl: you don't have a boat. / [[ Cat holds drink ]] / [[ Cat, in bathroom, holding oar and wearing sailor suit. Talks to snake-like creature with round spikes on its back, who is swimming in tub ]]
/ Cat: Get out of the tub. 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 man, balding: I live in your neighborhood.
/ L-pu woman, with hoodie: We met at a party. I'm Steve's friend! / L-pu daddy: I'm his cousin.
/ Cat: {{darkly}} oh god. / L-pu daddy: Do you want to see pictures of my baby?
/ Cat: It's my social network. / Cat: UNTIE ME
/ L-pu woman, with scarf: Where would you go? http://catandgirl.com/?p=2244 |
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