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Internship Camp <> / <> / <> / <> / <> / Cat: Oof! / Cat: Sometimes the money doesn't seem worth the trouble. / Girl: You're getting PAID? / Girl: I'm getting school credit. / [[Cat and Girl look at Boy.]] / Boy: I'm just doing this for the exposure.
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Packing [[Girl looks at the sun.]] / [[Girl looks behind her at a cloud.]] / [[Girl looks up. Clouds blanket the sky.]] / [[Girl is really worried. The sky is black. Cat appears.]] / [[Cat walks up to Girl.]] / [[They both look up at the night sky.]] / Girl: We're all going to die. / Cat: I'll bring snacks!
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The Rebel Grrrl: Ahem - We're here today / Grrrl: to dedicate this memorial to / Grrrl: the last generation who couldn't play their instruments! / Audience: <> / Grrrl: It seems - ahem - it seems only appropriate / Grrrl: to bring up a few members of that generation for some unintelligible speeches. / Audience: <> / Grrrl: Ladies and gentlemen Mark E. Smith!
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Cat and Girl Sell Out [[Cat and Girl smile cheerfully.]] / [[again...]] / [[Girl's smile is looking a little strained.]] / [[Girl glances down. Her smile is increasingly strained.]] / [[Yup, Girl's smile is awfully strained, near to breaking.. Cat smiles genuinely at Girl.]] / Cat: Why are YOU so happy? / Girl: It was in the contract.
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Birds of America [[Cat and Girl standing under a tree, a bird singing on a branch just above them.]] / Bird: -singing- / Girl: The Bluebird of Happiness! / [[Another tree, another bird, this time in a nest.]] / Bird: -singing- / Girl: The Sparrow of Complacency! / [[Yet another tree and another bird they stand beneath. Cat grimaces at the noise.]] / Bird: -SQUAWK!- / Girl: The Mockingbird of Obscurity. / [[Suddenly it all goes dark and everything starts shaking around them.]] / <> / Girl: And... / [[A hoard of giant birds race over and around our heroes, the dust of their passage blotting out the sun.]] / Birds: AK! AK! AK! AK! AK! / [[Cat is lying on the ground, broken and tattered, with Girl huddled next to him. They are still enveloped in dust.]] / Girl: The Emus of Futility.
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The Slipstream [[Cat and Girl stand up to their knees in water. Girl is holding a net.]] / Girl: An insider is someone who got there five minutes before you. / Girl: The expert is the person who starts talking first. / Girl: The Historian is the one who finishes talking last. / Girl: The trick is to look into the stream of time / [[They look down.]] / Girl: and put your net down in the right place. / Cat: How can contemporary art be by dead people?
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The Labors of Hercules Grrrl: I will not enjoy music I hear on NPR. / Grrrl: I will not enjoy music I hear on NPR. / Grrrl: I will NOT enjoy music I hear on NPR. / [[Grrrl looks at her stereo.]] / [[She shivers with anger.]] / [[She reaches up to turn the radio on.]] / Radio: {{music notes}} / Grrrl: AUGH
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Maladaptive [[Grrrl holds her head in her hands while listening to the radio.]] / Radio: Are you ashamed of us? / Grrrl: I'm ashamed of me! / Radio: We thought you were committed to the idea that all context was created equal. / Grrrl: Except for context MEANT to appeal to me! / Radio: We're just looking out for you. / Grrrl: You're looking out for your own agenda. / Radio: MFFFFF - public radio doesn't HAVE an agenda. / Grrrl: Everything has an agenda - / Grrrl: To push toward a world in which it can survive and multiply. / Radio: REALLY. / Grrrl: Those plastic water bottles were really convenient!
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Plato's Cave [[Cat and Girl stand in a cave watching shadows on the wall.]] / [[Cat eats popcorn.]] / <> / Girl: We never get good seats to ANYTHING.
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Arrivals Lounge Announcer: BEEEEEEP - the express train from fifteen years ago is arriving on track six. / Grrrl: Grrrl - / Past Grrrl: Grrrl! / Past Grrrl: Here's the case of OK Cola - / Past Grrrl: and the latest issue of "Might." / Grrrl: Five Hi8 cameras, gently used. / Past Grrrl: Any advice? / Grrrl: Enjoy shrimp while you can / Announcer: ALL ABOARD / Grrrl: and Jay Reatard. / Past Grrrl: What's it REALLY like? / Grrrl: The future? / Past Grrrl: The ROBOTS - the COMPUTERS - genome mapping - clones! - electric cars - VIRTUAL REALITY. / Grrrl: I knit and - I garden. / Grrrl: Lots of people make their own pickles.
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Go Getters [[A day at the beach. Cat is carrying a box and a crutch.]] / Cat: Crutches! / [[children playing in the sea]] / Cat: Hot fresh crutches / Boy: What do you have? / Cat: Chocolate, strawberry / Cat: [[pulling out a crutch]] And metaphorical. / Boy: I'll take two! / [[Cat pulls out a small notepad]] / <> / Cat: Create a self-image based on the consumption of cultural goods and - / Boy: [[thinks]] / Cat: Define yourself in opposition to the majority. / [[Boy gets an idea, beaming]] / [[Cat sees another customer approaching]] / Girl: I'll have strawberry. / Boy: [[scowling]] EVERYONE gets strawberry.
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Silent Spring [[Cat and Girl stare at each other in silence.]] / Girl: There is social pressure to talk - / Girl: even when you have nothing to say. / Cat: Talking isn't about what you're saying! / Cat: It's GREASE for social interaction - / Girl: Communication is about IDEAS / Cat: Communication is old jokes and bad gossip and stories we share so we don't all want to kill each other absolutely all the time. / Girl: It's not working. / Cat: Who wants fried chicken?
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Second Comings Girl: Do you remember meaning? / Cat: I remember orange juice. / Girl: It seems like so long ago-- / Cat: Orange juice was made of oranges. / Girl: that meaning was shot and dumped in the river / Cat: Orange DRINK is made of the IDEA of oranges. / Girl: by those thugs science and commerce. / Cat: Orange drink has been to space! / Girl: And we lived for so long without it / Cat: Orange dish soap / Cat: Orange air freshener / Girl: that when it reappeared / Cat: Fresh-squeezed pesticide-free organic orange juice from local fruit! / Girl: we mistook it for morality. / Cat: Are you ladies SISTERS?
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Precious Moments Girl: I'm hunting / Girl: hunting for the good times. / Girl: It's easiest to see them / Girl: through the distorted lens of the past. / Girl: Though sometimes / Girl: I wonder if they exist at all. / Cat: I've seen them! / Girl: I remember BAD TIMES-- / Girl: We've all seen bad times. / Cat: I took a picture! / Girl: Maybe all good times EVER was-- / Cat: But it came out blurry. / Girl: was the daily routine of everyday life when bad times are absent. / <>
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Old Friends Girl: Everyone wants to be included. / Cat: Is that still true? / Girl: But it doesn't have to stay that way! / <> / <> / Girl: Hand me the Catcher in the Rye and Heathers. / <> / Boy: When you're a nail / Boy: EVERYTHING looks like a hammer. / Girl: Spit in this. / <> / Cat: Is it better to worry / Cat: about never becoming an individual / Cat: or about forever being alone? / Cat: Or are both fears only justification for the petty plans of our egos? / <> / <> / Girl: We've over-romanticized the outsider! / Cat: I have the fire department on speed dial. / <> / Cat: Hey Bruce.
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Origin of the Specious [[Girl is talking to Cat, who is eying his pipe.]] / Girl: Religion wasn't always religion / Girl: For a long time it was reality / [[Cat begins smoking the pipe.]] / Girl: And the world was unimaginable incomprehensible without it. / [[Smoke starts to fill the room.]] / Girl: But then people who grew up with religion as the sole explanation for the workings of the world / Girl: Saw it crumble replaced by science / Girl: And one day something new will come / Girl: And science will be gone. / [[Girl is no longer in the scene; Cat strokes his pipe thoughtfully.]] / [[Cat's pipe is falling out of his mouth and the smoke is gone.]] / Cat: Prove it!
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Darwin and Everything After <> / [[A freight train rolls through the desert, Cat and Girl sitting inside.]] / Girl: It's a natural tendency - / Girl: to see our current self as the pinnacle of our own personal revolution. / Girl: and our past, more variant selves as just mis-steps along the way. / Girl: But THOSE selves are JUST as valid! / Girl: Even if we can no longer remember who they were / Girl: Why they did what they did / Girl: or all that we've left behind. / Cat: YOU wanted to move forward! / <> / Cat: Stop complaining about the view.
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