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| The Searchers | [[Cat and Girl look across the empty desert as a tumbleweed rolls by.]] / Cat: This used to be LEGITIMACY country / Cat: but no one's seen her since print died. / Girl: That was AGES ago
/ Cat: Now it's ruled by her BEAUTIFUL sister / Cat: AUTHENTICITY
/ Girl: Self-expression's girl? He seems nice at first but he's a TYRANT. / Cat: Law's just the gang with the badges
/ Girl: and it's easy to be nostalgic for yesterday's problems! / Cat: At least when PRINT was around I had something to read in the bathroom. / Girl: THAT'S your main concern?
/ Cat: I hate spending time with myself. http://catandgirl.com/?p=2776 |
| A Short History of Gossip | < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2778 |
| Postdestination | Cat: What are you doing next year? / Girl: Don't ask about the future. / Cat: The future is exciting!
/ Girl: Time doesn't just go by. It passes judgement. / Cat: But the future can be whatever we make it!
/ Girl: Until the past is nothing but how we choose to remember it. / Girl: We can control our past? / Girl: but the future determines itself. /
/ Cat: What are you doing last year?
/ Girl: Same old, same old. http://catandgirl.com/?p=2780 |
| Conspicuous Purgatory | [[Cat and Girl stand in front of an old Model T.]]
/ Cat: Any color you want so long as it's black. / [[They are in an office.]]
/ Cat: The standard - or the princess phone. / [[Cat is behind a soda counter.]]
/ Cat: Hamburger Cheeseburger or Chamburgurgle? / Girl: ONE phone company - THREE car companies - and every house looks the same! / Girl: A cultural conformity determined by the methods of mass production - / Girl: CAN I be an individual without CHOICE?
/ Cat: Girl - wake up - wake up - / [[Cat shakes Girl awake. She has been dreaming. They are both now standing in front of a display case full of cell phones.]] / [[Girl looks at all the phones.]] / Girl: CAN I be an individual?
/ Cat: INDIVIDUALS use IPHONES. http://catandgirl.com/?p=2782 |
| There's No Reward | Cat: I've been up since five am. / The Alone Ranger: I brush AND floss - TWICE a day! / Girl: I finished "Gravity's Rainbow." / Beatnik Vampire: I bought a house I could AFFORD. / Rabbit: I try to think only nice things. / Grrrl (in a nun's habit): I've devoted my life to service. / Boy: My inbox is EMPTY. / [[Boy taps at his computer in the dark.]]
/ < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2787 |
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| It's Potluck, Bad Decision Dinosaur | [[Bad Decision Dinosaur is walking a ham on a leash.]] / [[He hides the ham in his jacket and buys a movie ticket.]] / [[He reads to the ham in bed by candlelight.]] / [[Girl and Bad Decision Dinosaur are at the beach eating popsicles.]] / [[Bad Decision Dinosaur offers some popsicle to his ham.]] / Girl: You are TOO OLD for a security ham.
/ Bad Decision Dinosaur: < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2794 |
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| Stuck in the Middle | [[Hills]]
/ Girl: When a year falls out of what we think of as the present
/ Girl: it should belong to the past / Cat: It should?
/ Girl: But it doesn't
/ Girl: Not right away / Girl: There's an Uncanny Valley
/ Cat: Of course! / [[Mountains]]
/ Girl: The news events not quite history
/ Cat: In the Weird Mountains! / Girl: Hairstyles not quite current
/ Cat: They make ranch dressing / Girl: and kitchens people are in a hurry to remodel.
/ Cat: but it tastes a little off. / [[Desert, with dark clouds]]
/ Girl: The No-man's land between Classic and Contemporary
/ Girl: =Barren=
/ Girl: =Uninviting=
/ Cat: We should go! / Cat: I bet it has thrift stores.
/ Girl: It's nothing But thrift stores. http://catandgirl.com/?p=2831 |
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| There's Always Something Better Going On | [[Grrrl, at a bus stop]]
/ m-Bird: Caw
/ Other m-Bird: Caw / [[Grrrl checks phone]] / [[Grocery Store, Aisle 4. Grrrl still reading phone]] / [[Coffee Shop. Grrrl reads phone while others engage in life.]] / [[On the street. Grrrl still reading phone as Girl approaches.]]
/ Girl: Hey / Grrrl: < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2863 |
| Haunted | [[Cat, Boy, Grrrl, and Girl on a hill in a cemetery]]
/ Cat: We are gathered here today / [[Cat giving a eulogy to the other three, all on their cell phones]]
/ Cat: To bury boredom
/ Boy: < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2865 |
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| Life on the Moon | [[A house on the moon]]
/ Girl: It's kind of far from stuff
/ Cat: But you get more space - / [[Cat and Girl inside the house, Cat opening a door, looking in.]]
/ Girl: And you have to fly everywhere.
/ Cat: Oh! And a washer and dryer. / Cat: We'd have a yard.
/ Girl: It's too hot half the day. / Girl: And too cold the other half.
/ Cat: We could Barbeque / Cat: What's keeping us on Earth?
/ Girl: Want-
/ Girl: Hope- / Girl: Gravity.
/ Cat: I can't live on Earth anymore
/ Cat: Terrible things happen there! / Girl: Our friends.
/ Cat: I can drink at home. / [[Cat and Girl are by a window]]
/ Girl: Is that a sentient being? / Girl: Is it breaking into our car? / {{silent panel, Cat alone, Girl has left}} / [[Cat still by window, panel now includes sales agent woman to his right]]
/ Cat: So how are the schools? http://catandgirl.com/?p=2875 |
| Fresh Start | Girl: Let's NOT keep in touch.
/ Cat: Don't call me. / Girl: Don't answer!
/ Cat: Don't text! / Cat: Don't read my website!
/ Girl: Don't COMMENT on my UPDATES! / Cat: Don't read my twitter
/ Girl: DON'T TWITTER / Girl: Erase my number -
/ Cat: Change your email address! / Cat: Move to El Paso!
/ Girl: Grow a moustache!
/ Cat: Die your hair! / Girl: Eat better - exercise -
/ Cat: Take classes at a local college. / Girl: Act like the person you WANT to be -
/ Cat: Start a NEW life / Girl: What's your number?
/ Cat: It's "CAT" - C - A - T - / [[Girl googles "Cat."]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=2877 |
| Creative Class | Girl: AUTHORIAL INTENT is BUNK! / Girl: I will ONLY read things written by people who don't know what they're doing - / Girl: Self-expression is a LIE society sells to outsiders to keep them COMPLACENT. / Girl: False meaning for those who reject mass sources of false meaning as BENEATH them
/ Cat: Religion
/ Girl: South Beach - Christmas - / Girl: An acceptable motivation for people who can't admit - they might LIKE poverty and failure.
/ Cat: You just smoosh stuff together! / Cat: Baroque art plus Facebook updates! 19th century handbills plus 80s hardcore bands! A plus B! / Cat: An ASCII animation of the Rodney King tape - Mr. T plus LOLcats.
/ Girl: That's not creative!
/ Cat: Because people like it? / Girl: It's cynical new detritus made by combining old detritus!
/ Cat: Oooooooh - versus the solitary creative GENIUS - shaping the world to their vision? / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2881 |
| Other Side | [[ In household rooms ]]
/ Grrrl: There's no MAGIC left in this world. / Cat: I can talk to anyone- Any time- Anywhere- / Grrrl: Thanks to the prosaic clarity of technology.
/ Cat: and all for the cost of a stamp! / Girl: Technology never changed ANYTHING. Except to make us more efficient at being who we were all along- / [[ Boy's newspaper: I'm Scared Daily ]]
/ Boy: {{ shaded }} CYBERBULLYING! SEXTING!
/ Girl: Those sound like OLD DUMB THINGS with NEW DUMB NAMES. / Grrrl: There's MAGIC in old ways of doing things.
/ Girl: Especially things you don't remember! / Grrrl: Why live in a world of VERIFIABLE FACTS when we can move to the uncertain land of myth?
/ Girl: If we could find it- / [[ Girl twirls in front of bathroom sink and mirror. Grrrl watches ]]
/ Girl: {{ shaded }} Bloody Mary Bloody Mary Bloody Mary / [[ Bloody Mary Girl appears in mirror. ]] / [[ Bloody Mary Girl holds camera to eye ]]
/ < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2883 |
| Black Candy | [[A hilly landscape in the background, with tombstones scattered on the hills]]
/ Cat: What's worse - / Cat: Belonging or not belonging.
/ Girl: Belonging / Cat: Creamy or chunky.
/ Girl: Chunky! / [[Cat and Girl are in front of a lake or river]]
/ Cat: Sickness or death
/ Girl: The corruption of our idea of self.
/ Girl: Or the elimination of it. / [[Girl is surrounded by a halo of emanata lines; Cat digs into his picnic basket]]
/ Girl: The bitter fruit of struggle
/ Girl: Or the black candy of defeat. / [[Cat now has jam stains all around his mouth]]
/ Girl: Your own self rebelling against the plans you've made for it-
/ Girl: Or death
/ Girl: The friend you've never met-
/ Girl: Who is always two steps behind you
/ Girl: Waiting to introduce himself / [[In the river or lake in the background, a boat passes by with skeleton passengers; one man dressed as a gondolier standing up and rowing, another man sitting down in a suit with his hand in the water, and a dog]]
/ Skeleton Gondolier: Hello
/ Skeleton Passenger: Hello
/ Skeleton Dog: Roff! / Girl: The chunky peanut butter of acceptance meets the jelly of inevitability.
/ Cat: It's great on two slices of it-could-be-worse! http://catandgirl.com/?p=2886 |
| Knick Knack | [[the flat surface of a body of water, with a fishing line]] / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2902 |
| Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive | [[Pitch black]] / [[Pair of eyes open]] Girl: I can't sleep. / [[Another pair of eyes open]] Cat: I haven't slept since Tuesday.
/ Girl: I'm worried-- / Cat: Or last Tuesday. It was a Tuesday in March.
/ Girl: Life is meaningless [[frowns]] / Cat: Now all the colors are brighter - and my ideas sound better
/ Girl: I used to be smart - now I'm clever / Cat: I pity the sleepers - and their sorry need
/ Girl: I used to listen - now I nod - I used to care / Cat: Free from sleep - we enter a higher state of being - our thoughts made manifest in the world--
/ Girl: In the darkness houses creak and train whistles blow / Girl: And our worries take on corporeal forms-
/ Cat: My hands are - mittens / Cat: < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2907 |
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