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| 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 |
| Gravedigger Blues | [[A clod of dirt flies out of a grave.]] / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2909 |
| Cast a Shadow | [[Cat and Girl strolling outside, Cat holding phone ]]
/ Girl: What if we ARE in a cave-
/ Girl: And everything we see and experience / Girl: Is just SHADOWS of the REAL THING
/ Cat: We need a vacation
/ Girl: {{ shaded }} or / Girl: {{ heavy shading }} GASP / Girl: What if WE'RE the real thing
/ Girl: And there are people stuck in that cave!
/ Cat: Somewhere scenic / Girl: WE HAVE TO SAVE THEM!
/ Cat: The bathroom mirror! / Girl: -Is scenic?
/ Cat: People are always taking their pictures in it! http://catandgirl.com/?p=2913 |
| Bonfire | < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2915 |
| T.V. Girl | [[Cat and Girl watch television.]]
/ Girl: We've learned to be watched / Girl: We exists not to do but to be observed doing / Girl: When everything's recorded we act for the recording / Girl: When every thought has an audience you think for the audience! / [[Girls' voice is obscured by static]] / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2917 |
| Playhouse | [[Cat and Girl are hiding behind some bushes.]]
/ Girl: Does the world exist only in our observation of it - or do we exist only as observed by the world? / Cat: So should we WATCH TV - or BE on TV?
/ Girl: Are we the photographer or the photographed? / Cat: To ACT is to LIVE
/ Girl: To observe is to understand. / Cat: Understanding is overrated
/ Girl: Every life is a collaboration
/ Cat: There's a reason Mass was in Latin
/ Girl: Between how-it-is-lived and how-it-is-seen
/ Cat: And don't THINK there's not a book about you! / [[Exhaustion.]] / Girl: I hope someone can see this.
/ Cat: I can't see anyone. http://catandgirl.com/?p=2919 |
| Cat and Girl ? Archive ? Ponytail | Girl: What's up? http://catandgirl.com/?p=2921 |
| Apologies | [[Girl is angry.]] / Cat: I got you a CARD / [[Girl holds the card.]] / Girl: "People do terrible things to one another." / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2923 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://catandgirl.com/?p=2925">http://catandgirl.com/?p=2925 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Peak Nostalgia Production | Girl: Everything old is new again -
/ Cat: Anything new can look old! / Girl: Polaroid apps
/ Cat: Civil War reenactments
/ Girl: Retro Soul / Cat: Soul music is back!
/ Girl: Retro swing is back - same suits - new referents / Cat: Using our NEW technologies to perfectly recreate the past
/ Girl: There's no such THING as a perfect recreation! / Girl: And the flaws that appear in our recreation of the past will in retrospect come to DEFINE our PRESENT / Cat: What if we run out of past to appropriate / Girl: Objectifying foreign cultures - or different socioeconomic groups
/ Cat: You can't spell appropriate without appropriate. / Girl: But we're ALWAYS making more past / Girl: We'll run out of future first. http://catandgirl.com/?p=2929 |
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| a class="searchlink" href="http://catandgirl.com/?p=2934">http://catandgirl.com/?p=2934 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Apostles | Girl: I can't believe that there's anything out there / Cat: Then the WORLD is what's important. / Girl: I don't believe in the world.
/ Cat: You BELIEVE in your COUNTRY.
/ [[Cat waves a flag.]] / Girl: I don't believe in my country!
/ Cat: So your subculture gives meaning - / Girl: I don't believe in ANY subculture.
/ Cat: You believe in your FRIENDS. / Girl: I do NOT!
/ Cat: So the SELF is what's important? / Girl: I don't believe in the importance of the self!
/ Cat: All we have are moments. / Girl: Moments are meaningless / Cat: Just protons and electrons spinning in space.
/ Girl: Electrons are moralistic claptrap. http://catandgirl.com/?p=2938 |
| Cat and Girl ? Archive ? March to the See | [[bright...]]
/ Girl: There's no point in being smart. / [[...with clouds gathering...]]
/ Girl: There's no point in being clever.
/ Grrrl: Good! / Girl: There's no point in being right.
/ Grrrl: Nothing obscures the truth like fact. / Girl: Like a bon mot to a flame.
/ Grrl: There's no point in being clever! / Girl: There's no point in creativity
/ Grrrl: 1 percent inspiration
/ Girl: 99% self-preservation / [[... to darkness]]
/ Girl: And we're supposed to find Happiness on this march to nowhere?
/ Grrrl: There's no Exuberance in my Irrationality / Girl: If it's pointless to be right
/ Girl: to do right
/ Girl: to mean well
/ Girl: to Care
/ Grrrl: We make up our own point
/ Grrrl: pretend it's important
/ Grrrl: and march on! / [[with banner]]
/ Grrrl: God
/ Grrrl: Money
/ Grrrl: Ego
/ Grrrl: Food / [[out panel]]
/ Girl: the welfare of others
/ Grrrl: be realistic http://catandgirl.com/?p=2940 |
| Conservation of Matter | Girl: I don't want an NPR tote bag. / Girl: I don't want my photograph taken on a roller coaster / Girl: and I don't want the typed instructions of a conceptual art piece calling itself the work!
/ Cat: Birthdays will be tough this year. / Girl: Why does every value and experience have to be interpreted through objects? You can like something without buying the tee shirt!
/ Cat: To hold it - / Girl: Consumer culture is built on objects that stand in for the things we hold important - for the values we WANT to hold - / Girl: The commemorative mug, the childhood toy, the pernicious object-hood of value
/ Cat: Christmas will be a challenge - again / Girl: and when value leaves the object
/ Cat: Estate sale!
/ Girl: the saddest words in American English. / Girl: But if we destroy the object and release its values
/ Cat: I Dream of Jeannie ended that way - or was it Bikini atoll - http://catandgirl.com/?p=2942 |
| Conversation of Matter | [[Conservation of Matter drawing, ripped to pieces]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=2944 |
| Main Street | Girl: TV - or movies?
/ Cat: Is that a riddle? / Girl: movies end
/ Cat: Can I win a magic apple? / Girl: but television - RETURNS.
/ Cat: I'll share it with my magic horse? / Girl: It's a reason to keep going - an appointment - a RELATIONSHIP / Girl: A CHOICE - of one way communication
/ Cat: I'm sorry Pokey / Girl: of watching fictional strangers instead of real life interactions
/ Cat: You can only disappoint a magic horse so many times / Girl: With our NEIGHBORS and COMMUNITY
/ Cat: Et tu modern world / [[They worry]] / Cat: Don't we hate those people? http://catandgirl.com/?p=2946 |
| Destiny's Child | Girl: Bills, bills, bills. / Girl: Everyone wants to be real.
/ Cat: Gates, Clinton, Cosby. / Cat: Hickok, Buffalo.
/ Girl: I want to be fake. / Cat: - Bo Baggins, - The Cat.
/ Girl: We shouldn't have to match our ideals to our biography. / Girl: Or disappear into the minutiae of everyday life.
/ Cat: Electric, phone, gas. / Girl: When there's even the smallest chance of possibility.
/ Cat: Barty! http://catandgirl.com/?p=2948 |
| Begins with a Single Misstep | [[Girl and Cat stand behind a suitcase and a duffel bag.]]
/ Girl: Everything we love goes away - / Girl: so I packed your bags / Girl: and made you some sandwiches.
/ [[Girl hands Cat a small paper bag.]] / Cat: What if you're the one who goes away? / [[Both Cat and Girl look at the luggage.]] / Girl: I guess I'll be wearing your clothes.
/ [[Cat is eating one of the sandwiches from the paper bag.]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=2953 |
| The View From Here | [[Cat and Girl are in a boat. Girl bails water.]]
/ < http://catandgirl.com/?p=2955 |
| Bottle Episode | [[Beatnik Vampire is increasingly surrounded by beer cans.]] / [[Grrrl is increasingly surrounded by records.]] / Girl: We're ALL in bottles / Girl: bottles we made ourselves / Girl: to insulate us from the world / Girl: and from each other. / [[Cat is inside a giant bottle.]] / Cat: Have you seen my ship? http://catandgirl.com/?p=2959 |
| Google Translate | Girl: People say "borrow" when they mean have. / Girl: When they mean "borrow" they say "see" / Girl: Words can be so ambiguous. / Girl: So I'm being buried with all of my stuff. / [[Girl leaves.]] / Cat: We should finish watching "The Wire" first! http://catandgirl.com/?p=2962 |
| In Lieu of Donations Send Flowers | Girl: Privacy is DEAD.
/ Cat: How did it die? / Girl: That's all ANYBODY asks! / Girl: We spend years living - and just minutes dying - / Girl: and all anybody wants to know is - how did they die - how did they die / Girl: Hoping for an answer we can misinterpret as THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO ME. / Cat: So how did it die?
/ Girl: No one will tell me! http://catandgirl.com/?p=2968 |
| A Night at the Opera | [[Cat sits in front of the TV, watch out, anticipating]] Cat: Ready...ready...
/ Cat: Hooray! / [[Cat and Girl sit on the couch in front of the TV]] Cat: TV is classy now!
/ Girl: Already? / Cat: So I guess I'm classy now
/ Girl: I guess anything gets classy if you wait long enough- / Cat: All my life I've wanted to be classy!
/ Girl: Opera, burlesque, wine... / Girl: Made for the masses and taken up by the elite once the masses lose interest. / Girl: Shakespeare novels, black and white movies,
/ Cat: Sssh... / Girl: Nothing legitimizes like distance.
/ Cat: My soap is on! http://catandgirl.com/?p=2975 |
| Contentment Provider | [[Bad Decision Dinosaur sees a sign...]]
/ {{FREE LUNCH}} / [[He stuffs hot dogs in his mouth.]] / [[He gorges on the muck from buckets labeled "More."]] / [[Mayonnaise runs down his face.]] / Bad Decision Dinosaur: OOOOOOOOOOO / Offscreen Voice: FREE DINNER
/ Bad Decision Dinosaur: YESSSS http://catandgirl.com/?p=2980 |
| I want to be forgotten but not too soon | Cat: I want to be FAMOUS / Girl: I want to be important / Girl: Famous is like important but for stupid things
/ Cat: Important is like famous but nobody cares! / Cat: Now you can pretend that people care what you think!
/ Girl: Now you can pretend that people care who you are! / Cat and Girl: Now you can think you're better than me! / [[They turn away from each other.]] / Cat and Girl: I thought I - / [[They get further away.]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=2983 |
| Soft Shelled Crabs | Girl: Any pose held too long calcifies. / Cat: Garbage kept too long becomes history. / Girl: A belief believed too long becomes dogma.
/ Cat: An opinion said too much becomes fact. / Girl: Any expression held too long will harden into a mask.
/ Cat: Apple juice left too long becomes vinegar.
/ [[Cat pours gasoline on to the ground.]] / Girl: And who is the REAL us
/ Cat: Memories kept too long become vendettas. / Girl: That hard exterior or the soft uncertain self we keep beneath it?
/ [[Cat lights a match]]
/ Cat: Goodbye storage unit! http://catandgirl.com/?p=2988 |
| Everybody Else | [[In the background is a supermarket shelf stocked with coffee.]]
/ Girl: What did people do before stores played music?
/ Cat: They didn't dance in stores? / [[Hot dogs.]]
/ Girl: Before stores had cameras everywhere.
/ Cat: They weren't recorded dancing! / [[Peppers.]]
/ Cat and Girl: It's a two way street! / [[Floor.]]
/ Girl: You're either being oppressed by the audio and video spectacle of constant information
/ Cat: I don't know WHO songs this song / [[Movie poster.]]
/ Girl: or made a PARTICIPANT in it
/ Cat: or who is in that movie / [[Ads.]]
/ Cat: but I know my I am - so in MY book - I'm FAMOUS. / [[Building exterior.]] / [[Tree.]]
/ Girl: EVERYBODY has a book. http://catandgirl.com/?p=2992 |
| New is the New Old | Cat: BOOOOO / Cat: Authority - Boo
/ Girl: Disorganized self-interest is the new authority / Cat: What was the old authority?
/ Girl: Moral certitude / Girl: And disorganized self-interest. / Girl: And television.
/ Cat: Television is the new morality play? / Cat: Computers are the new televisions.
/ Girl: Old televisions are the new used mattresses? / Girl: Hating people who say they don't have a television is the new saying you don't have a television! / Cat: An exasperating refusal to make value judgements is the new exasperating snobbery.
/ Girl: Hm! http://catandgirl.com/?p=2998 |
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