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| Set and Table Setting | Girl: We are INEVITABLY punished for doing the right thing - / Girl: We live in a society HOSTILE to morality. / Cat: It seems to like religion OK.
/ Girl: Top-down morality's just authority in a robe with some tablets. / Cat: Maybe it's hostile because everyone's morality is different - and most people are CRAZY - / [[They enter a restaurant]]
/ Girl: Obscuring the differences in our individual beliefs with RULES and etiquette - THAT'S what society is FOR -
/ Cat: More lives have been saved by traffic laws than by any moral code. / Girl: and we subsume our own vendettas in the immorality of society as a whole -
/ Cat: Revenge - is a dish best served cold - after the entree - and before the salad course. / [[Cat stares down at his plate.]] / Cat: Which one is the stabbing fork?
/ Girl: ALL of them! http://catandgirl.com/?p=3132 |
| Baby Steps | [[Beatnik Vampire and the Alone Ranger sit at a bar.]]
/ Vampire: I hate kids.
/ Ranger: Kids are great! / Vampire: Sticky little engines of destruction -
/ Ranger: of enthusiasm! / Vampire: and excuses to sanitize the world.
/ Ranger: of POTENTIAL / Ranger: They could be ANYTHING / Ranger: and they GROW UP / Ranger: and become us. / [[He puts his head in his hands.]] / Ranger: I hate kids.
/ < http://catandgirl.com/?p=3135 |
| Bat and Girl | [[Girl is reading a book]]
/ Girl: "CITIZEN KANE" WAS THE FIRST MOVIE TO SHOW CEILINGS- / [[Cat is standing upside down]]
/ Girl: PEOPLE HAD NEVER SEEN A CEILING IN A MOVIE BEFORE- IT WAS VERY EXCITING FOR THEM. / Girl: "THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE CEILING WE HAVE AT HOME", THEY SAID. / Girl: "FINALLY A MOVIE I CAN UNDERSTAND"
/ Cat: A CEILING'S JUST A FLOOR THAT GOT LOST- / Girl: ARE OUR IMAGINATIONS SO LIMITED AS TO DEMAND REALISM?
/ Cat: OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND- / Girl: LIKE WE HAVEN'T SEEN OUR UPPER LIMITS ALL ALONG.
/ Cat: I GET LOST TOO. / [[Girl looks at book]] / [[Girl holds book up in one hand]] / [[Girl lets go of the book, which falls upward]] / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=3141 |
| Always On | Grrrl: Call me! / Grrrl: Or text - I never check my messages.
/ Girl: I don't have a text plan. / Girl: I can stop by
/ Grrrl: My buzzer doesn't work - you'll have to call.
/ Girl: What's your number? I lost my old phone - / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=3143 |
| Trivial Pursuit | [[Desert, the sun beats down, three pyramids, one of which is unfinished. Cat and girl are roped to a stone block, pulling it halfway up the unfinished pyramid. Cat sweats.]]
/ [[Close-up on Cat and Girl]]
/ Cat: If it was fun, it wouldn't be called work / Girl: I don't mind the work
/ Cat: A job is a job / Girl: But it's hard to find meaning in assembling someone else's vision
/ Cat: Find meaning on your own time! / Girl: Creativity makes possibility. Repetition just fulfills it.
/ Cat: Repetition gets things done! / Girl: Or creativity is imperfect repetition
/ Cat: Get in. Get paid. Get out. / Girl: A game of telephone played over the centuries masquerading as progress.
/ Offscreen: Payday! / [[Desert scene. The Eye of Providence has appeared over the pyramid, radiating light (an eye enclosed by a triangle, as seen on a US $1 bill).]] / Girl: Leave posterity to the Pharaohs.
/ Cat: Let's buy hamburgers! http://catandgirl.com/?p=3145 |
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| The World a Stage | [[Crowd scene, inclyding Cat and Girl, Death walking a barking dog, a cowboy, Grrl, Zombie Joseph Beuys, Vampire, Boy, two bunnies and Mister Chen, among others]]
/ Girl: When we're in public we're acting. / [[Close-up of Cat and Girl, the edges of the crowd visible.]]
/ Cat: When we talk to strangers we play a role. / [[Close-up of Cat and Girl, the endges of the crowd fade to black shadows.]]
/ Cat: With our friends we pretend to be who we think they think we are. / [[Close-up of Cat and Girl, fewer black shadows visible.]]
/ Girl: Even with family we aren't our true selves. / [[Cat and Girl alone. Girl looks sad. Cat looks anxiously at her.]] / [[Cat has disappeared. Girl looks angrily down at the floor.]] / [[Girl looks up and realises she is alone.]] / [[Girl brings her hands anxiously to her mouth.]]
/ Girl: Uh-oh. http://catandgirl.com/?p=3179 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://catandgirl.com/?p=3185">http://catandgirl.com/?p=3185 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Dark and Stormy | [[black panel]] / [[black panel]]
/ Cat: Let's watch a movie. / [[black panel]]
/ Girl: The power's out.
/ Cat: Let's watch TV! / [[black panel]]
/ Girl: We need power for TV
/ Cat: NETFLIX / [[black panel]]
/ Girl: No
/ Cat: DVDs
/ Girl: No
/ Cat: Two DVDs
/ Girl: NO
/ Cat: Can we download something? / [[A flash of lightning illuminates the scene, revealing a shaken Cat and Girl sitting inside, curtains blowing, and large waves of water outside]] / [[black panel]] / [[black panel]]
/ Cat: What are we going to watch? http://catandgirl.com/?p=3187 |
| Dark and Stormy | [[A storm!]] / [[The sky begins to clear.]] / [[The waves subside.]] / Beatnik Vampire: That's disappointing. / Grrrl: Is this not ENOUGH destruction for you? / Grrrl: How much TRAGEDY do you NEED to feel compensated for going to three different stores trying to find bottled water - how many people have to die - / Grrrl: What BOTHERS you - the lack of CHAOS - the lack of SPECTACLE - / Beatnik Vampire: The lack of biblical judgement. / [[They look out the window.]] / Beatnik Vampire: I guess it's back to the usual. http://catandgirl.com/?p=3191 |
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| Ghosts | Girl: When I was smaller things that happened yesterday seemed to belong to a different life / Girl: Now I think about something that happened ten years ago - / Girl: and it feels like I could still reach out and touch it - / [[Cat and Girl look aghast]] / Girl: but nothing's there. / Girl: Time is distance.
/ Cat: Time is lots of distances. http://catandgirl.com/?p=3201 |
| The Not So Special Olympics | Girl: I feel bad. / Cat: I feel worse.
/ Girl: I was close! / Cat: I was CLOSER.
/ Girl: I was AFFECTED / Cat: I was affected HARDER
/ Girl: So HOW bad am I ALLOWED to feel? / [[Cat reaches into a bag.]]
/ < http://catandgirl.com/?p=3203 |
| Just be happy you have a purpose | [[Cat walks down the street.]]
/ Cat: JUST BE HAPPY YOU HAVE A JOB! / [[He stops by an ice cream truck.]]
/ Cat: JUST BE HAPPY YOU HAVE A JOB! / [[He talks to a dog.]]
/ Cat: JUST BE HAPPY YOU HAVE A JOB! / [[A bird sings in a tree.]]
/ Cat: JUST BE HAPPY YOU HAVE A JOB!
/ Bird: < http://catandgirl.com/?p=3210 |
| Border Town | [[Cat draws a line down the center of the panel]] / Cat: This is my side and that's yours / [[Girl draws her own line.]]
/ Girl: This is the physical - and this is the spiritual / Cat: This is my table and this is your table
/ Girl: Not much happens up there. / [[Cat eats his half of a sandwich.]]
/ Cat: That half is yours.
/ Girl: It has sharpie on it! / < http://catandgirl.com/?p=3211 |
| The future is where anything could happen, but nothing does. | Grrrl: To the future! / [[Girl looks askance at her]] / Girl: The future's a delusion. I'd rather look to the past. / Grrrl: That's just NOSTALGIA
/ Girl: We can LEARN from history. / Grrrl: If history taught us ANYTHING then how did we end up HERE? / [[x]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=3237 |
| Blank Canvas | [[Blank page on the ground]] / [[Blank page being held on the ground]] / [[Blank page being held]] / [[Blank page being held above railroad tracks]] / [[Blank page held in front of flowers]] / [[Blank page held in car]] / [[Blank page held outside]] / [[Blank page held in front of painting]] / [[Blank page outside]] / [[Blank page folds]] / [[Blank page being blown away]] / [[The sea]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=3241 |
| ROBOT ARTIST in "Artist's Statement"? | Robot Artist: I exist - / Robot Artist: not fully human / Robot Artist: Yet not - fully - machine. / Robot Artist: My work explores the intersections between these two worlds. http://catandgirl.com/?p=3243 |
| ROBOT ARTIST in "It's Tough being Robot Artist"? | [[Robot Artist sits at a table in a bar.]] / [[His bearded friend drinks.]] / [[Robot Artist grimaces.]] / Robot Artist: Toasters have it easy. http://catandgirl.com/?p=3245 |
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| Road to Nowhere | [[Cat and Girl run across the surface of a cardboard box.]] / [[They run over to the right - ]] / [[ - jump down - ]] / [[ - and up in the air - ]] / [[[ - on to a pile of postcards that sit on a table.]]
/ {{postcards: "We're Moving"}}
/ Cat and Girl: AAAAAAAAAA http://catandgirl.com/?p=3278 |
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| Metastatic | [[Girl, drawn on an arm.]]
/ Girl: Of course cells multiply - what else do they have to do? / [[Girl, drawn on a hand.]]
/ Girl: Any community is half disease / [[Books on a shelf are holding signs.]]
/ {{Bookshelves for Books}}
/ {{Knick-Knacks Go Home}} / [[A toy dinosaur approaches them.]] / Book: Tony
/ Dinosaur: Maria / [[They embrace]] http://catandgirl.com/?p=3282 |
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