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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!
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. / <>
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]] / <>
 
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 - / <> / Girl: My battery died - AGAIN - I'll email you. / Grrrl: I don't check email. Who sends EMAIL? / Grrrl: I have a tumblr but I only check twitter. / Girl: I have a twitter but I only check facebook. / Grrrl: I have a facebook but I only check Google + / Girl: I have Google + I'm not sure why. / Grrrl: Maybe we should make plans now. / Girl: What if something better comes up?
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!
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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.
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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?
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.
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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.
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.]] / <> / [[He holds up a "Home Pity Test."]] / [[Cat and Girl hold sticks in their mouths.]] / [[They check their sticks.]] / Girl: I found something I'm good at! / <> / [[Cat snaps his stick.]]
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: <> / Cat: Bird? / Bird: <> <> / [[Cat eats his popsicle.]] / Cat: BUM
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! / <> / [[Cat draws his line down Girl's arm]] / [[Girl is flustered]] / Cat: Can I borrow a knife? / Cat: I'll wait.
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]]
 
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]]
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.
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.
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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
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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]]
 

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