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An Archaeologist for Archaeologists [[CAT and GIRL fly over the ruins of Machu Picchu in a spaceship with the number 3 painted on it]] / CAT: No one makes stuff like this any more / [[CAT snaps a photo]] / <> / GIRL: We're not builders. We're curators. / GIRL: All we can make is context / GIRL: All we have are pictures / [[CAT glares at GIRL]] / GIRL: I was going to link to yours!
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Crowdsourcing [[Cat is digging in a grave.]] / Cat: Nope / Cat: Just another box of person. / Girl: I'm not scared! / Cat: The author has to be in ONE of these. / <> / Cat: Look for a wordy tombstone. / Girl: g g g g g g / Zombies: M b b b b b b b b / Cat and Girl: THE AUTHOR! / Cat and Girl: AAAAAUGHH!
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High School All Over Again [[Night in a graveyard.]] / Cat: Am I in a capsule hotel? / [[Cat crawls out of a grave.]] / Cat: I've always wanted to visit Japan! / Girl: Well / Cat: Am I a werewolf? / Cat: Werewolves are cool / Girl: I'M dead. / Cat: Or vampires - we could be VAMPIRES / <> / Group of Vampires: HA HA HA HA / Cat: <> / [[The vampires leave.]] / Cat: There's nothing cool about zombies.
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Identity Politics Cat: Dead / Cat: dead dead dead. / Cat: Dead and PROUD. / Girl: Is that ALL you think about? / Cat: We're dead. / Girl: When we define ourselves by ONE THING - it warps our idea of the world - like a 3 dimensional image projected into 2 dimensional space / [[Cat checks his watch.]] / Cat: Still dead. / Girl: I am so SICK of ideology.
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Origin Story Girl: It was ten years ago on a night very much like this / Girl: when the romantic ideal of a young urban avant-garde finally collapsed. / Cat: GASP / Cat: Was it the INTERNET? / Girl: In the old world of top-down culture / Girl: They got their POWER from adapting the cultures of people without access direct to media representation. / Cat: I KNEW it! / Girl: And when that DIED they died TOO. Plus cities got more expensive, even Berlin / Cat: Phew! / Girl: But from their lifestyle accoutrements rose OTHERS--and at night they walk the Earth / Girl: STILL SEARCHING FOR THE LOST AVANT-GARDE WHOSE DESTRUCTION GAVE THEM LIFE / <> SNAP / / HAPPY TEN YEARS "HIPSTER" / Girl: You'd think the word would be meaningless now / Cat: Apparently it is still surprising + delightful! / Banner: From your friends at Cat + Girl
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In Memoriam [[Cat and Girl sit around a campfire.]] / Girl: It's time / [[Girl holds up a tee shirt]] / Girl: to retire the jersey / Girl: "hipster" / [[She drops the shirt into the fire]] / [[Smoke rises up]] / Cat: This is just like the funeral for "def" / Girl: Can we go TEN MINUTES without REFERENCING something?
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Dialogue of the Dead [[Dead Cat and Girl are in a crowd of zombies.]] / Zombies: Brains / Cat: Brains / Girl: Brains! / Girl: What have brains ever done for anyone? / Girl: Except make them think they deserve success. / Cat: Brains, brains. / Girl: Heart is what makes the difference. / Girl: There's no such thing as success any more. For most people. / Girl: But we can still struggle for meaning. / Cat: Brains / Zombies: Brains, brains, brains! / [[Cat turns to confront Girl]] / Cat: Do you want to argue or do you want to be a part of something?
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Andre the Giant Has a Few Things to Explain [[Grrrl wears a bandana over her face, and is holding a molotov cocktail.]] / [[She throws it.]] / Grrrl: ACTION destroys ENTROPY! / Girl: Action destroys compromise. / Grrrl: Compromise betrayed ideology! / Girl: Ideology betrayed compromise / Grrrl: ENTROPY creates COMFORT - and COMFORT is the enemy of IDEOLOGY! / [[She raises her fist.]] / Grrrl: Comfort is the enemy of any aesthetic value. / Grrrl: Aesthetics are the enemies of ideology. / Girl: Doesn't ANYBODY get along?
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I kindly stopped to wait for Death [[Cat and Girl wait at a bus stop.]] / Girl: Ch - Ch - Achoo! / Cat: You're sick? / Girl: EVERYONE'S sick. / Cat: I feel okay / Girl: We're ALL sick inside and eventually it KILLS us / Girl: unless we get hit by a bus first. / [[Cat checks his watch.]] / Cat: It's a half hour late. / Girl: You can't rely on anything. / [[The Nekobus prowls, grooms and stretches as it goes by.]]
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Girl and the Search for Authentic Cultural Experience [[Image of Girl in front of circle, presented as the adventure's hero, above title text art.]] / GIRL and the SEARCH for AUTHENTIC CULTURAL EXPERIENCE / [[Girl gazes out from the edge of the city to the wilderness.]] / [[Girl uses walking stick to hike over rolling hills.]] / [[Girl wades waist-deep through marsh with cat-tails growing along the edge.]] / [[Girl scrambles up the side of a sheer mountain side.]] / [[Girl hears music over the next mountain peak, as represented by a very large pair of eight notes.]] / [[Girl struggles to pull herself up onto a mountain ledge.]] / [[Girl bounces on her bottom down the mountain.]] / [[The moon shines down on a black panel, where Girl's illuminated face is surrounded by beady eyeballs.]] / [[With an irritated rather than pained look, Girl attempts to remove her leg from the mouth of a bear, who is flanked by two more.]] / [[A somewhat scruffy-looking Girl arrives next to Grrl, who is giggling with glee at the sight of a man with a rather long beard playing a guitar behind a bolder, which is sheltering the two girls from his sight.]] / <> / [[Girl's hands jump to her mouth and Grrl turns her head in surprise, as each realizes she's not the sole witness to this musical performance.]] / <> / [[Girl droops dejectedly as Grrl speaks out in anger, which calls them to the attention of the musician.]] / Grrl: You ruined it!
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The Greatest Generation [Girl and Grrl are outside of an Ikea-like building] / Grrrl: We've been betrayed by the elderly! / <> / [an explosion starts] / Girl: They lived in a time of constant progress / Grrl: They tore down real stuff to build shopping malls and highways! / [the explosion gets bigger] / Girl: They bought houses! They had jobs! / Grrl: They made meals of of Jell-O and Science -- / [the building becomes a black cloud] / Grrl: So we sew and saw and can -- / Girl: The horror of the atom bomb modified for use in their home / [Girl and Grrl retreat to a forest] / Grrl: -- An ideology halfway between Unabomber and Brawny paper towel man-- / Girl: They saw utopia in their future... / [In forest, Grrl puts on a balaclava] / Girl: We can because we can't / Grrl: If I'm going down with the standard of living I'm taking the good produce with me
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Especially Gift Cards [[Cat is carrying a sack over his shoulder]] / Cat: Everyone gets a burden. / Cat: So you might as well learn to enjoy it! / [[Cat starts handing out gifts]] / Cat: Friends. Family. / Cat: Memories - reputation - / Girl: I got faith. / Grrrl: I got lack of faith. Trade? / Cat: What you have. What you don't. / Boy: I didn't get anything. / Cat: Then you're FREE! Or dead. / [[Cat is leaving]] / Cat: Every gift is a slow poison! / Everyone: Thanks Santa!
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Factory for the Production of Nostalgia [[A snake eating its own tail revolves around a rotary telephone dial.]] / <> / <> / <> / [[It passes: a disco ball, a camera, a sign reading "Hard Hat Area," beer and ice cream, wind-up teeth on a trampoline, gears, arcade games, an old stove with a coffee pot on it, crates from the "Simple Tymes Beard Farm," "Redundant Hat Area" sign, a sink, a fire ax behind glass that reads "In case of emergency retreat into fantasy," a country cottage, and a Baba Yaga leg peaking out.]] / Girl: Sooner or later we're gonna run out of snake.
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Spacebook [[A rocket flies through the air.]] / {{Spacebook}} / Girl: I should check facebook / Girl: No I shouldn't / Girl: Friends are more than streams of information updated in real time / Girl: and I don't need to see how well everyone else is doing / Girl: Facebook is just another Judaism or being vegan or economics / Cat: People fear irrationality / Girl: A system of rules designed to impose rationality on an irrational world! / Cat: I think it's EXCITING / Girl: and we can spend our WHOLE LIVES in the protection of these artificial limitations / Cat: The MTV Sports of sittin' around thinkin' 'bout stuff / Girl: But when OUR bubble of rationalizations crashes into a DIFFERENT bubble - the cracks appear / Cat: and the whole giddy unimaginable world rushes in! / [[Their helmets hit each other, cracking.]] / [[Cat's helmet is broken.]] / [[Girl takes hers off.]] / <> / [[Girl falls over.]] / Cat: Well if THAT'S the way you want to play it!
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FIRST Cat: FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS! / Girl: Racism? / Girl: Poverty. / Girl: Selective law enforcement / Girl: Indefinite detention. / Girl: Unseemly rates of incarceration! / Girl: Irreversible environmental damage in the name of cheaper fuel sources / Girl: METH / Girl: Our lost manufacturing base / Girl: Income inequality! / Girl: Foreign wars. / Cat: Stuff white people like! / Girl: Health care. Jobs.
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