Monkey's Dad's definitions

gokd

OK, verging on good.

"How are you?" she asked.
"Ok" he replied.
"Good, or just ok?"
"Gokd".

by Monkey's Dad August 21, 2021

Blogjam

Intellectual immobilization from following too many influencers with too much to say.

He awoke to another early-morning blogjam, so much verbiage, so little time.

by Monkey's Dad November 25, 2019

Anxiety-Tornado

A sweeping, fast moving state of anxiety that arrives without warning and takes everything in its path with it.

He had made an offhand remark, a minor joke, but to her it incited an anxiety-tornado, swirling, uprooting, splintering and lifting her sense of security with it until she felt herself to be an emotionally wrecked trailer park. And like a tornado, it passed and calm was once again restored.

by Monkey's Dad August 15, 2021

Handwashing vs Brainwashing

Two modes of processing intelligence concerning COVID-19.

She was tuned to CNN, he to Fox News. She believed you could not be too careful. He believed it was a liberal hoax. Their tiny apartment had become a Handwashing vs Brainwashing battlefield.

by Monkey's Dad April 5, 2020

social uneasing

Distress created by the collective suicide of premature reopening.

Many experienced social uneasing at the increased death toll that would surely result, as restrictions were lifted and people packed the parks and beaches.

by Monkey's Dad May 5, 2020

analyze, assess, address

The necessary steps toward curing a condition accepted by the medical profession as irreversible.

Her doctors, associated practitioners, family and friends had so easily given up on her, accepting that she would have a lifetime of struggle and pain. He had other ideas, and began to analyze, assess, address the issues of her condition, constantly thinking, observing, trying. Day by day she improved, showing astonishing progress and they would take it all the way.

by Monkey's Dad June 23, 2023

Jiminy Crockett, Prince of the Wild Frontier

A secret project in development at the Walt Disney studio in the fall of 1956, following their massively successful Davy Crockett series. Drawn by animator Ward Kimball, sketches show Jiminy Cricket, featured in the 1940 film Pinocchio, in an oversized and skewed coonskin hat instead of his top hat, wearing a buckskin jacket and carrying a rifle in place of his umbrella.

Jiminy Crockett, Prince of the Wild Frontier, was a concept that refused to hop off the drawing board.

by Monkey's Dad September 29, 2023