Monkey's Dad's definitions

Generation C

An age group encompassing those born to those reaching adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic. People born between 2000 and 2021.

Their worldview, their attitudes and their temperaments were shaped by the demands, constraints and pressures of the pandemic. Whether undergoing home-schooling from a masked parent or a teacher on Zoom, or facing severely diminished job prospects, they comprised Generation C.

by Monkey's Dad March 11, 2021

Silent Spring

The title of a non-fiction account, published in 1962, of the environmental damage caused by pesticides, written by Rachel Carson, with great foresight.

"Silent Spring" carried eerie echoes, he thought, seeing the trees outside his window beginning to flower, the earth returning to life in a largely silenced human world. Spring of 2020 would be a season of great and unsettling quietude.

by Monkey's Dad March 30, 2020

fie

"feeling it everywhere" - a gently intimate way of letting someone know they have gotten you aroused.

'missing your tongue, counting the minutes' she texted him.
He replied, 'fie', and he was.

by Monkey's Dad November 5, 2022

XYZnophobia

Fear of a broad array of foreigners.

Today he was blaming the Chinese for the 'foreign virus', yesterday, the Mexicans for allowing the Central Americans to get anywhere near our border, and whom he might fear tomorrow was anyone's guess. The president actually seemed proud of his XYZnophobia, blind to the leveling properties of the pandemic, and the lesson it offered, that we are all made of the same stuff.

by Monkey's Dad March 22, 2020

Newsmocks

A nickname for Newsmax, spoken quietly by some of the network's performers, paid to broadcast the far-right party line, whether they believe it or not.

"Next up on Newsmocks", intoned the host in his dressing room, "security camera proof of Fauci in the Wuhan lab. Don't go away."

by Monkey's Dad August 3, 2021

dog dreaming

A sleep state, moving your arms and legs and making sounds, a manifestation of your dreams.

He could see that she was dreaming about running, her legs were going, and she was making little shouting sounds, dog dreaming, the way their poodle visibly dreamed of chasing deer.

by Monkey's Dad April 23, 2020

Breathing While Black

In too many instances in America, a crime punishable by death.

In the eyes of Derek Chauvin, George Floyd's crime was Breathing While Black. As Chauvin suffocated Floyd for more than nine minutes, ending his life, Floyd's last words were "I can't breathe", a phrase which became a rallying cry for justice.

by Monkey's Dad April 21, 2021