dark cloud from hell

That special waitress who approaches your table - clearly wishing you would die during her shift - and asks "How is everything?"

Here comes the dark cloud from hell. Grab your dinner before she confiscates it.

by Monkey's Dad February 28, 2023

new social norm

Once, the collective representation of acceptable group conduct, now the nullification of group conduct.

In spring of 2020, people the world over were forbidden to gather, instructed to stay away from each other at specified minimum distances. The new social norm during the age of coronavirus was that there was no social norm.

by Monkey's Dad April 10, 2020

Birkenstockbroker

Any former hippie who left Woodstock and headed for Wall Street.

Now retired to Napa, surveying his private-label vineyard from the pool-deck of his 20,000 square-foot 'villa', he strums his Martin - yes, it's the one on the cover of 'unplugged' - purchased for six figures from the Christies Clapton auction, a true Birkenstockbroker, a 60s radical who simply took a brief detour.

by Monkey's Dad October 14, 2023

WWSAB?

Were We Separated At Birth? Asked of another person with whom one feels exceptional alignment.

I understand what you are feeling, and could not agree more. WWSAB?

by Monkey's Dad November 26, 2019

spreading like wildflower

An unintentional distortion of the phrase "spreading like wildfire", which, oddly, is both poetically evocative and accurate in its imagery.

Anne would often say, of a rumor, a fashion or a craze, "it's spreading like wildflower", and he was too impressed by its inner truth and charm to ever correct her.

by Monkey's Dad June 12, 2021

gregarious loner

Someone who so loves other people that she strictly avoids them, to protect everyone.

Looking down from her solitary balcony at the empty street, she thought warmly of her many friends, and those she hoped someday to meet, glad that they were nowhere near her, happy for the moment to be the gregarious loner.

by Monkey's Dad April 10, 2020

hindred spirits

Two people, each feeling the other as a soulmate, neither able to see how they hold each other back.

Tom had stopped playing the guitar, Susie had dropped out of school, so happy to have found each other that they wanted nothing more than to be together, and all their friends could see they were hindred spirits.

by Monkey's Dad March 03, 2020