Monkey's Dad's definitions
The special day in mid-March when people do NOT gather in tightly-packed spaces to get drunk, yell, sing and generally breathe in each others' faces, because there is still a global pandemic.
With his six-pack of Guinness, he sat on his sofa to celebrate Sane Patrick's Day, and set his sights on next year.
by Monkey's Dad March 17, 2021
Get the Sane Patrick's Daymug. The non-existent work a suddenly-unemployed waiter or waitress looks for, to make ends meet in the coronavirus economy.
An actress by training, a waitress by profession, she quickly needed to find a 2020 dayjob, with the whole world staying home. It wasn't going to be easy.
by Monkey's Dad March 14, 2020
Get the 2020 dayjobmug. Falling through the cracks, many Americans took to the streets in massive protest of racial injustice and police brutality. Peeking through the cracks, many Americans watched in fear as the streets were filled with anger and pain they could hardly comprehend.
by Monkey's Dad June 3, 2020
Get the through the cracksmug. Reeling from the unprecedented roc. And you?
by Monkey's Dad March 19, 2020
Get the rocmug. You've seen him; the guy who unknowingly manifests the style and philosophy of The Dude, played by Jeff Bridges in the Coen brothers' 1998 film, "The Big Lebowski".
"Check out the Lebowsker."
"Wayfarers, bowling shirt, several years late for work?"
"Certain things have come to light, man."
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"Wayfarers, bowling shirt, several years late for work?"
"Certain things have come to light, man."
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by Monkey's Dad July 29, 2023
Get the Lebowskermug. Something which is in front of us, yet cannot or will not be seen.
The visual equivalent of 'falling on deaf ears'.
The visual equivalent of 'falling on deaf ears'.
Inside the White House, the numbers kept falling on blind eyes, unable to see that infection rates were exploding, that their candidate was massively behind in the polls, that across the country, people were on the march and would not back down.
by Monkey's Dad June 24, 2020
Get the falling on blind eyesmug. The 22-year-old poet who spoke with poise and eloquence at the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, reading her poem "The Hill We Climb". Ms. Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in United States history, earned wide praise and admiration for her contribution to an event regarded, by several measures, as historically significant.
Amanda Gorman joins a small group of poets who have graced a presidential inauguration with their words, among them Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco.
From "The Hill We Climb", she read:
"And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished."
From "The Hill We Climb", she read:
"And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished."
by Monkey's Dad January 24, 2021
Get the Amanda Gormanmug.