Proven by the endurance of Coke, Levi's, Converse, the Stratocaster, 1964 Mustang, Eames chair, Barbie doll and the Louisville Slugger, all of which have been imitated but never equaled.
After trying on a dozen recently-designed high-tech sneakers, she decided on a pair of classic Converse High Tops - in continuous production since 1917 - suggesting once again that the original is still the greatest and that her level of taste was in a class of its own.
by Monkey's Dad April 30, 2023
Posting photos of every meal and every snack, sharing recipes, looking forward to eating because what else was there to do, she had become a Walking Food Festival.
by Monkey's Dad March 02, 2021
Customers refused to wear masks, citing their 'freedom', unconcerned with the lives of the innocential workers who had no choice but to serve them.
by Monkey's Dad May 13, 2020
The space, literal and emotional, between yourself and another person, hoping for their safety and well-being, wishing you could be together when you are inescapably separated during the pandemic.
Unable to help in any way, hoping each day that she would remain well, wishing he could simply be where she was, the longing distance was at times unbearable.
by Monkey's Dad April 04, 2020
Describing her wrydyllic Hollywood upbringing, with her famously absent, movie-star father, her alcoholic mother's three-day orgies that allowed her no place to hide, her joyous hitch-hiking escape up the coast to Haight-Ashbury at 14, she kept a straight face and slight smile, the better to confound her interviewer.
by Monkey's Dad March 06, 2020
"Man, I've been working like a dog", he muttered into the phone, his feet up, eyes on the game, the bag of Doritos on his chest almost empty. There must have been a time, long ago, he imagined, when dogs spent their lives herding cattle from sunrise to sunset, but any actual 21st century dog he knew was lazier than The Dude.
by Monkey's Dad March 01, 2020
A currently-living, proudly primitive person. A surprisingly vivid embodiment of attitudes and aptitudes thought to be long-extinct.
by Monkey's Dad September 18, 2019