Monkey's Dad's definitions
He felt certain that, after the multiple convictions which were looming, the 'leading candidate' would be snake lunch.
by Monkey's Dad November 23, 2023
Get the Snake Lunchmug. An abstract construct. How the once-real world feels to many, after weeks of social distancing and lockdown.
She knew they were real people on her screen, during the zoom meeting, sorta. The truth was, she saw it as an abstruct, which she hoped no one could tell.
by Monkey's Dad May 24, 2020
Get the abstructmug. It had seemed a coincidence to board the plane and to find, through conversation, that he was seated beside the brother of the musician he was traveling to L.A. to record with. Years later, as the three of them finished their run at the Beacon, they laughed, agreeing that the concerts, the flight, the albums and everything in between were one, an omniincidence, events without sequence.
by Monkey's Dad November 23, 2021
Get the omniincidencemug. A prefix which should, but does not, negate the word to which it is attached. While 'mobility' and 'immobility' are opposites, as are 'effective' and 'ineffective', the words 'passivity' and 'impassivity' mean the same thing, as do the words 'flammable' and 'inflammable'.
Tired of being described as passive, he decided to be more impassive. He'd be a man of action, or maybe even inaction. What difference could a negated negation make?
by Monkey's Dad July 25, 2023
Get the negated negationmug. Multi-pronged offensive weapons projecting from the cranium of a male who has something to say, and say again, and then expound upon, at length and in detail, with increasing volume, until his adversaries, and even those who might under gentler circumstances have agreed with him, are driven toward quieter pastures.
He came out of the theater sharpening his rantlers, so aggrieved by the multitude of sins - factual, artistic, moral, narrative, historic, cultural, - committed by the new Tarantino film - the sheer misdirection, when there had been so much to be made from the basic elements of the story, the irredeemable irrelevance of every central character and most of the secondary characters, wasted plots twists galore, to no advantage, gratuitously altered realities, that interminable shot in the second act which had no place in the mise-en-scene...
by Monkey's Dad September 8, 2019
Get the rantlersmug. A person able to move their limbs freely, to walk about their beloved cities, towns, beaches and parks. A person looking forward to same, if and when the coronavirus pandemic ends.
After days of forced isolation in his minuscule New York apartment, able to touch all four walls at once, he yearned to open the door, to hit the street, to walk, to run, to be a free range human.
by Monkey's Dad March 20, 2020
Get the Free Range Humanmug. The murmured protestation of a woman being served an artfully prepared late-morning breakfast, in bed, with a monogrammed sterling spoon, under a velvet blanket, by a man whose one goal in life is her pleasure and comfort, meant to convey the disclaimer: "I am not a Jap".
Ianaj - obviously you have never known a real one - please bring me my glasses... turn the fan slightly toward the window... my phone... and what time is it?
by Monkey's Dad September 3, 2019
Get the Ianajmug.