vacuutemporal

An experience of life without time. The absence of a temporal dimension. An intensification of simultemporal experience, in which past, present and future are equidistant and simultaneous.

Having grown accustomed to simultemporal experience - living time all at once, rather than sequentially - he was increasingly forced to acknowledge states which were vacuutemporal, wherein the sense of time in any form dissolved.

by Monkey's Dad August 08, 2021

#MeToobin

The firing of Jeffrey Toobin, who committed an indiscretion, not an assault, from his position as staff writer at The New Yorker, after 27 years.

The legitimacy of the #MeToo movement gave rise to possible excesses of caution and political correctness, culminating in #MeToobin. At a critical moment, when his talents and insights were needed, it was hard to say who was served by his dismissal.

by Monkey's Dad November 12, 2020

boredumb

An unjustifiable excuse to take risks with your own life and the lives of others, during stay-at-home orders, in the coronaviral pandemic.

Her family begged her to stay home, but she finally flipped and went to the grocery store out of sheer boredumb, figuring what the hell.

by Monkey's Dad April 11, 2020

less-lethal weapons

Rubber bullets, beanbag rounds, stun grenades and other projectiles fired by police at unarmed and non-violent American citizens. Such weapons can produce serious injury, permanent disability and death.

An 18-year-old man, struck in the head by one of the less-lethal weapons, suffered massive injuries. 'You could look down into the wound and see fractured skull fragments', said the EMT. Rubber bullets, fired by police from military grenade launchers, can cause internal bleeding, nerve damage and permanent injury to vital organs.

by Monkey's Dad June 13, 2020

Hey Nineteen

Foretelling COVID-19 and its social distancing, forty years early. Precognitive lyrics from Steely Dan's 1980 hit.

Hey Nineteen
No, we can't dance together
No, we can't talk at all

by Monkey's Dad April 25, 2020

Wankee Doodle Dandy

Boris Johnson, born in the United States, now, somehow, Prime Minister of Britain.

The ghost of Churchill returned to 10 Downing Street just long enough to be stunned that his once-dignified office was being sullied by this Wankee Doodle Dandy.

by Monkey's Dad September 21, 2019

beneficial side effect

Faced with the global COVID-19 pandemic, hostilities between nations seem to have vanished.

We are all in it together, all human and vulnerable to the same degree. If there can be a beneficial side effect to a devastating pandemic, it may be this awareness.

by Monkey's Dad April 07, 2020