The visual appearance - facial features, body type and mode of dressing - of ordinary people in a particular country or region.
She exemplified the Parisian vernocular. Without an extra pound, without jewelry or makeup, without piercings or tattoos - Mon Dieu! - her hair brushed up and away from her face, held in an easy ponytail, she was dressed with exquisitely simple taste, everything of the most subtle colors and quality, and her appearance radiated graceful self-possession. She could not have come from anywhere else.
by Monkey's Dad April 06, 2020
Page one of The New York Times, May 24, 2020 - a list of nearly 100,000 names of Americans who have died from coronavirus in the past few weeks.
by Monkey's Dad May 24, 2020
Seeing him walking out of the theater holding hands with another woman?! Three days! after he had broken up with her?! Telling her he wasn't ready for a relationship??!! She smiled at him and said a quiet hello, cursing him ferociously under her breath, hoping he could not see how damnbivalent she was.
by Monkey's Dad March 21, 2020
The number of days it took the Unites States to add one million cases of coronavirus to its total - 99 for the first million, 43 for the second, 28 for the third million, the fruits of heedlessly 're-opening'.
He stared at the numbers. 99-43-28. Not a football play. Not the combination of a safe. It was exponential, viral spread of the disease. And he understood that this is what viral' means, and that they could reasonably expect another million to accrue in the next two weeks or so.
by Monkey's Dad July 08, 2020
The long-standing slogan of Portland, Oregon, at present ground zero in the new world of American Fascism.
"Be careful what you wish for", he thought, passing the downtown mural that said 'Keep Portland Weird'. Hours earlier, he had been grabbed by heavily-armed, camo-clad paramilitary, thrown into an unmarked van, blindfolded, sped away, dragged into a building, interrogated, and much later dumped back on the street. Portland was getting weird in ways that no one could have imagined.
by Monkey's Dad July 26, 2020
Involuntary isolation for people not intelligent enough to protect their own and others' well-being.
He'd ignored every warning, had gone to the packed bar, the beach and the barber, was coughing and feverish, and now found himself in mandatory morontine.
by Monkey's Dad May 23, 2020
The intelligence to keep your orifices - nostrils and mouth - covered during a pandemic. Those who deny that Covid exists may refer to it as scoffingly as OI as they wheeze their final breath.
Dismissing Orificial Intelligence, she was, for some reason, on a ventilator. "I mean, Marjorie ain't on no damn ventilator and she wears a mask. Around her neck. And she got real intelligence."
by Monkey's Dad November 22, 2021