As she logged in to her Tuesday morning creative writing seminar, she looked around at the Halls of Epidemia, which looked almost exactly like her bedroom.
by Monkey's Dad April 06, 2020
Get the The Halls of Epidemia mug.She had always taken comfort in the idea that character is destiny, that good people would prevail, that the bad would receive their just punishment. Now, with the possibility of a second term, and the further catastrophe it would unleash, she was not so sure.
by Monkey's Dad September 19, 2020
Get the character is destiny mug.Deriving gratification, sexual or otherwise, from exposing one's naked facial orifices, flirting with the risk to self and others of suffering, pain and death. Refusing to wear a mask in public, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sadism and Maskochism combined.
Knowing he might be infecting other people, or that he might get infected, he strode barefaced into the crowd, feeling the thrill of public nakedness, thrilled by his sadomaskochism.
by Monkey's Dad June 12, 2020
Get the Sadomaskochism mug.The inverse of dementia. A state of mental incline rather than decline. Having not only all one's marbles but too many.
He could remember every almost word he had ever read, could recount conversations verbatim from several decades earlier, knew the names of minor characters, and the actors who had played them, in movies he had never seen. He could remember the name of a person he had met in passing many years ago, while some of his contemporaries searched for the names of their nearest and dearest. The diagnosis was direct: He was suffering from early onset mentia.
by Monkey's Dad July 03, 2023
Get the mentia mug.A person coming of age in the coronaviral age, home-schooled, missing out on dating, beer, pot and every other rite of social passage.
Watching "Clueless", "Ladybird" and "Booksmart" while in lockdown, she yearned to experience the geeky teen years which were her birthright and hated-hated-hated being a dorky quaranteenager.
by Monkey's Dad March 28, 2020
Get the Quaranteenager mug.The amount of carbon dioxide - essentially zero - emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a person in the grip of Cabin Fever, staying at home during the pandemic.
She wasn't flying. She wasn't driving. She wasn't even walking, except to pace her apartment in a state of cabin fever. She figured she could at least be proud of her tiny cabin footprint.
by Monkey's Dad April 06, 2020
Get the Cabin Footprint mug."Because my closest friends will be there", she said, "everyone I most like spending time with", explaining why she refused to go to the party. He could counter any reasonable explanation with facts, but hearing her irrationalize, he became flummoxed and just gave in.
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