The reflexive belief that "there is an app for everything", eclipsing the experience of simply being alive in the world.
They were in the woods on a sunny spring day. He was looking at the light streaming through the branches. She, having apptitude, was staring at her phone.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I want to know where we are" she answered.
"We are here" he sighed.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I want to know where we are" she answered.
"We are here" he sighed.
by Monkey's Dad April 28, 2021
Forced to work from home, shut in his tiny apartment all day, forbidden to go out at night, the isolution felt crippling.
by Monkey's Dad March 16, 2020
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
After so many years as a couple, being alone again was painful for each of them. The endless blind dates and occasional hookups made them feel more alone, rather than less, and left them missing the other. They both wondered what would happen if they tried again, to join forces, to be a pair, to give themselves a duover.
by Monkey's Dad March 08, 2020
In 2020, a patriotic march for a wounded nation.
A version of Stars and Stripes Forever, a piece which in show business was historically called "the Disaster March". When theaters and circuses had house bands, this march was a code signaling a life-threatening emergency. Except for impending disaster, circus bands never played the tune under any circumstances
A version of Stars and Stripes Forever, a piece which in show business was historically called "the Disaster March". When theaters and circuses had house bands, this march was a code signaling a life-threatening emergency. Except for impending disaster, circus bands never played the tune under any circumstances
July 4th approaching, feeling America at a moment of life-threatening disaster, he found himself whistling Scars and Stripes Forever, hoping it would not be forever, that our national fortunes would improve.
by Monkey's Dad July 01, 2020
As thousands of Californians stormed the beach to protest stay-at-home orders, the Coronavirus joined them in singing "Surf City, here we come!
by Monkey's Dad May 02, 2020
He had squandered his youth and was now beset by retropathy, needing to do it again and do it better. He would quit his job, find his first car and buy it back, find his old girlfriend and they'd hit the road. He'd wake up one morning and be twenty again. He was sure of it.
by Monkey's Dad October 30, 2021