Monkey's Dad's definitions

teriorate

Strengthen, grow, become stable and whole.

With terioration and teriorating, the opposite of deteriorate, deterioration, deteriorating, words which exist to express a negative, with no positive correlative.

After recent years of watching the country and its spirit deteriorate, many Americans held to the hope that under new leadership it would begin to teriorate.

by Monkey's Dad August 25, 2020

Covocaust Denial

The insistence, as the death-rate mounts, that the COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax.

The hysteria was ridiculous, as every right-thinking person knew. The so-called 'coronavirus' was just the ordinary flu, had so far killed a tiny handful of people and was exaggerated in a liberal attempt at impeachment part 2. Anyone who called his truth-telling Covocaust Denial was a sore loser. Ask Rush.

by Monkey's Dad April 4, 2020

I never thought I'd be saying this

A phrase often heard as 2020 nears its end and people are forced to acknowledge some very strange things.

To have the family home for Thanksgiving would be suicidal, and I never thought I'd be saying this.

I never thought I'd be saying this, but we came within an inch of losing our democracy.

by Monkey's Dad November 19, 2020

wrydyllic

Perfect in every way, no foolin'.

Describing her wrydyllic Hollywood upbringing, with her famously absent, movie-star father, her alcoholic mother's three-day orgies that allowed her no place to hide, her joyous hitch-hiking escape up the coast to Haight-Ashbury at 14, she kept a straight face and slight smile, the better to confound her interviewer.

by Monkey's Dad March 6, 2020

Zoommates

Two or more people who regularly share online Zoom meetings.

They could no longer meet in class, or in the office, but after weeks of online meetings they felt like Zoommates.

by Monkey's Dad May 14, 2020

hope

An aspiration, a vision, a concept of betterment - the thing we cannot live without, the most essential element in the human spirit.

As 2020 ended, as 2021 shone with promise, there was reason for hope and much to hope for. Regained dignity for America, a life where everyone could once again move freely, could smile and touch, could breathe together without fear.

by Monkey's Dad January 1, 2021

Brazil

Thirty-five years ahead of its time, "Brazil" is a 1985 satirical black comedy directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Michael Palin, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm, it clearly foresees life in 2020, the systemic breakdown of society and its technology, including ubiquitous video surveillance and flawed facial recognition, the hero driving a SmartCar, cops breaking down the wrong door with an endless chain of consequences.

Several times a day, as 2020 limped to its ragged, sputtering, dysfunctional close, he found himself muttering "Brazil"...

by Monkey's Dad December 30, 2020