Something which is in front of us, yet cannot or will not be seen.
The visual equivalent of 'falling on deaf ears'.
The visual equivalent of 'falling on deaf ears'.
Inside the White House, the numbers kept falling on blind eyes, unable to see that infection rates were exploding, that their candidate was massively behind in the polls, that across the country, people were on the march and would not back down.
by Monkey's Dad June 24, 2020
In a Hypocractic form of government, the inalienable right to say one thing and do another, as exemplified by Senator Lindsey Graham.
'"Use my words against me" doesn't mean "hold me accountable"', said Graham. "As a Republican, I am exercising my Hypocratic Right to say and do anything I want to."
by Monkey's Dad September 22, 2020
The opposite of a conversation. A talk in which both parties are in complete and sustained agreement and all ideas move forward.
They seemed separated at birth, seeing the world through such similar eyes that neither needed to finish a sentence. As they talked, their ideas building one upon the next, enlarging the world and each others' thoughts, they could only term it a proversation.
by Monkey's Dad June 18, 2021
Doctor Dolittle's more eccentric office-mate. A person so fully connected to the animals that he finds humans strangely exotic.
"Where's Doctor Donothing?"
"Outside, where he's been since four AM, feeding the deer, the squirrels and chipmunks, the birds and the dogs. When I try to talk to him, he looks at me like I belong in an aquarium."
"Outside, where he's been since four AM, feeding the deer, the squirrels and chipmunks, the birds and the dogs. When I try to talk to him, he looks at me like I belong in an aquarium."
by Monkey's Dad October 24, 2020
The capital of Hell in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost: "Pandemonium, the High Capital, of Satan and his Peers".
Humanity collapsing into chaos from a rampant and uncontrollable pandemic.
Humanity collapsing into chaos from a rampant and uncontrollable pandemic.
Almost broken by another 12-hour nursing shift, she could foresee a world devastated by the pandemic, ungoverned civilization - what was left of it - thrown into Pandemonium.
by Monkey's Dad April 10, 2020
A person able to move their limbs freely, to walk about their beloved cities, towns, beaches and parks. A person looking forward to same, if and when the coronavirus pandemic ends.
After days of forced isolation in his minuscule New York apartment, able to touch all four walls at once, he yearned to open the door, to hit the street, to walk, to run, to be a free range human.
by Monkey's Dad March 20, 2020
Fear of the coming year, as twenty-twenty-three draws to a close and 2024 presents potential for catastrophic damage, with A.I. and a certain former president threatening to overturn the world as we have known it.
He had lived through a great deal, yet the prospect of 2024 was inducing twenty-twenty-phorbia, the deep-seated fear of the year ahead.
by Monkey's Dad December 05, 2023