Monkey's Dad's definitions

through the cracks

Some fall through the cracks, others peek through.

Falling through the cracks, many Americans took to the streets in massive protest of racial injustice and police brutality. Peeking through the cracks, many Americans watched in fear as the streets were filled with anger and pain they could hardly comprehend.

by Monkey's Dad June 3, 2020

roc

rate of change. The speed at which change occurs.

Reeling from the unprecedented roc. And you?

by Monkey's Dad March 19, 2020

Bill Gatesgate

The paranoid, extreme right-wing conspiracy theory that Bill Gates planned to use a COVID-19 pandemic to take control of the global health system.

He was convinced that this amounted to Bill Gatesgate, yup, Billionaire Gates had spent years conspiring with Obama, and Hillary! to make money off the whole damn thing, which wasn't real anyway.

by Monkey's Dad April 17, 2020

one day at a time

The comforting delusion that time is linear and sequential. A fond and impossible dream for anyone living in a simultemporal state.

Feeling the weight of past, present and future always upon him, he yearned to experience time as most others described their experience, moment by moment, one day at a time.

by Monkey's Dad May 15, 2020

unstrung hero

Someone whose usual leadership skills are unraveling in the face of the unknown.

She knew her kids looked up to her, yet suddenly faced with total loss of income, feeling her symptoms of coronavirus increasing by the hour, she feared she would become their unstrung hero.

by Monkey's Dad March 25, 2020

it'll wait

The haircut, manicure or new tattoo some feel they can't live without.

It's only hair, and it'll wait.

by Monkey's Dad May 19, 2020

Glass slippers

In "Cinderella", a ridiculous mis-translation from the French. The original story, handed down orally, centered around "Vair" slippers, vair being squirrel fur. But "vair" sounds like "verre", the French word for glass, and so it continued. Fur slippers make perfect sense. But glass??

Cinderella felt sorry for the handsome prince, kneeling before her. She wondered what kind of idiot expected her to take two steps in glass slippers, when the beloved pair she had lost were made of fur. "I mean, glass shoes? Really?"

by Monkey's Dad March 1, 2020