Monkey's Dad's definitions

silence enables violence

Evil flourishes when good people say nothing.

Speak out and stand up for what you believe, because our silence enables violence.

by Monkey's Dad June 5, 2020

CST

Covid Standard Time.

A new Time Zone which took effect in 2020, throwing Easter Standard Time, Pacific Daylight Time and all the rest into a state of irrelevance.

His appointment was Wednesday at 10:15 CST, which meant he might show up on Tuesday or Friday, a week early, two months late, anytime, really, because what is time now? Covid had revealed time as a hoax of some sort, whether perpetrated by the media or the universe he would figure out later, yesterday or never.

by Monkey's Dad July 27, 2022

recirculated err

Making the same mistake over and over.

He tried not to do the same stupid thing more that two hundred times, but it seemed to happen anyway, and he was growing tired of breathing recirculated err.

by Monkey's Dad May 1, 2020

innocential worker

An innocent and essential employee, placed at serious risk of viral infection in their workplace.

Customers refused to wear masks, citing their 'freedom', unconcerned with the lives of the innocential workers who had no choice but to serve them.

by Monkey's Dad May 13, 2020

Disturbin' Dictionary

A compendium of definitions for all the words you do not want to think about in a time of crisis.

Pandemic, contagion, death rate, infections, coronation, coronaviral, isolution... they kept appearing in the Disturbin' Dictionary when he was just looking for a laugh.

by Monkey's Dad March 21, 2020

Surf City, here we come

Theme song shared by Huntington Beach protestors and viruses alike.

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 2, 2020

Darnella Frazier

Ms. Frazier is the courageous young woman whose eyewitness video of the George Floyd killing by former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, became a crucial artifact of American history.

Only 17 at the time, Darnella Frazier is to the Floyd killing what Abraham Zapruder was to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an accidental bystander with a camera, a vital witness to a pivotal moment. Ms. Frazier's video of the arrest, which recorded Floyd's plea - I can't breathe - as Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than 9 minutes, sparked protests across the country. A witness at Chauvin's murder trial, Ms. Frazier expressed regret for not physically confronting Mr. Chauvin. “It’s been nights I stayed up apologizing and apologizing to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life,” Ms. Frazier said.

by Monkey's Dad April 1, 2021