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Fries with that?

The echo of a nearly-forgotten culture.

Awakening from a dream, the phrase "Fries with that?" kept playing in his head, like a guitar hook. It must have meant something, long ago, and perhaps it would come to him.

by Monkey's Dad April 20, 2020


Remdeceiver

A new 'miracle cure' for Covid-19 which is not a miracle cure.

"Remdeceiver is being touted as a cure", the epidemiologist said, "when it merely shortens the recovery of Covid-19 patients. We need either a cure or a vaccine."

by Monkey's Dad May 3, 2020

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nonline dating

Currently, the inadvisability of seeking a stranger online.

Her chronic belief that she'd discover a perfect man through the Internet was relegated, for the foreseeable future, to nonline dating.

by Monkey's Dad April 21, 2020


retrotisserie

During a time of austerity and scarcity, the fond recalling of foods you once loved.

Having eaten meagerly for weeks, he tried to conjure the smell of retrotisserie, shared meals from the recent past, now a comforting and beautiful dream.

by Monkey's Dad March 28, 2020


How To Be Nice

Day one: Bring her coffee in bed, in a personalized pink mug. She will think you show potential.
Day two: C'mon man, we gave you day one. The rest is up to you.

He knew it was one of those "If you need to ask" things. But still, being clueless, he entered "How To Be Nice" and held his breath.

by Monkey's Dad November 30, 2022


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


coronaviral

Something which spreads at unprecedented speed.

The swift lockdown of the planet was coronaviral.

by Monkey's Dad March 17, 2020

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