A funny piece in The New Yorker by Jay Martel suggests a new lexicon for the pandemic, including the body mullet worn on Zoom calls (“Business up top, party down below”), and new names for days of the week to reflect the way they all seem to run together: Someday, Noneday, Whoseday?, Whensday?, Blursday, Whyday?, and Doesn’tmatterday. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “In These Uncertain Times, We Need New Names for the Days of the Week”
Grant, I know you’re familiar with the term blurs day.
Blurs day, yeah, that’s when all the days of the week blur together. Not sure what day of the week it is. Although on the recent 30 Rock television special, Liz Lemon called it blurs day, and since she’s a pro at that, I’ll take blurs day as well.
Blar’s Day?
Blar’s Day.
Well, I loved it when I first heard this, just the way all the days seem to be running together now. But I was kind of wishing that there were words for other days of the week besides Blur’s Day, which I use on Thursdays.
And then I came across an essay in The New Yorker called Lexicon for a Pandemic by Jay Martell, who offered some day, none day, whose day, when’s day, blurs day, why day, and doesn’t matter day for each day of the week.
I really like that. It was a bunch of terms for the times we live in now, like body mullet, which is what most people wear on Zoom calls, a nice top and below the waist underwear or less.
Business up top, party down below, maybe, maybe not party so much as like disarray.
Yeah, or flattening the curve, trying to fit into your jeans after three months of sweatpants.
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