feel good inc?

It all started when Dan's friend Adam sent us a DVD in the mail of some documentary that Christian wanted Dan to see. In the package, presumably to provide some sort of stiff backing to the disc, Adam included a piece of corrugated cardboard, onto which he had drawn, without much thought I'm sure, a cartoon smileyface and the words FEEL GOOD. This piece of cardboard had its first funny-strange moment when it arrived in the mail exactly as Dan was yakking all the contents of his food-poisoned stomach into the upstairs toilet. We said "heh Adam says 'feel good' Dan!" and watched the DVD, and the piece of cardboard was cast aside in the livingroom.

A couple weeks later, my uncle Pat contracted a mysterious illness that made him super lethargic. He didn't know what it was or how to kick it, so he came over to the Big House to watch some West Wings and eat his mom's bologna sammiches on white bread. He was sitting on the couch feeling crappy when he noticed a piece of cardboard sitting behind the lamp on the side table. He picked it up and shouted, and I mean shouted: "Who drew this picture of my dad telling me to feel good!?"


My late grandfather, Jack Brickley:


It's possible that the similarities might not strike you immediately. Especially if you didn't know my grandpa Jack. But it really does look like him! The downturned eyes, the short nose, the broad smirk! Who are you, Adam?! Are you part of some interdimensional conspiracy of souls to make people feel good?

Anyway, Pat started feeling better and Grandma got all teary-eyed and huggy, and now the cardboard cartoon is propped against the lamp, beaming down upon the livingroom. Pat is making plans to have it matted and framed. Thanks Adam! (And welcome to a spot on the King's wall). Moreover, thanks to Grandpa for having the kind of character that can manifest in anything, even in six lines drawn on cardboard, and make everyone feel good.