i got a fever...

this past summer i went home to visit my folks in ames, iowa. while i was there we were hit by major flooding. without clean water for several days. which, in the grand scheme of things, ain't shit. but there was massive flood damage to businesses and homes and many people were displaced. during this time i decided to get a temp job doing flood clean up. the place where i was assigned was the unfortunately located and lazily named, riverside nursing home. the water had come up so fast that it blasted out a nearly foot thick wall and filled the basement with a vile river sludge five feet high. it was insane. luckily i have a beard. i say this because i was one of the only goons not assigned to shovel the basement, as my respirator couldn't seal tight to my face and therefor i would have been breathing in some inhuman stench. anyhoot. my assignment was various cleaning on the residential level. one particular day (of the entire month we all spent there) i was disinfecting a room and noticed something hanging off the side of one of the hospital beds that made me laugh. dangling from a rubber cord was a silver cowbell. so i snapped a picture and sent it to a bunch of friends via text message with the following phrase "you know what this bed needs? more cowbell. fever: cured" a la the old "more cowbell" saturday night live blue oyster cult sketch. which brings up a funny side note. back in the summer of 2006 i happened to see blue oyster cult in atlanta. and, as you might have guessed, people brought cowbells. but did they wait until "don't fear the reaper"? hell no. it was probably only about 10 or 15 that actually showed up with them but it sounded like 3/4 of the audience had them at the time. every song. the entire song. 500 assholes with cowbells. donk! donk! donk! donk! donk! there was nothing not hilarious about it. oh well, they seemed to be good sports about it. i mean, i'm pretty sure they had a spike in album sales due to the sketch anyway. no such thing as bad publicity, i suppose. DONK!