So as promised, I'm blogging my impressions of my brother's wedding to a wonderful Muslim girl- which happened this weekend. This event will be followed by their coming reception on July 2nd.
My post has taken a different turn though. Things did not go as expected.
My wife and I dropped off our middle three kids with relatives and headed down on Friday afternoon to attend the wedding that was scheduled for Saturday.
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Thanks for the reblog. This post is responsible for the all-time busiest day in Misplaced Grace history. Wow!
It was also nice to see some of the regulars here commenting on my blog (Steve, I’m looking at you).
I don’t regret it, though I’ve got a shitstorm to clean up after.
It is sexy when you criticize muslims and get “blog-hit” rewarded!
I need to sit down and really read it so I can make an excellent response.
And by excellent, I mean start a fight with someone there.
I got the ball rolling with one guy.
The worst of the shitstorm is on FB though, and it’s mostly with family.
Haha. It appears that there are pieces missing to the puzzle of your fb thread.
That sucks. I hope you have screen captures.
It looks like it was a great time!
Do you think I was too harsh? I kinda ripped my cousins wife a new one.
I didn’t get screen captures because it was family, and I didn’t think she was going to back down.
Her comment was everything you think it was and not much more.
I had a PM conversation with my brother’s wife, and that went about as well as you imagine. I hope I don’t forfeit the deposit on the tux for the July 2nd reception…..
I didn’t think you were harsh. I’ve seen you harsher.
I would like to know that Behind the Scenes convo.
I was glad to see Misty involved.
As far as I’m concerned, you did right. Sometimes people don’t know that they really needed to hear that perspective.
Good side- I doubled my Twitter following and broke a record on my blog
Bad side- May have estranged myself from my whole family.
Fucking principles.
I have huge “faith” in family … that they will come through.
And, as you alluded to the growing twitter family, family is somewhat relative …
I would hope that the bond of family is stronger than this event.
Scapegoating might be a dynamic in this stressful event of a family member marrying into a different religion.
Hold steady and make some phone calls.
It’ll pass. It should anyway.
Or play it the other way. There’s a definitive play toward notoriety as well.
Hmm.
On the subject of “blog crack”, after getting the busiest day ever for this post, my follow up almost doubled that record! Big thanks to you Jer, and Jason for really pushing my blog lately…