When Glitter Goes Wrong

When I put my virtual pen to paper, most days I have a general idea of what I want to write about. I think y’all know by now that I’m a pretty stream-of-consciousness type writer with poor editing skillz.

Yesterday, I was thinking about what to write for today. No scheduled sponsored posts or Unfake Weddings. Nothing to report here that you can’t find else where on the Blogosphere (OH MY GOD! Alfred Angelo knocked off the Carolina Herrera Bella Swan wedding gown! For $799!). I actually considered writing a “what I’m thankful for” post. But instead (and happily for you guys) I took a swig of my Two Buck Chuck to clear the almost-vomit from my mouth as well as that boring thought from my brain.  In my blog-apathy, I jumped on Twitter for a little internet trolling.

Fucking jackpot.

I found me some serious Blog Drama. I thought I had blog drama? Oh no, my little chickadees. I ain’t got NUTHIN’ on yesterday’s shenanigans.

OK, so I’m sitting here wondering if I should do all the linking to all the articles and shit that were flying all around everywhere and methinks NO because I don’t necessarily care to increase the traffic to some of these sites. I think I’ll just mention the people and you guys can find it all yourselves, if you’re so inclined.1

It all started with what was a pretty innocent tweet from bad-ass wedding blogger, East Side Bride. She’s snarky to the n^th degree and tells it like it is. I like her. The tweet in question was one that expressed a hint of snarky, but was mostly benign in nature  in regards to a DIY project that was posted on the “lifestyle” blog Oh Happy Day! In the opinion of T30SB? It was a really stupid project that was made to look slightly less stupid by nice photography. I thought the snark-o-tweet was justifiable.

Apparently the tweet was NOT appreciated by OHD. There was some back and forth between ESB and OHD. OHD  got her DIY panties in a twist. ESB fueled the fire and retaliated on her blog. Personally, I thought the retaliation was brilliantly funny. It started what I thought was an awesome thread full of “let’s make fun of stupid shit on the internet” sarcasm. I mean, we’re all fodder for it, are we not?

Then the shit got personal.

Someone found an article where OHD was quoted about her Mormonism, Prop 8 and black people. The quote was creepy, at best. It gave me the impression that she was against Prop 8 (anti-gay marriage) as were many of her fellow church goers, but then it was followed by weirdness regarding why protesters weren’t visiting predominantly black churches instead of her nice, white Mormon church (I’m paraphrasing for emphasis). The whole article made me feel slightly icky.

So folks were commenting on ESB  and Twitter, all up in OHD’s shit. I had to go make dinner so made myself STEP AWAY FROM THE LAPTOP. Let me tell you, it was like it was 1991 all over again and I was forcing myself NOT to finish reading John Grisham’s The Firm while driving. It was that good.

Fast forward to a lazy morning with The Candyman, some coffee and whoa! some shit happened last night. Some super-sleuth person did some amazeballz  journalistic, stalker-style internet shit and found a public record where OHD had made a donation of $250 IN SUPPORT of Prop 8. And they linked it.

Uh oh. Little Miss I’m So Liberal might be experiencing that god-awful taste of shoe-leather right about now.

That’s the rub about the internet. That damn accountability thing is a total bitch. You cannot hide on the internet. Ever. Fucking caches.

And this is what can happen when you write about making glitter-handled faux flatware as a hostess gift: you get your maybe-white-supremacist, anti-gay marriage views splattered across the interwebs for all the world to judge.

And I thought ragging on polyester gowns was bad….

*As a totally different aside, I found this article today. I’ve bookmarked it for future reading. I plan on visiting this article when I think I’m having a bad day. Based on some of these stories, whatever bullshit I think I might be enduring will seem like peonies and pizza in comparison. Enjoy. Or not.

Oh yeah…. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

1OK, OK. You can find all the drama linked in the comments section of ESB's post from yesterday as well as on her Twitterfeed.

Comments

[veronica]

Ohmigosh, I only saw the original tweet by ESB and wondered what sort of drama would unfold. I never imagined it would turn in THAT direction. Dang. I wish I had more time to read through it all. I prefer my drama online and between strangers.

[Michelle]

Holy crap those things are FUGLY!! I love glittery things, but those are an insult to glittery things! Barf!

[Melissa]

I saw people posting about "glittergate" on twitter and had missed what happened! Thanks for filling us in.

[Louise]

"Glittergate" = Awesome.

[RogueBride]

Well, I know what I'll be reading over my next cup(s) of coffee. I LOLed multiple times reading your recap of events. Glittergate. Omg.