Oh the family thing

[marlowe1]

It was pretty cool. I had enough beers to be sociable. I got in a conversation with a second cousin whose part Indian so he had lot of stories about his own Indian side of the family being fucked up (two cousins not related to me killed in nasty ways - one was a drug deal gone bad and the other a dating the girl with the abusive ex story) but he was cool and his dad is one of those relatives that tells the story of throwing me up in the air and hitting my head on the ceiling. Lovely. Uncle Larry said he dropped me on my head too. Either I'm just the weird kid and these cousins and uncles are trying to explain it or I had the clumsiest fucking babysitters on the planet.

SOnny kept telling circumcision jokes. I knew I should have wore the black yarmulke instead of the knitted one. ANd then I saw that his ring has fucking swatstikas and SS symbols (old Viking symbols -ja sure - since we're Hungarian) but he and Mom got along (they were childhood friends - they sold shoe polish out of the garbage together and Sonny killed Mom's doll with Uncle Herman's car - but they haven't spoken much lately)

And most of my other relations were a bit weirded out by me wearing the yarmulke (knitted so I had that Israeli look going) and carrying around a book entitled Porno as if it was on purpose (no, it was just a cool book - almost done. He's been keeping Renton and Begbie away from each other throughout but now it's the last 50 pages)

Comments

[bloodedblossom.livejournal.com]

Not that it's my business, but this post has me curious: is your religion not inherited?

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

nope. Actually in process of converting.

[malaryush.livejournal.com]

sounds like my uncle sonny except for the weird rings... oddly enough he lives in Minneapolis as well. Except we're dutch not hungarian... and he has an alternate late night talk radio nickname "John from Minneapolis" where he speaks of his conspiracy theories.

ummm lets see

[loyehudhara.livejournal.com]

ok lets see,many of your relatives dropped you on yer head.......hmmm that explains it all....(evil laugh)

Re: ummm lets see

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Yeah the whole lot of them has "I dropped Tim on his head" stories.