{"id":3720,"date":"2005-10-11T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2022-10-09T20:06:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T00:06:39","slug":"it-would-be-so-empty-without-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3720","title":{"rendered":"It Would Be So Empty Without Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, folks. Not sure what it is about this particular post <\/a>– but random people out there seem to be under the impression that I actually AM Marshall Mathers. Check out the last couple of comments. I finally closed the post, and deleted about 20 other comments like those … but now … they have tracked down my email, and they send me tormented notes – (or – they send Marshall tormented notes … thinking that I AM him)<\/p>\n

“Yo! Don’t retire, yo!”<\/p>\n

And generally, they all refer to him as “Em”. You know, the familiarity of a nickname.<\/p>\n

“Yo, Em, heard the news. I am so sad. So sad.”<\/p>\n

Em. hahaha<\/p>\n

I have no idea what is going on – who linked to this post – it’s not in my referral log – but somehow – it has spread across the planet that you can actually leave messages for “Em” here.<\/p>\n

These letters, by the way, do come from all over the world. One dude wrote to me (or … he wrote to Marshall Mathers) from Kuwait. “I am from Kuwait … we love your music … do not retire!” (To quote Humphrey Bogart: “You know you’re famous when they know your name in Karachi.”)<\/p>\n

Well now it looks like Mr. Mathers is taking a small break, but reports of his “retirement” were hugely exaggerated. You hear that, world? So you can stop writing me tormented letters bemoaning the loss you already feel. Mkay? Eminem ain’t going anywhere.<\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, he’s putting together a greatest hits album<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So calm down, world. Calm the hell DOWN everyone who has written to me from Indiana, from Germany, from France, from Kuwait, from England, from Idaho, from Queens, from Sydney Australia, from India … (I’m not kidding – these are the countries and states represented in the letter chain).<\/p>\n

Mr. Marshall Mathers is not retiring.<\/p>\n

Also: I AM NOT EMINEM. I don’t know why you think I am … but I am not!!!<\/p>\n

Just cleanin’ out my closet here, folks, just cleanin’ out my closet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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