{"id":5287,"date":"2006-09-13T16:27:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T20:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2014-05-17T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T13:00:03","slug":"bragging-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5287","title":{"rendered":"Bragging Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

I told Michael I brag about him. “I brag about you, you know.” He laughed at me. I mean, it’s so silly. To brag about someone else. It’s not MY success. It’s not MY life. It’s really just that – I’m proud of him, psyched – and also – not at all surprised. If I had never seen him again – and then heard he found success – I would have thought: “Well, it certainly seemed to be going that way.” So those of us who love Michael all were on the horn a couple of years ago – “Have you seen his movie yet? Have you seen it?” Mitchell leaving me phone messages about it. So cool. Michael’s endured my bragging about him. So let’s keep going, and I will link to this piece in Slate<\/a> about the movie he directed\/wrote\/starred in – and what it has to say about the state of independent film right now. We actually laughed about how he wanted to “show up” in one of those posts I wrote about him and say … something ridiculous and pointless … along the lines of: “I AM THE MAN SHE SPEAKS OF.” hahahaha I mean, what the hell else is there to say? Strange, I know – to be turned into a character on this here blog of mine – but whatever.<\/p>\n

See Kwik Stop<\/a><\/i>! You can get it on Netflix. Oh, and Ceci – my Argentinian friend – his film was completely embraced by your country. He always remembers the kindness of everyone in Buenos Aires, and how well he was received there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I told Michael I brag about him. “I brag about you, you know.” He laughed at me. I mean, it’s so silly. To brag about someone else. It’s not MY success. It’s not MY life. It’s really just that – … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600,1213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45582,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions\/45582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}