Announcement from the Management
The Management of this blog, in consultation with our closest advisors, has determined that there wasn’t really much to that whole ARG idea after all.
We regret the error and any inconvenience it may have caused.
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Trifecta said,
August 2, 2007 at 6:56 am
ummm.
This would make a film script tho, dont ya fink?
cadeveo said,
August 2, 2007 at 7:05 am
What happened to post that you had up here linking to the “definite case-closed” article. Why’d'ja delete it?
Or are my eyes just not working?
HMW said,
August 2, 2007 at 7:33 am
There’s plenty to the Alternate Reality Game idea. Just not in this case.
Plenty to be learned, anyway.
I’m reading Jo Durden-Smith’s 1976 book, ‘Who Killed George Jackson?’
He investigated the Black Panthers and double agents like Louis Tackwood and COINTELPRO tactics in the Bay area ca. 1969-1972.
What he found was so confusing and dark and deadly that his book ended up being an amazing psychological profile of all sides of ‘the sixties’ when it became deceptive and deadly.
His comments comparing history as fiction and history as fact and how eventually shared beliefs take on their own weight of reality are quite applicable to what we are doing here with the threads that lead to the life of Theresa Duncan.
veal said,
August 2, 2007 at 11:23 am
Let me guess. Someone snuck into your place, got your passwords and posted this. Dream’s End is nowhere to be found.
Doodad said,
August 2, 2007 at 1:28 pm
You’ve got management? Just how big an enterprise is this?
lol
gothamcityinsider.com said,
August 2, 2007 at 2:51 pm
There’s a great article in LA Weekly about Theresa Duncan written by a friend of hers. Speaks volumes.
http://www.gothamcityinsider.com/2007/08/oh-theresa.html
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/the-theresa-duncan-tragedy/16942/
dreamsend said,
August 2, 2007 at 4:47 pm
No…I’m here. No mystery. No death threats. I’ll have a post up in a few hours I hope to explain…
the see said,
August 2, 2007 at 5:05 pm
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/the-theresa-duncan-tragedy/16942/
Kate Coe? Some friend…
gothamcityinsider.com said,
August 2, 2007 at 5:05 pm
dreamsend, i don’t want to assume but we may be feeling the same way. for a few days i was just fascinated. i was lost in the fascination almost. i think when they ID’d jeremy blakes body, i just got depressed. i returned to realising these were just regular people and it was just a sad tragic tale. no conspiracies. no nothing. and then after reading Kate Coe’s article in LA Weekly it just sealed the deal. i felt bad for theresa and i could relate to some of it. its just sad and i think it took everyone a few days to walk out of the ether and realise it.
gothamcityinsider.com said,
August 2, 2007 at 5:07 pm
@ the see: i thought it was an artfully written piece. it seemed honest and real. i wasn’t looking to read a 4 page love fest. i learned more about this story from kate’s article than anything else so far. she was a good friend. she was honest and told the story truthfully and didn’t fluff it up with bullshit.
CB said,
August 2, 2007 at 5:14 pm
the see: Sometimes a real friend tells the truth, warts and all, as they say…too bad that Jeremy and Theresa were not told the truth more often. But I guess if they were they’d have dismissed it as professional or personal rivalry.
Unfortunately, only clear threats of harm to yourself or others merits serious official intervention. Apparently Theresa was not sending out clear signals about this, or at least not to anybody who knew how to act, or who wanted to act on her behalf.
If people are looking for a mystery, maybe they should look into how these people were allowed to decompensate so completely without the aid of “friends” or family.
That is where the true tale lies.
DE, I’ve been reading your whole site with great interest. YOu do ask the best questions!
schmalie said,
August 2, 2007 at 5:37 pm
no regrets about this site or the intriguing questions you posed.
only regrets are that two gifted artists couldn’t still be around making art, living life and loving each other.
i found this blog compelling and incredibly well written.
almost too compelling…. i slacked off quite a bit in the last few days.
there are many sides to every story. we shall never know the “truth”.
the truth has many sides.
Much like a multi faceted crystal stopper
the kind you find on the top of a very expensive bottle of perfume….
ciara said,
August 2, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I look forward to your next post, it has made for compelling reading.
Banta said,
August 2, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Well, the ARG concept is still intriguing and worth exploring, even if it wasn’t being used in this particular instance.
Professor Pan said,
August 2, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Agreed — though the ARG angle didn’t work out, it was compelling reading.
cdub said,
August 2, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Kate Coe’s piece goes far beyond any of the other blog & news items on the Duncan & Blake deaths – she actually talked to a large number of people who knew them, and their statements are now on record.
“I knew that much of what she wrote about her world was an elaborate tale, taken as fact by the uninitiated.” “In a written exchange in 2006, Duncan and I discussed how people create personal façades.” (Kate Coe, LA Weekly)
Personally, I think the Coe piece, for example the statements above, completely vindicates DE’s five part investigation into Duncan & Blake – even if the “alternate reality” wasn’t quite what DE hypothesized about, or what anybody else thought he meant.
HMW said,
August 2, 2007 at 8:46 pm
An online imposter claimed to be assassination investigator Lisa Pease and claimed to be suicidal on July 8.
Coincidence?
Lisa Pease exposed this on her own blog July 11 and wrote that she was just fine, thank you, and if anything happened to her it wasn’t suicide.
http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/
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Doodad said,
August 3, 2007 at 1:33 am
I would just like to add my accolades to DE. All in all, a fascinating series of posts covering a lot of ground and ending in an honest fashion. Above all, you were respectful as you were curious. I wonder how many, like me, wish we had heard of Theresa long before this.
wonderer in the wilderness said,
August 3, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Sorry, cdub, but the impression I get from reading Coe is that she is jealous of Duncan. No wonder, as Duncan had everything Coe didn’t–multiple talants, brains, looks and Jeremy. Color her green, a pew-trid bile-green.