The Trouble with Witty Flights: Contents under Pressure
One of the hardest things she went through, she says today, was just getting people to believe that all of the harassment was going on. ‘If you tell people you're being followed, they think you're...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Witty Flights: The ‘Wrong’ Thread
As a whole Rigint is a masterpiece of confabulation and satire, news and conspiracy that despite blending real threats with UFO gobbledlygook somehow manages to get to the black heart of the matter....
View ArticleThe X-Spot: Year Seven
Another year has come and gone. During that time, I’ve done half one series, and half of another. The old gray mare just ain’t what it used to be. I’d like to say there wasn’t that much action...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Witty Flights: Sacred Toenails, Legal or Otherwise
Edited 2/26/13In podcasts and on his blog, dreamsend mentioned that his suspicions regarding the ARG-like qualities of Wit of the Staircase received affirmation from sources that implied or stated some...
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The Trouble with Witty Flights: Who’s Matheny?
Edited 2/27/13.Anyone who knew anything about the lives and deaths of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan could readily see the parallels between them and the unfinished novel, The Last Statue. Looking at...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Witty Flights: Olympus Has Fallen for Golden Apples and...
Click here to see an update on a previous post in this series.The History of Glamour has never gone out of release, and is [sic] far as I'm concerned we're still watching the sixties unfold...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Witty Flights: Dissidence and Patriotism, Off the Deep End
Got your deep paranoia suit on? Then proceed with caution. Updated 2/28/13Paranoia seems to us an absolute patriotic duty at the moment, and Rigorous Intuition is like the incredibly symbolically...
View ArticleThe End of a Blog
I got a snail mail today from Langley. It reads, in part, as follows:Mr. Dell (or would you prefer Dr. X?)We at CIA are most disturbed by your posts, and feel that you have a decided bias that we...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Witty Flights: A Review
Will this scatomancy never end? It's not an ouroborous; it's a circlejerk, from top to bottom.--Earlier anonymous commenter on this series.Hmm. All this time, I thought I had made myriad points....
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The Trouble with Witty Flights: The Existentially Modern Postmodern Couple
As I was saying....A professor once asked me to define ‘postmodernism’ in twenty-five words or less. My reply: “Beats the hell out of me.”That’s six words.Seven years later, I still can’t define...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Witty Flights: Tickling the Master’s Creatures
You never did!–The Kenosha KidIn a 6 February 2006 interview for LAist, Adrienne Crew queried Theresa Duncan’s opinion on the “Best LA-themed book(s).”Duncan’s reply: The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Witty Flights: Gravity’s Allusions
A number of items appearing in the works of Thomas Pynchon find echoes in the posts on Wit of the Staircase. Some of these seem to be throwaways. For example, in Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon made a...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Witty Flights: Gravity’s Allusions , Pt. II
Edited 8/1/13Allusion 3: Profundity vs. Absurdity.Absurdity, with respect to existentialist philosophy, denotes the condition brought about by the conflict between human need, and the indifference of...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Witty Flights: The Few and the Damned
Warning: Spoiler Alert.I’m gonna make it to heaven.Light up the sky like a flame.Fame!I’m gonna live forever.Baby remember my name. –Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford, “Fame” (from the movie Fame)All...
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The Trouble with Witty Flights: Kicking Pig-Tailed Ass
...and is far as I'm concerned we're still watching the sixties unfold culturally.--Theresa Duncan, interview with Adrienne Crew, LAist (6 February 2006)Allusion 6: The “We Conspiracy” vs. the “They...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Witty Flights: Contents under Pressure
Edited for accuracy and clarification 7/3/13.The depiction of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan given by the likes of Kate Coe, Laurie Winer, Nancy Jo Sales, or for that matter the producers of Law &...
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The Trouble with Witty Flights: A Grave Allusion
‘You know, Ombindi’s eyes rolled the other way, looking up at a mirror-image of Enzian that only he can see, ‘there’s. . . well, something you ordinarily wouldn’t think of as erotic--but it’s really...
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The Trouble with Witty Flights: An Ironic Epilogue in the Key of Social Drama
Suicide. Murder. Intrigue.These were the three narratives of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan battling for public attention when I first began looking into this story in early-2008. On a surface...
View ArticleI’m Only Sleeping
Please don’t wake me.No, don’t shake me.Leave me where I am.I’m only sleeping.–John Lennon and Paul McCartney, “I’m Only Sleeping,” Revolver (UK), Yesterday and Today (US), 1966.As you can probably...
View ArticleLooking through a Glass Onion
I told you ‘bout Strawberry Fields:You know, the place where nothing is real.Well, here’s another place you can go,Where everything flows.Looking through the bent back tulipsTo see how the other half...
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