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Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:35:38 -0000

Loz--have you read Frank's latest Perugia-Shock blog? It's like you two have been resonating.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:30:36 -0000

Here's Theresa Duncan's blog
http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/
it's pretty much the same as the day she died except a memorial message has been added by her friend, and a really elaborate (controversial) article about an (well-known) artist, Anna Gaskill, an old girlfriend of JB's, was pulled within days of Duncan's death. TD had spun an already complex tale into an insanely complex tale about Anna's father (Nebraska) as a secret CIA agent involved with Child Pornography and it was wild. Her estate removed that one. I love her stories about Kate Moss (she loved Kate Moss, some of these entries are really funny) and the entry about the smoking museum. Her descriptions of perfume, and especially an LA perfume were so poetic and perfect. TD had absolutely exquisite taste and it permeates her blog. She had calendared two items, which is why you see one for Oct 07, which is after she died (she died in July). I think there is one more she had programmed in coming. So she reaches from the grave.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:21:25 -0000

Thanks for the tip CW. I hadn't read the Vanity Fair article--had a little more than I knew about Beck who previously said they were only briefly acquainted, and I didn't know Jeremy's father died of AIDS. I did not know them. Beck's grandfather was a Beat artist. Everyone has known Beck was a Scientologist since he first hit the scene in 96-97. If you are interested you can really get a hit of herpersonality at her blog. I learned a lot from Theresa. She was an insane genius. Her writing is brilliant, but some has been known to have been plagarized. She had very troubled creative relationships. He had a very bright future in the art world. I was aware of their work and had seen his art before they died. I still can't rule out much harder drugs with these two.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:32:45 -0000

The voting idea is sort of skewed since obviously people have given up and left and there are others who can't figure out what's going on well enough to even express an opinion.

i think it is 100% Steve's decision; i abstain, but i think the software is not ready for primetime, and that it has negatively impacted the community. I do not think the failure is a result of resistance to change.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:18:25 -0000

I sm very interested in Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan. I have a life in the art world.
I printed out her whole blog (which is the BEST) and gave it to Dominick to read before he had dinner with a writer who was very interested in the case as well. DD thinks S are nuts, too.
Anyhow, couple things--many of their friends thought that J was gay. One possible conflict.
2. One story told to me was that TB had an affair and it was very devastating to both she and JB. 3. That same person told me that JB had actually been to their place while she was dying--she was still alive but he left, and came back later with the minister when she was officially found. There are those that went to "murder-suicide" which fits the ethic of this scenario. She drank (whisky? can't remember) and took tylenol, but haven't heard about any tox report, in a way, they sound like junkies, but no one has said that to me. DD just swooned when I told him her final entry included: I am in the arms of the great lover. (We thought that was a pretty brilliant final sentence.) Two very very smart and talented people, but she burned a lot of bridges, was not strong on the truth in cases, and created a twisted trail. Very psychologically intense couple of people with a very complex relationship. He was a brilliant artist and on the cusp of a big break-through. He has a show up now at the Corcoran in DC that was planned before he died. Another great study in humanity.

(I don't think they were being stalked by the Scientologists, but maybe. I know I was followed by them one day after I took some pictures of their new logo displayed suddenly on a bunch of their buildings in Hollywood last summer...D said be careful. It was weird; they have this new real Stalinistic sort of logo--)

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:28:12 -0000

http://perugia-shock.blogspot.com/

frank is most entertaining today.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:05:39 -0000

I am sorry Steve. I know you are a writer, and a good one, and it's true, I have not come here today through the blog because I was afraid I would be more confused, lose my place and have to figure out the configurations again. I may am not smart enough for this new software.

Please forgive me and I will take a break, come back another time to see if this is a little more user-friendly or if it simply is over my head.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:58:41 -0000

I spent 13 minutes trying to edit.
by the time shit stopped spinning, my time to edit was gone.

THIRTEEN F'ING MINUTES.
I'm going to have some of my *prescription*.
thanks rm

(My son is a descendant of John Howland. We have his will.)

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:42:53 -0000

well, i see it was answered. this software is not helping with figuring out WTF somebody else posted and when.

it has taken over our subject in my opinion and that makes me MAD.
They should NOT HAVE LAUNCHED WITHOUT USER TESTING

this means to me: underfunded, unqualified. This may not be true, but
it brings back BAD MEMORIES of doing PR in SILVAL.

PLEASE are you brave enough to take this to Jakob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com)? If no, then
you are not ready.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:35:52 -0000

god i hate this shit (DQ)
hope CW and others who need this find it. I am sick of working for this start-up software company.

this term giallo was asked and answered ages ago, as with "giallo Perugia" which means
Perugia mystery...and may be related to our own "yellow" (exploitive) journalism. but to be simple, think of it as "mystery."

yes, giallo means yellow.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:30:09 -0000

(((OT: Susan Polk was a case about a nutty woman who killed her very nutty husband (she met him at 15 when she was referred to him for psychological counseling) in their home in Berkeley. Catherine Crier wrote a book about the case. Susan fired a bunch of attorneys and in the end acted as her own counsel. Pretty crazy case. She's now doing 25 to life.

The Phil Spector jury was hung due to a (my opinion) a control-freak jury foreman, who could not set aside his extreme religious beliefs ("DNA" Mormon -- back to days of Smith and Young) to convict the killer of an unmarried, 40-year old woman who went out at night. He found that he could not rule out suicide, "reasonable doubt" for his excuse which is just crazy (I think he had a revelation that to be her meant you would want someone to kill you). That would be my calmest possible way to describe what went wrong with that jury. Nothing should be ruled out in the case of Phil Spector and his GOOD FRIEND mafia attorney Bruce Cutler. Nothing,
The dish can be had at PS's former assistant Michelle Blaine's blog (she is fearless), at
http://mcontrolblogs.blogspot.com/
it's a long story, but she HATES PS and she HATES his wife Rachelle "Chelle" and goes right up to the line. Dominick is just great. It was fun to hear his asides. He swears a lot; he's friendly with Michelle of the blog and with Michelle Phillips (ma's and pa's) another person Phil threatened with a gun, she told us all about it.)))

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:15:14 -0000

Good luck, Fran. Hope it goes easy and is comfortable.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:48:27 -0000

when i hit "reply" it switches to hide, the box comes up, then everything disappears and i hit refresh.

((s'ite: sure, if kerm had the equipment. i was there that day. i'm going to put my lana's last limo ride picture show up at the blog. send me email. i'm going to add spector category and maybe put up my f*trial riend's* hilarious/dark story about arranging for susan polk to call into montel's show which turned out to be so psycho that montel cut the taping.))

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:28:19 -0000

thanks s'ite for kerm's cell map.
yeah. kermit could have retired on fees for services to the scott peterson case. there was a guy who was sneaky, got around, had five cellphones, sold *fertilizer* chemicals of value to the san joaquin valley meth labs. it was great to be in court to hear those phone calls COLD -- no little media buzz slipped out.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:15:24 -0000

kermit might BE perugia LE

Fran: grazie xo

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:12:48 -0000

Seattlelite: do you have a copy/link to Kermie's cellphone map to post so I can move it to blog and for us to see here?
Best.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:10:04 -0000

I'm finding that i miss a bunch of posts unless i go way back every so often and look at the threaded after the flat to make some sense of this.

STEVE dearie with 785 posts in 4 days (thanks to changes mostlikely) you are not exactly resting your limbs. be safe, don't push it, you know that we are perfectly able to slug it out to a conclusion.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:05:20 -0000

KERMIT: AWESOME
i like your commentary--that's what triggers thinking, revising, and fitting the pieces together.

on your comment about the noise of the perpetrators...i totally agree, and recall an early report (will find in my pile of 100 docs printed out for Dr. ForPsy) was that it was the sounds of *loud arguing* that came from the House of Horrors at 2 a.m. or so.

I feel like I am learning my way around Perugia a little bit.
Thanks so much for the mini-trip to Italy. Goes onto the blog, si?

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:43:13 -0000

the RG DNA on the bra in news reports. it's there, everywhere in UK and It. . the dna is near the clasp of the bloody bra. I'll put it up here next time i see it. we need to learn key words like bra and bloody.
yeah! kermie: hi. we need damian, squiggle, deepen, luke...& others are missing. i know i blew them away wtih the projection of the blog, but it's now set to private in honor of their protests.

kerm: i want to put up the pix you sent and have put up your catalog of links (in English) on some of the key developments. ca94306@gmail.com, anybody can see--i trying to build a catalog of selected stuff for referral--just email me for the key to enter. it's got a long way to go. i'm thinking of interspersing italian art history lessons.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:37:54 -0000

yup and i confessed it to my adult son (with another sleezier tech confession) since we LIVE IN A PANOPTICON (as foucault) and we have NO PRIVACY which is how i defend guilty until proven innocent. bought gas? have you flown? do you have a cell phone? that's why no matter how curmudginly or peevish CW gets, I try to be nice since i appreciate knowing to take out the battery and put it by the tv if i am up to no good. scott peterson taught us that if you call the cell Operator, and then they connect you to the number, they can't find who you called. It's all just O.

I hope you find this and that i am not messing everything up and that i am not construed as a big fan of disCUSS. (hi daniel)

now, raise your hand if you've had your bank accts closed by HomeSic on accout of no record (they could find, haha) of an earth addy for me.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:15:06 -0000

who knows...?

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:59:45 -0000

she's far far from innocent, loz. you know that she is the connector. you make good points. she needs a good lawyer--her lawyer should have thought of your points.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:52:47 -0000

You are stunning belle. Love the pic.
Yes. All translations are very much appreciated.
I keep a list of useful phrases to use on my next trip (spring i hope)
here's one middie taught us:
"belle,
canna=joint
spinello=little joint
ciao
Middie"

world peace through slang

(you saw my reply to your post, yeah?)
there should be points-a-plenty piling up on this one

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:43:13 -0000

I have a prescription, hundreds of *dispensaries* in california. it's like shopping in the produce dept--brands, sales, specials, ratings.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

xin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:40:57 -0000

squiggle:
we need you
on this crime

you've helped so much with the site tricks, but we need you on the crime, so set the software
trouble-shooter expert inside your cubicle (!), and come back to help analyze the info on the crime.

recover and return please.