Blogger, video-game designer, and supporter of BigShinyThing dead at 40.
We were shocked yesterday to hear from our friend Stephen, of the death (apparently suicide) of blogger and video-game author Theresa Duncan, and the disappearance of her partner Jeremy Blake.
Duncan was known and respected for her work in the late 90s designing girl-friendly video games, and more recently for her witty and opinionated culture blog The Wit of the Staircase. Blake is (was?) an animator and artist. Both included a passion for perfumes amongst their wide-ranging interests.
Theresa was an early supporter of BigShinyThing, and her recognition meant a lot to us back then and since. A proposed interview sadly never happened and now never will. Our thoughts and condolences to her family and to Blake’s.
Perhaps aptly, what has been made public of her death and Blake’s disappearance is shaping up as a modern blogosphere noir. Read the news on the New York Times, and some of the mythmaking and speculation here.
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Blogosphere Noir?
I hope not. This young life lost this sad, sad way should not be fodder for anyone’s entertainment.
Rest in peace - i pray that, while she couldn’t seem to find peace here in this world, that it embraces her in the next.