Month: November 2015

Just read something I hadn’t seen before. Did Dylan really offer cookies to people to start conversations, because he was too shy to start a conversation? If so, that is so truly sweet, and heartbreaking. Makes me want to smile and cry at the same time. If he ever did this, I sure hope it resulted in the convos he was wishing to have. Can you imagine?

He did offer his friends and a few lucky classmates that were nice to him cookies from his Chips O’ Hoy bag. But he wasn’t offering them necessarily as conversation starters. He was just simply being a nice person, a friendly dude sharing cookies over a boring lesson with those nearby he liked. Offering cookies are instant, silent friend makers. 💗 🍪 See Cookie Time.

How do you think Dylan would be if his girlfriend had good morals and didn’t smoke, drink, do drugs or party? And would always try to talk him out of doing those stuff?

I think he’d respect for her strong sense of individuality and personal choices and morals. While he might curb his behavior around her, I don’t think he’d personally want to change his likes just to suit her and conform to her standards. I think he’d get kind of resentful as if could never live up to her own personal expectations.  As a friend, sure, he could appreciate boundaries and respect them.  For example, Devon said Dylan knew she was straight edged so because of that fact, he didn’t do anything around her that she was not comfortable with in his company. However, a girlfriend is a bit different because the amount of time and intimacy involved. If their values were that extremely different there could, likely would, ultimately be some tensions. His girl would need to be easy-going, just enough, so they could chill together on the weekends, and go to a party,  have a few drinks and enjoy mutually doing those types of things – or, to let him smoke if that’s what he chooses to do as an individual.  Though, if he was head over heels for her and they were clicking really well with everything else as far as likes and such except his smoking, I could see her rubbing off on him with gentle, non-judgmental nudges of encouragement as to why he might want to consider quitting his habit  And he might just find himself wanting to actually do just that for his girl  because he feels she genuinely cares about him and has his best interest at heart.  In any case, his girl would need to be casual enough, without rigid high standards yet open, sincere and warm hearted. The love between them should be mutually accepting without very little if any need to make drastic changes between the two of them.  So the short of it is, good morals, sure but having high standards that she’s likely to impose on him, no, not so much.  That’d be potentially problematic from the get-go.  Dylan would always want to please his girl but he wouldn’t want to compromise himself so much that he wasn’t having any personal enjoyment.

Do you thing that if Dylan and his love/crush went out he would’ve backed out of nbk?

It depends on how much the date actually lived up to his fantasy expectations.  If the date blew him away and he wanted to see and experience more of her than I think NBK would become problematic.  He’d start to become conflicted at that point.  The thing is, the dating would have to be good, they’d have to click and he’d need to feel that sense of happiness, that life is worth living. So, all of those factors would need to be perfectly aligned.  If so, then yes, that might’ve been the catalyst that would’ve held back NBK from happening and he would’ve survived the entire school year up to graduation. 

How do you think Dylan would react if he was chatting online with a crush from school & she said “Can I tell you something?” & he got nervous because she was typing a long time, and it ended up being a looong confession about her BIG crush on him? :3

His heart beat would speed up a bit when he wasn’t seeing a reply back from her – though he could see the AIM typing indicator showing she was in the middle of texting him something. He’d assume that the utility froze on him or she got bored and ditched him, leaving him there to wallow in abandoned despair. The moment her message popped up on the screen and his eyes began to scan her very lengthy paragraph, he let out a long-held exhaled breath. In that moment, it would be as if Dylan took the biggest hit of the best weed he’d ever partaken in his entire life, an incredible sense of ecstacy and euphoria washing over him from head to toe. A broad smile would slowly spread across his face in that small moment of sheer and utter bliss. ❤

What’s the locker hacking incident?

In October ‘97, one student reported to the CHS dean that a
couple of items were missing from his locker, including a camera. Another
student said he got a threatening note in the locker warning him to back off
Devon Adams. I seem to recall that the incident apparently had something to do
with exacting revenge on Devon’s ex-boyfriend.  The dean, Peter Horvath, described Eric and Dylan as “brilliant”
but ended up suspending them along with Devon and her boyfriend, Zack Heckler, on Oct 2nd, for hacking into the school’s  computer system to get locker
combinations.  Zack, considered the
mastermind, got five days,  as did Dylan (according to his Diversion file), and Eric got three days’ worth.   Devon’s defense of them was that they did it because Columbine did
not challenge them. “Because we were all just bored.  When you get bored, you act out.”

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In Dylan’s diversion file, Sue writes her version of the locker combination hacking.  (She incorrectly has Fall ‘98 – it was ‘97 as this file was written up March ‘98).  Then we have Dylan’s veeeery concise version of events. “Hacking & possessing important documents”  Plus the Diversion representative jotting down that his suspension was for 5 days in 10-97. 

VooDooM   The fine HaXoR

Note that Dyl had plans for a t-shirt with his and Zack’s hacker nick handles:

^o=-KiBBz-=E

  <<-VoDkA->>

Another instance of these nick signatures in a alignment is here in which authorities inconsistently chose to redact Zack’s handle name for some ridiculous reason. There is apparently no t-shirt design for REB with VoDkA in any of his brainstorming doodles. At least, that we know of any way.   To me, this underscores Dylan’s preferences for and strong identification with Zack.

Btw, Dylan was not at all big on emailing friends.  He ignored e-mails pretty much as evinced in Nate Dykeman’s comments that he and Dylan never had email exchanges.  Only Eric used email with friends.  Dylan was more into ICQ, instant messaging and chat rooms.

everlasting-contrast:

Deimos (Dread) and Phobos (Fear)

aka Calvin and Hobbes 

Classic Reblog of the Frick n’ Frack kind.  

In 2007, Brooks Brown provided his own assessment in his own distinct style and voice, of the website Lear’s Shadow generally, and “Calvin and Eric, Dylan and Hobbes” in particular: 

“Lear’s Shadow is a site about Eric and Dylan as humans – and it uses Calvin and Hobbes, the brilliant comic , to convey ideas. It’s fucking brilliant. The difficulty of talking about Eric and Dylan as themselves is that nobody really knew them well. A few close friends, sure – but being teenagers at the time none of us had a fantastic vocabulary … It’s damn hard to convey thoughts easily. But most everyone grew up with Calvin and Hobbes, and loved it for more than a simple laugh – we loved Calvin and his alter-ego because they were extremely intelligent. … but still had the wonderment many of us lost as children . If I talk about Calvin, you guys remember him. Hobbes too. Eric and Dylan, not so much. So, this site goes into depth comparing Eric and Dylan to Calvin and Hobbes in order to teach and show who Eric and Dylan really were. And from someone who was close friends with them, this guy’s gotten it damn close”

I found this book a very unique approach covering metaphorical Columbine with all the strange and uncanny symbolism linked to it. Worth the read, I do recommend checking it out here:    

Lear’s Shadow The strangeness of Columbine, an interpretation

[Amazon Kindle]

Related posts with edited excerpts from the website:
[Part 1]  [Part 2 (coming soon]  [Part 3]

What year do you think Devon and Dylan started being best friends? As we see in July-August 1997 he flat out hates her, but a year later in the summer of ’98 they were best friends. Dylan went to her birthday party. When do you think he opened up to her, and they become friends?? Dylan, Zack, Eric, and Devon all got suspended in October 1997 for the locker hacker incident, so was Dylan already good friends with Devon by Fall ’97?

In the summer of 1997, Dylan met Devon Adams through friends she had at BlackJack. Devon, two years younger, would be entering Columbine as a freshman. Dylan would’ve been 15 ½ and Devon would’ve just turned 15 in July ‘97. By that fall, when Devon started Columbine, she was friendly enough with Eric and Dylan to have breakfast and lunch with them. So, based on that, I’d say Dylan only knew her a very short time in the summer of ‘97 from June to part of July when she’d begun to date Zack. He was pissed at Devon for stealing his best friend Zack away but he didn’t hate her to the point of not talking to her or anything like that. He did blow off steam in his journal with some black humor “who I wouldn’t mind killing” but of course everyone does private shit like that in their journals.
I’d say as he got to know her over the months that they were attending Columbine, he hung out with her more because wherever Zack was Devon would be there too as a couple. So, yes, they would’ve become closer more familiar friends from August, when school started, up to around the locker hacking incident they all got in trouble for which took place early October ‘97. By, July of ‘98, Devon would’ve considered Dylan a close enough friend to invite to her 16th birthday party.

On one page of the 11K, a Columbine student wrote in their police report that members of the Trench Coat Mafia practiced self-injury using knives, and another Columbine student who was interviewed by the media, while on camera, stated that he witnessed a TCM member slice his arm with a razor blade during class. I have tried to find further information about who they were, but the names were never mentioned. (I always suspected Chris Morris was involved with that, but I was never sure).

I’d like to see that section of the 11K. Can you link me? Hm, yeah, sounds a bit like Chris Morris and/or Brian Sargent. There was knife brandishing and also sword play at one another’s homes. So, the fascination was there, and I would not doubt that cutting was involved for a fair few of ‘em that were pissed off like possibly Robert Perry.