*siiiiiiiiigh* I just had a very heated HOUR long debate/argument with some guy I’m friends with on FB, about whether or not Dylan and Eric (mostly Dylan) were on drugs or not when he/they committed the shootings/died…I linked him to the autopsy reports that I got from a link on your very own blog but now he has to “do his own research” and find said document on “100 other sites to confirm it.” It’s gonna be a looong day lol I should of never said anything cuz now he’s never gonna let it go :/

Oh, those are always so much fun. lol.  Well, he’s going to come up short on his own research where Dylan is concerned because as you correctly informed him, Dylan indeed had no psychotropic drugs present in his system via the toxicology report.  The autopsy reports you gave your friend should suffice..but I’m guessing that he’s going off of one of many conspiracy theory websites he read about it on and has the misinformation stuck in his head.  The official autopsy reports are pretty much ‘it’ for conclusive ‘research’ information.  Perhaps he’s confused the two boys and assumed they were both on drugs since Eric had lower mid-range therapeutic amounts of Luvox present in his system which is a SSRI anti-depressant that was prescribed by his therapist. See here and here.   Also, neither boys had weed, hard drugs or alcohol in their systems. You may want to link him these one-stop-shop sites: here and here that will greatly speed up his own research. 😉 

Dylan moved into Byron’s bedroom when Byron moved out. Then Dylan’s old room became a guest room that his friends stayed in. Could it have been Dylan’s “first” room, which is well established as a guest room, that Andrew Solomon stayed in? We know that that is already a guest room and it was Dylan’s room at one time.

Yes, the guest room that Andrew Solomon stayed in while interviewing the Klebolds for his book “Far From the Tree” was, in fact, Dylan’s second bedroom.  Byron’s old bedroom.

If you were to view the basement tapes, are you afraid it would change your perception of Dylan?

It would certainly enhance my perception of him as in revealing that ‘other side’ to him playing a naughty drama king rather than the shy, quiet and ‘nice’ Dylan which he was a large percentage of his daily life. Granted, a lot of what he was doing was for show and not the ‘real’ him. He was laying it in on thick for his audience via the camera lens and talking big playing off of Eric to please his friend jacking up the hate big time.   Yes, of course, it would change my perception in that I would visually see and hear more facets to Dylan but by the same token, it wasn’t an accurate portrayal of Dylan or Eric’s personality any more than their play-acting in video productions. Dylan was being that puffer fish all blown up safely in Eric’s basement bedroom.  The BTs were the one-dimensional soapbox hate rants of VoDkA and REB condensed on videotape and packaged for the world post-mortem.

The fact that, at one point, Dylan reacts to Eric with ‘jesus you’re on a roll’ to me means that Dylan is half an audience critiquing how well his friend is outdoing him at playing unrepented big and nasty. So, then he has to chime in with something far worse…

This blog is absolutely amazing and so eloquent and informative! I follow it closely because it contains a wealth of information. I am currently writing a story about Columbine, titled “Of Beasts, Angels and Madmen” (the title was inspired by the Dylan Thomas poem) and your work is so helpful to me in writing my story, which is now about halfway complete. Keep up the good work and God bless💜

That’s awesome!  It pleases me to hear this and thank you very much. 🙂 Please feel free to share your story when it’s finished. I’d be curious to see what you put together. And I love your title..very apropos. ❤

Did Dylan’s mom ever have to remind him to do his homework

I tend to doubt it.  I think his parents trusted that he’d be self-sufficient and manage his homework all on his own. And for the most part, he did manage even with all the personal problems he was dealing with, his jam-packed daily schedule combined with sleep deprivation.  I don’t think he kept a homework schedule and set aside time daily to work diligent on assignments after school as Eric was likely more apt to do.  I think Dylan would slack off and let a lot of things slide to the last minute. He’d then have to scramble to catch up all at once right before it was all due.  Robyn had to help him get caught up on the AP Calc.  It was a like a self-competition cramming at the very last minute to juggle and complete homework each at various stages of completion, and for him as a gifted kid, that was probably the only way to create a ‘challenge’ with the plodding school work offered at CHS.

Did Dylan get sick

Contrary to popular belief, Dylan was not an immortal god but an actual, real, human boy that yes, got sick occasionally.  *gasps*

Dylan came home from school on his way to work & I fixed him a snack. He felt lousy, thinks he’s getting a cold or worse. He picked out a yearbook picture before going to work. Tom got home late and I made a nice little dinner. Dylan came home and joined us before going out. [8/28/98]

Hello, I was thinking and I was wondering what the last look Dylan gave the girl I wanted was going to be the last time I would see her and I guess it must have been Monday, since everything would be a fuss on Tuesday and it is likely that you will not even cross the road, and also believe that he saw it on the day of the massacre as one of the people who ran down the aisles or who were under the tables

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eh, come again?  This looks like someone used Google translator and the syntax reads like scrambled eggs. lol 

Didn’t Rachel’s mother meet with Sue Klebold? Is it possible that Sue read some of Dylan’s writings and told Rachel’s mother about Dylan’s crush?

Yes, the two mothers met months after the tragedy.  And no because Sue never mentions in any instances of her book about Dylan having a crush on Rachel, even if it was a tiny one for a short period of time. You would think that would be the opportune time to mention such a crush.  Sue only mentions that the girl that Dylan loved as mentioned in his writings was someone that did not know Dylan at all. 

I dont know if anyone ever asked this before but could you imagine expanding the whole E-C thing even more e.g. on YouTube..? I know you already have a yt channel but could you imagine doing content like CVA cuz that would be freakin cool

You wanna know what’s weird about this Q?  I was just reflecting about someone asking me a while ago as to whether I’d ever do a youtube channel similar to CVA and no sooner then I checked my inbox a mere fifteen minutes later, I got this^^ question.   …And bizarre stuff like that keep happening.  😉 

Honestly, though, I would just be a very awkward, bashful af, female version of Dylan on audio. Y’alls would be disappointed in me. hehe As an introvert, writing responses to Qs allows me the space to reflect, Intuit and find words in a quiet mind space.  Again, I’m really flattered that you and others have asked me this.  And, I would if I could …if I was capable?  🙂 but I don’t  think I’m cut out for that gregarious, extroverted medium as I’m too anxious and self-critical. I’d be stressing if I lived up to all of your expectations.  Trust me, it’s bad enough with how I perceive my own writing. Ack. lol