His score of 46 is from the Marine Staff Sergeant’s account in the Harris Volumes 1 & 2, ‘Marines’ section [010087] of the 11K.

Eric took the initial screening test given to all recruits and scored a 46. According to Staff Sergeant Gonzales, this is an average score. 

Thank you very much! 🙂 

I’d seen the trailer for it a while back and I most definitely plan to watch
We Are Columbine.   

I’m really pleased that some of these students, most especially the woman that directed this film, feel that enough time and distance has past from the tragedy and they now feel a need to come forward and talk about their experiences.  It should be a cathartic healing time for many of these thirty something students that are ready to reflect on their collective tragedy.  If only most LIttletonites would also own their town’s tragedy and want to acknowledge and discuss it to for greater understanding and healing. Instead, I find, the community as a whole still prefers to forget about it and pretend it never happened.

hey! backatcha’  Mm..I think his sketches including a poison pouch attached to his leg was a fantasized backup plan in case he ran out of ammunition and got cornered somehow. He was probably considering making his own poison from the Anarchist or Jolly Roger’s Cookbook perhaps considering concocting a homemade batch of nicotine or cyanide poisoning.  In any case, he scrapped that alternative suicide ‘Plan B’. It’d be risky and not full proof to ensure his death. He did, however, place “a large calibre (9 mm), copper-jacketed bullet in his right boot.”.  In reality, this wouldn’t at all have been of use in any practical way seeing as it was a stray bullet not installed in a clip. Although, perhaps he meant to install it into one. But I tend to think it seems to have been a more of a romantic aesthetic for him, a kind of perverse lucky piece to add to his NBK uniform more than anything else.But in the end, I feel as though Dylan planned to go out by a bullet by a cops hand or his own. Fast acting poison was a bit of a gamble and a fuss to make.  Though, I think you’re right in that his concept for having an arsenal of suicide options at his disposal -including a poison option on his being –  was all part of a kind of ‘romantic’ fantasy ideation aesthetic..

It was electrifying.. quite literally  😉  Just a very surreal and unforgettable experience being in the space it all went down and walking the same areas they’d been.but also a few places that were a mystery to me before which I’ve now laid eyes on..

I’ve been going through some of the other photos and video footage from my trip last summer,  and I hope to post some more.  I’m thinking either the computer lab or the tech (video production) lab. Hmm.. Haven’t decided which just yet. lol

Yes, Rachel had acquired a cigarette habit in real life and no,  it wasn’t just for her theater work.  Smoking kinda became a big thing for teens in the nineties and even Rachel wasn’t exempt from acquiring this vice. I’m sure many of her friends were doing it and so it becomes a sort of social type habit which tends to calm the nerves while attending school and dealing with a variety of stressors.  Ironically, her good friend (and prom date) Nick Baumgart persuaded her to quit which, unfortunately, is why she was at the wrong place/ wrong time and having her lunch just outside the southwest entrance on 4/20 rather than her usual ritual of being at the smoker’s pit during A lunch.

To my knowledge this is the only version – which has a partial censor on it. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense either because the numerous times Dylan says ‘Fuck” (lol)  is not censored yet other tiny parts of his practice rant are.

Again, if you look behind Chris Morris during his rant, you can see the Exit sign and the cafeteria side door entrance as discussed in this post.

Dylan saw Zack as his best friend and he felt Zack ‘got him’ and appreciated him more than any other friend had in his life. Just like Dylan, Zack also experienced depressive tendencies and the two were computer tech inclined. Once Zack got a girlfriend, things began to improve in his life as he now had someone close that he loved, who was there for him, supported and helped him through some rough patches. Dylan was envious of Zack’s good fortune and likely felt that if he too had a girlfriend, he would also have a shot at happiness. It stung for Dylan to feel like he lost having his best friend full time to a girl who was able to make Zack happier. He was grieving the absence of having his friend around all the time to  hang out with, and he was jealous and resentful of the good fortune that Zack landed. While Nate was Dylan’s good friend, he wasn’t his best friend. Nate was out going and not depressive. They were opposite personalities and Dylan didn’t relate in the way he did with Zack.  Plus, Nate also got a girl friend a couple of years after Zack paired off with Devon.  Dylan had already gone through major personal trauma the first time when he felt Zack had abandoned him for a girlfriend.   

“At work, Harris could be a cut up, talking in funny voices and telling jokes. At school, he could be an inspired student and writer, hurling his hand in the air to offer his take on Shakespeare.”   ‘What’s the meaning of a reading from Shakespeare?’ and Eric would know.“I just remember him as the kid in the corner with his hand up all the time.” Webb declined to comment. [Source]

“Harris even quotes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” “Good wombs hath borne bad sons,” he said.” (in the Basement Tapes) [Source]

“When we we read Shakespeare,” a girl in Klebold’s English class told the Denver Post, “he would always get the hidden meaning.”  [Source]  [Source] 🙂

Based on these quotes, you could simply say that Eric and Dylan grasped the gist of archaic Shakespearean English fairly easily and better than their peers who had a bit of trouble deciphering it.  

Probably a combination of the two. He ‘put on’ the amused, cocky and in-control sounding VoDkA voice to go with his dangerous, armed look but kept reverting back to sounding like his normal ol’ self plenty of times while casually conversing with Eric over the various ways they could try to make the bombs go off or his needing to reload or find more ammo.   When they made their grand entrance in the library, Dylan was all  bad ass, ‘Mars in Leo’ showmanship with the booming ‘Everybody get up now.. you’re all mine!’ voice. They’d been waiting for revenge fantasy moments like that for months and now they actually got to play at it. Dylan never said anything like this in entire life to anyone let alone a group of anyones’ cowering in fear under desks.  I’m sure it was a cathartic release and a power trip thrill.  It was but that tiny 15 minutes of fame where Dylan (with Eric) could relish how he must look and sound to others feeling immensely powerful, and at the top of the food chain as their peers coward under them  I think Dylan enjoyed and dug the aspects of psychological terror and coming across as a fearful, cool, cavalier threat  to others much more than actually the sport of killing people.So, I’m sure there were times he tried to ‘get into character’ and play up his voice in moments. During the massacre, there is this full-on duality in Dylan rising to the occasion to ‘have fun!’ to portray, harness and embody all the nasty, intimidatingly scary aspect of himself (that he suppressed for so many years) and then in the next moment, suddenly he finds himself turning back into a pumpkin at the stroke of midnight, reduced back into his “normal”, old self  mode as he in the midst of confronting jock, Evan Todd in the library.  He’s playing this vigilante character he envisions himself to be with a jock but he can’t quite..maintain it in having a verbal exchange with Todd.  Dylan becomes a drama king, yelling and pointing a gun at Todd, laying on thick the threat that he might kill him but then seems to lose his nerve when the opportunity is golden to kill him. Instead, he prefers the psych terror and letting Todd go rather than finishing him off.   I’ve digressed a bit here, huh?  😉  .But to answer your question: I think his voice was half his normal self and the other, at times, his idea of badassery with a lot of snickering, sneering and laughing like it was one big death day party.

No, we don’t know if that’s true as it hasn’t been confirmed by enough people other than Rachel’s mom Beth Nimmo making the claim. However, I’m hoping to get it confirmed by the Browns – that is.. if/when Randy’s book comes out allegedly slated for next year.  Beth also stated that Judy Brown corroborated with her on the “Dylan had a crush on Rachel” claim..so hopefully we’ll get verification from Judy by way of her husband’s book.