Not a problem. 🙂 Dylan was in a gifted program in elementary school and by middle school on up, his grades began to wane due to a combination of factors including the onset of his depression. His grades were B- and C+ and sometimes declined in the D range in High School though he was taking some AP courses which balanced it out. Eric’s grades stayed within the A – B+ range. His motivation to keep the grades up would’ve been in part due to his parent’s high expectations. The two were smart but the standard curriculum probably didn’t creatively engage them a whole hell of a lot to feel inspired about the future.

Dylan is beyond the human construct of ‘age’. All spirit is ageless and multi-dimensional, existing in that ‘timeless, spaceless place of pure happiness’ which he intuitively made reference to the spirit realm in his writings. Also answered before here.

They planned a fantasy, yes, and naively so. The school, and by extension, the world was lucky that their fantasy plans produced duds for bombs instead of a successfully devastating detonation. Their failure to test the propane bombs, their cockiness that they’d simply just blow on queue at their ETA, was our luck because so many lives were spared in comparison to what actually happened. Still, lives were lost.. There was a myriad of reality based scenarios that could’ve befallen them at every turn that would’ve majorly fucked up the entire thing for themselves in a big way. If they’d been horrifically maimed in the explosion and still breathing or if they’d been cornered, shot in the leg and put out of commission and then taken into custody there would’ve spent the rest of their lives in misery and guilt, having their noses perpetually rubbed in what an utterly stupid idea they’d deluded themselves into attempting. I guess the kind of ‘luck’ we’re talking about here is relative and either is a grim outcome in it’s own way.

They do, yeah, but I also see Uncle Dylan in their features too. Big time. 😊😕

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Don’t apologize for your wonderfully dramatic and heartfelt sentiment. I’m very touched by your words. It totally made my day when I read your message. 🙂  
I have no intention of deactivating E-C at this particular point in time.  Actually, I don’t really see a reason to do so even if I decide to stop blogging here in having drifted on past what was needed for me to do here for Dylan in this existence. 🙂   The content can remain up as a kind of message-in-a- bottle Dylan memorial of sorts for those passing through who stumble here and come away with some awareness of who Dylan was in the entirety of his life.  That would be lovely, actually.  Well, we can all hope that Tumblr doesn’t disappear into the footprints of other old and passe social media blogs the likes of MySpace.  Thank you again for having such deep feelings for this blog and I hope that you and others remember it fondly when you reach age 50 and beyond. haha.   Very gratifying and sweet.  Blessings to you! 💖

Absolutely.  It’s a very strange holiday family photo in that there is not a togetherness or unity in their grouping. The dynamics are of two separate units, each dressed similarly – Sue/Byron (in casual jeans and a button down shirt) and Dylan/Tom (traditional, conservative cream colored sweaters, proper dress pants).  Not sure if this an unspoken, telling sort of between-the-lines- sort of symbolism about the Klebolds as a family but it certainly feels that way yes.  One can say that it’s certainly an unconventional sort of family group photo and there is an awkwardness about it.  Other than Sue, their smiles are even vague. Part of it too may be Byron’s age and giving off that vibe of rebellious independence and not wanting to appear embracing his parents and kid brother.  On the other hand, his parents seem to be fine separated from one another two.  They are like opposing bookends.  It is just..odd.   I know this is just one photo and there may be others taken during that photo shoot where they’re close together but I just tend to get the vibe that there was something off about Sue and Tom as a couple even back then..  Once Dylan did what he’d done,his parent’s relationship slowly began to unravel and erode as they realized how different the two really were from one another.  Certainly, Tom’s authoritative hand clamped over young Dylan’s shoulder speaks volumes as to how he see his youngest son as a hopeful prize, a future successor in his footsteps.  He sees his young son as himself.  There is something intimidating, arrogant and stern about Tom’s demeanor too.

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Hmm, only one?  Gotta say, just one question is tough because there’s always an infinince number for Mr. Enigmatic. 😉    Hmm..well, one that comes to mind off hand at the moment in relation to the timely release of Sue’s book:

Why did you voluntarily make a point of showing mom your flask – that she never even knew you owned in the first place – and to let her know she could trust you?   

Marla is the only one that mentioned Dylan asking her to prom.  But that’s not really the main reason why people tend to consider Marla as a top contender. I’d say it has more to do with the acrostic love poem Dylan wrote.   In any case, Marla cannot be the girl Dylan intended his suicide-love letter to – which he wrote near the end – for the simple fact that Marla and Dylan knew one another already.  In the letter, Dylan is letting on to this girl who he is and hoping it might spark her memory.  Furthermore, Sue mentions that the girl he was writing to did not know him at all  (though she has never met/spoken to the girl).   So, for now, at this point in time, that girl will remain a mystery. 🙂 

Not scary, beautiful in that reflection. 🙂

You make a very valid point and this is something I’ve thought of myself rather often. The bombs failing to detonate with a lethal enough deadly blast so that there are still quite a few left injured in various degrees and not so many ending up as casualities.  Most especially, in taking the risks they did getting so close to their bombs, Eric and Dylan could’ve easily been one of those badly injured with 2nd and 3rd degree burns covering their body yet remaining still very much alive and suffering in great pain as they’re taken into custody.  It’s a highly plausible failed outcome and the two were apparently too  idealistic about how they fantasized how it would all go down. They assumed they’d be maiming others not accidentally themselves by way of flames licking out from a partially detonated bomb blast.  They felt certain that two scenarios would happen: that they’d be lethally taken out either by cops firing at them or by suicide at their own hand.  They also never considered that police might shoot to maim them as in shoot their ankles, legs or dominant arm so they couldn’t flee nor shoot back. The boys would’ve been rendered helpless, collected, handcuffed and arrested. We are lucky in that not only were their bombs were a fail but they themselves are lucky that the bombs were not a partial major blast while the two were tossing pipe bombs at the planted propane bombs in the Commons. The two were so close to their huge bombs that that in itself was tempting suicide, a flirtation with death.  Dylan saunters up and lazily throws a pipe bomb at the bombs a mere 15 feet away.  Eric thinks the bomb is about to blow so almost casually sprints away from it.  Realistically though, had the bombs gone off, those two could’ve sustained horrendously bad injuries yet still very much alive and breathing in horrible agony – just as much as they could’ve been killed instantly by the blast.  The two were naive in believing that their plan was not only solid but also fail proof. They assumed they would have some sort of protected immunity while taking revenge on others and harming and/or killing them until they were ready to allow themselves to be taken out fatally either by the authorities’ hand or their own. 

Certainly. 🙂 The full list of music referenced by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

Mm.. I’m sure a couple of the chicks in the TCM probably knew of  KMFDM and liked them a bit along with Rammstein.   But as for Robyn, Devon or Alyssa or Kim liking the group, I’d say probably not.  

How is it ‘blaming Eric’ to say his laugh sounds like a chipmunk?   Especially when it does.  His laugh makes me laugh as does Dylan’s.  

That’s a bit of a stretch don’t you think?   😉    

*bad ass chipmunk laughs abound* 

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His being skinny/scrawny was more bothersome to him than his height. Otoh, Eric Veik and Mike Vendegnia were about as tall as Eric so he wasn’t completely alone with being a shorter dude.

And hell, why even stop at ‘when it came to that’?

I suppose I’ll take that as an odd compliment. 😏

I’m completely cool with it. Most of it amuses but occasionally there some that are fairly well written and creative stuff. It’s a good ahem..expressive outlet for people in this community. 😏