Oh, sorry for not making myself clear! I thought I’d read somewhere that you could relate to Dylan, and have experienced similar issues? Perhaps I read and misinterpreted it! Apologies

Yes, I do relate and resonate with Dylan.  Mmm. and yeah, I guess you could kind of say ‘similar issues’ (tall, painfully shy, outcast, ostracized, bullied) but obviously there are nuanced differences in being a girl, of course.  But I think my struggles in reflection of Dylan’s struggles are very relatable struggles to so many of us out there that share a kind of idk, kindred commonality with him?  And I’m not quite sure what previous ask you’re elaborating on so I can’t exactly say if you were misinterpreting me at all?  I’m guessing it was maybe the one on ‘struggles’ ?  So, no need to apologize. 🙂  I’m just not sure whether I’m prepared to lay bear the specific issues I endured in school in a very public way. That would take guts. Besides of which, I don’t like the idea of people potentially reblogging my past pain. lol

Okay I went to buy Columbine: A True Crime Story and on Amazon, the prices seem a bit ridiculous to me (especially for a paperback book)… I mean, I’m still going to purchase it obviously, but I’m curious as to why the prices range from $30 something to $50 something. I purchased Sue’s book as well as Brooks’ book and it has been awhile ago but I don’t remember them costing that much…

Mm..I think that’s because C:ATCS has been out a long time and hasn’t had any revised versions with additional material like *coughs* Cullen’s book.  So, Jeff Kass’ book is probably not being reprinted much, if at all, and so the price goes up as it becomes rarer.  I bought my copy in 2012 and the price was decent.  I would say that over time, the book price will continue to escalate if it becomes harder to find. Pity too: it’s one of the best, most unbiased, book out there on the case.

Yeah I know he was the other Eric 😂 But in the video we can see Dylan enjoying the music so good, so passionate. I’m just asking if you think they probably can sing when they were alive.

Alrighty, just making sure because a lot of people are still under the impression that Eric is sitting in the backseat filming despite that it sounds nothing like him whatsoever…lol  Yeah, I feel as though Dylan was very innately musical and very attuned to rhythm, tempo and ‘beats’ (he was a drummer after all).  Like, I think he was jamming contantly and  he actually did mention himself in his writings that music ran like a constant buzz in his head. The boy had great bellowing vocal projection that we know for certain and he was pretty dang good at two second goof singing with his friend Nate. I do think he could carry a tune while singing in private but he would never be one to voluntarily sing in choir class at school or be lead vocals in a band or something.  Here’s how I see him singing.   

Eric singing? I tend to think he’d feel the same way about it as he did dancing. He was too insecure and not comfortable enough with himself to ever risk it around others.  Maybe half singing exaggerated brutal Rammstein in private to himself or while in the car with close friends.  Other than that, singing? nope.

jesus was it so hard to link something? all they asked was for a link they didnt ask you for anything special?

Jesus, ya know, it is. Why is it so hard to read the blog a page or two down or search for it themselves? Why is it my job to be your personal google service? Well, it’s not. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that it’s one little thing to look up for someone – but if I do that for one person that comes on late in the convo, the next thing you know everyone else expects the same thing. I just cleaned my inbox and I do not need more of these, tbh.

I loved listening to Sue’s reading of AMR. I have a hard copy too. There’s a lot of emotion in many of her reading and if I remember correctly when she reads the “maybe going NBK, GAWD with Eric” is really a gem, maybe I’m misremembering.

Oh yeah, Sue’s inflection is great while she’s reading her own stuff. And her imitating her incredulous sounding son with the “NBK with Eric is the way to break free (gawd..)”. It was worth it just to hear her say “scrunched” as in “I scrunched the two together” regarding celebrating Passover and Easter.  lol  She sounds so much like my own mom who was also from the Midwest. Classy lady like her too. It’s kind of hard to describe but she gives me warm fuzzies in a sense of connected familiarity. 🙂 ❤

Hello! I have a quick and probably dumb question for you. There were AR-15s in 2002, right? I’m planning on writing a fiction story thingy about a school shooting and I was thinking of an AR-15 being the weapon used. I just don’t know what models or whatever were around in that time so do you know? I want to get my facts as accurate as possible to make for a good read. 😊

Anyone that plans to write a story or book needs to research first so the story is accurate.  So, buckle down, dude, you’ve got some research poking around to do on Google.  No can do for you.  P.S. It’s a pretty simple search too – so like, no one give away the answer. 😉

Hey! I was just reading the notes that Eric and Kristi Epling exchanged with each other weeks before the shooting. Do you think Kristi felt like she missed something after the massacre? Eric made quite a few hints about guns and killing people. This has always interested me.

I think everything he said and wrote to her added up in retrospect. Before, she took what he said with a grain of salt and chalked it up to him just blowing off steam.  Most friends and family made that mistake before It happened.  No one could’ve imagined that their intent was deadly serious (even in jokes) and that they’d make good on it.

Would Dylan’s relationship with his dad have improved with age/time or would he have continued to go through the motions in order to please his father?

Yes, I think it would’ve improved with time –  once Dylan grew out of angry, rebellious, teenage phase and moved out of the house and was on his own.  What he was going through with his dad was typical growing pain stuff that fathers and ‘young men’ go through as they break apart and become ‘their own man’ so to speak. The two were very much a like in personality, too much a mirror in fact, and so Dylan’s disconnection with his father was simply a right of passage to become his own identity.