Yes, the Ever-lasting contrast. Since existence has known, the 'fight' between good & evil has continued. Obviously, this fight can never end. Good things turn bad, bad things become good. My fav. contrasting symbol, because it is so true & means so much – the battle between good & bad never ends… Here we ponder on the tragedy of Dylan Klebold.
I love how Dylan is drinking a Dr Pepper in this picture. (Suck it down, Dylan! Wait, that sounds bad…) This must have been circa 1988-1989, since the caption reads, “Dylan Klebold (left) and Brooks Brown, age eight, attend a meeting of the Cub Scouts.” (From Brooks’s book No Easy Answers.)
-ALL LAMERZ DIE! DK kicked off AOL – Robyn Anderson [10,631]
Dylan, ’90s computer geek that he was, disdainfully dabbled in amateur hacking using AoHella tool that greatly simplified ‘cracking’ AOL.
Dylan didn’t pay for an AOL account because AoHell had a fake account generator which would generate a new, fully functional AOL account for the user that lasted for about a month. This generator worked by exploiting the algorithm used by credit card companies known as the Luhn algorithm to dynamically generate apparently legitimate credit card numbers. The account would not be disabled until AOL first billed it (and discovered that the credit card was invalid). The generator could also generate fake addresses and phone numbers, resembling on their surface legitimate personal information. Amongst it’s arsenal of bad-ass hacking tools 😉 was Phishingwhich enabled hackers to steal passwords and credit card information through automated social engineering. The program would barrage random AOL users with instant messages like:
“Hi, this is AOL Customer Service. We’re running a security check and need to verify your account. Please enter your username and password to continue.”
A Punter (IM-Bomber) which would send an Instant Message containing HTML code to another user that would sign them off. Dylan explained to a student that he belonged to a group called PuNtErS & pRoGs. His favorite personally designed shirt was dark green with white lettering that read, AOL: WheRe KewLz HaXORz ArE – Translation: AOL: Where Cool Hackers Are. Explanation: It’s a joke because it’s easy to hack on AOL
A flooding script that would flood a chat room with ASCII art of an offensive nature, such as the finger or a toilet. An ‘artificial intelligence bot’, which had the ability to automatically respond to a message in a chatroom upon identification of keywords. (For example, a ‘profane language’ autoresponse was built into the program), and a Steve Case cloak, which allowed users to pose as AOL founder Steve Case in chat rooms.
Still need a reason why Dyl got kicked off AOL ? 😉
Hmm.. I would wager that Dyl would snicker that wicked little laugh of his (you know the one?) while flooding chat rooms with profanity and then smirked omnipotently, as he punted enough unsuspecting users off the system. After enough times of exercising those effortless AoL HaXoR skills of his, AOL punted him off a few times around for ToS abuse before permanently kicking his ass from that mainstream newbie-land of an ‘online community’. No great loss to him, just practice and play. Exploit and then move on to other more challenging things.
When Dyl told Robyn he got kicked off AOL, that was a proud boast to be sure. lol
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Adding a little addendum to this post on 12.9.17:
Various HaXoR progs Dylan messed around with: TOS (AOL Terms of Service)
AOBomer (v1 b3:) – ALL LAMERZ DIE!
Stormfront – TheENDisnear!
aka (StormFront’s TOSer: theENDisnear StormFront beta 4: second button 3 times then 3rd button twice, then hit the “i got this” button | TOSer: theENDisnear )
These AoL HaXor progs (programs) were found here and here. This Angelfire webpage is vintage 90s and probably the exact website Dylan went to have a bit of fun messing around on AoL with members with a variety of amateur progs to choose from.
http://stsim.com/mdc/hidpic Unfortunately, this site, whatever it was, no longer exists and even Wayback Machine provides very little clues if any.
Ah, I hope they’re long in a good kind of way and not just..long. lol Thanks for stopping by and confessing your love for my Dyl blog. Glad you like. 🙂 🙂
It’s lovely to hear you that you enjoy the E-C posts and also that you find yourself resonating with my Dyl answers as well. *blushes* Thank you so much! 🙂
Quirks: The idiosyncrasies of DBK
Triple Barred Cross Earring
Dylan’s left ear was pierced, and he usually wore a “triple cross” earring. A friend of Dylan’s in 2002 said that it was homemade, but it has also been heard that it was made in Shop class at school or that it was specially ordered from a company. He drew the triple cross numerous times, repeating the same design over and over in his writings and doodles.
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To Dylan, the triple barred cross symbolically represented the Ever-lasting Contrast – signifying the eternal battle of good and bad within himself, humanity and the world. The upright cross, the traditional christian style crucifix, representing the good, the pure, the light – adjoined to the inverted cross – representing the mirror opposite – the bad, the tainted, the dark. The union of polar opposites, the intersection of creative force and destructive force, positive and negative, joined as one. Dylan, himself, is represented as the large slashed bar that “cuts” across the middle of the two opposing crosses in constant internal conflict. The struggle of duality, of dark and light within himself, resonated deeply with Dylan.
I think Dylan was originally attracted by the two barred “Cross of Lorraine”. The symbol that was originally adopted by the Knights Templar and it’s form mirrors the teachings of Hermeticism and it’s occult axiom “As Above, So Below”. Marilyn Manson utilized the two barred symbol for his band post Columbine. I suspect that in the midst of a late night cutting session, Dylan discovered his own unique symbol from the original double barred cross. He cut a slash down the midsection of the double cross. You can see where he says “cut here” in his journal drawings and refers to the midsection as “me”. The symbol that Dylan arrived at on his own is actually known as a Salem’s Cross. I believe the earring was custom made to his exact specifications. It was the only earring he ever wore and religiously. It was so special to his being that he made sure to remove the earring, along with other personal items of significance, placing them in a small pile, before committing suicide.
”..my favorite contrasting symbol because it is so true & means so much.”
”..good things turn bad and bad things become good.”
Oh, the friendship between Dylan and Eric was good enough..in a bad sort of way. 😉 According to Dylan, he was ‘very good friends’ with Eric; Eric consider Dylan his ‘best friend’. Above and beyond that, you can think of it like the two were the best sort of business arrangement in a friendship because both of the two were committed to having revenge and getting even with the school. They talked about blowing up the school and they knew they both meant it unlike when they talked about it with other friends. They understood it was a one -way mission, ending with their deaths, whether that’d be suicide by cop or by their own hand, and they were vested in their secret plan. Zach joined in on the regular ‘hate school/hate the jocks’ jokes but he wasn’t genuinely dead serious in his hate anymore as he used to be with Dylan. Zach now had a girlfriend in his life and so life was looking at bit more optimistic than it had been. Dylan still resonated with Zach as a person and missed him very much – but he knew things had just..changed. they would never be on the same page anymore with their misery. Still, he shared personal, emotional stuff with Zach which was not his relationship style with Eric. Dylan felt stuck and frustrated and only Eric was there – consistently- to meet him at the same level and to provide a solution for that pain. As for Dylan’s ‘love’, she was an ideal he had held in his mind. He ultimately realized and resigned to the fact that the reality of ‘she’ would never come forward or reveal herself in this lifetime. The two would never confess/return feelings for one another – as he’d hoped and longed for in his imagination – it just wasn’t in the cards. His dream of going NBK with “The Girl” was just that, a dream. Yet, the thoughts of happiness about her carried him forward, propelled him to meet one last goal that meant a hell of a lot more than getting good grades or graduating on to college. He would realize the reality of Judgment and his death day with Eric, his very good friend who would be there with him in their suicide pact. Then beyond that, he and his love would be in wait of each other, their reward would be in finding one another on the other side. While Eric and Dylan may not have both equally considered one another ‘best friends’, they were ideal friends, in that perfect storm sort of way: right time, right conditions and with a common interest binding them together in one shared goal they both badly sought to accomplish.
I get the sense that Devon Adams was very sociably inclusive and generous in calling close associates of her’s “best friends”. Like Robyn Anderson, Devon seemed to work on extending a friendship and building trust with timid Dylan. The reward of doing so meant that both girls got to know the “real” Dylan Klebold. It’d take a bit of time to get Dyl to drop his guard but when he finally felt comfortable enough in doing so around those few girls that worked at it such as Devon and Robyn, he’d reveal that more chill, zany side of himself and also the loyalty. Dylan also became very close with Zach and he mentions in his journal that he considers Zach his best friend. Zach and Dylan are super close because they talk on the phone nightly and share their upsets and bond in depression. At some point in ‘97, Devon and Zach become a couple. For Zach, the intimacy with Devon allows him to go to her for counsel to help him with problems. The dynamic for Dylan becomes like ‘threes a crowd’. By Zach and Devon wanting to spend all their time together, Dylan fells betrayed and kicked out like he’s the third wheel. It is not hard to see Dylan grappling with this sudden turn of events in his journal. He recalls all the good times with Zach, all the fun things they did together for the first time. Instead of being angry at Zach for not being there for him, he directs his anger at Devon. Devon is the one that took his best friend away from him. He holds her responsible. In his struggle with feeling angry and abandoned by his best friend, he jokes in a bitterly, sarcastic way about Devon “..who I wouldn’t mind killing.” Did he mean this in the literally sense? I say, no. Was he ranting about Devon maliciously to blow off steam? Yes. The fact of the matter is, Dylan is fifteen and a half years old and has just started writing in his journal and he is years away from the Columbine attack. In my opinion, people say nasty stuff all the time in their journal. This is what journals are for, right? To express all the ugliness you’re feeling. Dylan’s idle consideration that he wouldn’t mind killing Devon is not some red flag clue that he’s serious about doing so or that he is showing sociopathic tendencies. I think to reach that conclusion is a bit of a stretch. Dylan was deeply hurt. His two good friends had found an even closer bond in each other and Dylan felt left in the dust. Dylan was also jealous that he couldn’t have the same sort of thing with a girl. Devon was the key that took his guy friend away, his emotional sounding board. He was angry and expressed that he’d metaphorically like to kill Devon for instigating change that made him feel all the more alone. Saying you want to kill someone in your personal journal is normal and natural. Who hasn’t done this at some point? Come clean, now people. 😉 It’s a way to to exorcise the pain and outrage. It’s cathartic. Nothing more. Also, Dylan remained friends with Devon the whole time he said these things in his journal about her. He was still her friend even though it was a struggle to get used to the new dynamics.
Quirks: The idiosyncrasies of DBK
Custom AoL T-Shirt
Ryan Walda stated that he attended an English class with him last semester, but he didn’t have much to do with Dylan, except to talk on a few occasions. I asked Ryan if he and Dylan had ever gotten into an argument and Ryan stated that he and Dylan exchanged word once about a T-shirt that Dylan had been wearing. I asked Ryan what the T-shirt had said and he stated that it had “AOL. where cool hackers hang out” printed on it. Ryan had asked about the shirt because Dylan had worn it almost everyday and he just wanted to know what it meant. Dylan replied that it had to do with him doing his own programming and an instant message group he used called “PuNtErS aNd PrOgS”.
I don’t think Dylan thought one way or the other about it. He came from a mixed faith family and was raised celebrating the significant traditional holidays of both religions such as Passover, Hanukkah, Christmas. When Eric became interested in Hitler and the Nazis philosophy, Dylan seemed to have ignored his partial jewish heritage; it was waaay on the back burner of his mind. He probably considered himself even less a christian because the overzealous turn-off the fundamentalist christian community was in Littleton. Overall, he was apathetic about religion in general so wasn’t fussed about any of it. Dylan went along with Eric’s nazi fascination and it doesn’t appear that he was nervous or needed to conceal his partial heritage. I think Dylan may have just wished it away by not entertaining that he was part jewish. Because of this, it was easy for him to join in with Eric’s Nazi fascination – which he, himself, also thought was cool in his symbolic representation of bad ass power. Dylan joining in with the ‘heil hitlers’ during each strike in bowling class was simply edgy fun for the two and a bonus if it got a rise out of their conservative classmates. Dylan was, apparently, so lax about concealing his partial jewish heritage to the point where he let slip that his family observed Passover in the Basement Tapes. Dylan then tried to minimize the percentage of jewish heritage he had on his mother’s side, to a very incredulous, confounded Eric. Apparently, this revelation did not change anything about their friendship – both were far too vested in NBK to let a little jewishness get in the way. 😉
Goofy, sneaky sense of humor, he was morose and make jokes about things that a lot people don’t make jokes about..about death and about really dark things.
AXE and Old Spice Cigarettes, gun powder, clove cigarettes, Dr. Pepper, Sweet Tarts and oh, yeah, ozone.. like that charged scent of the air after a thunderstorm. 😉
Didn’t look hygienic, huh? Eric seemed like he’d be a compulsive ‘once or twice a day’ persnickety sort. Dyl, an every other day, quick shower in the morning, let the hair air dry on the way to school.
kettlewhistle said: I’ll never know for sure, but I have a hunch Dyl-Pickle smelled funky. In a good way, though! In fact, many of his classmates would comment on his hygiene & greasy hair. That tall genius simply didn’t have the time for such things.
Yep, definitely true that a few of his classmates presumed his hygiene a was lacking and described him as having ‘greasy hair’. However, I don’t think he was negligent on hygiene just that it wasn’t a daily ritual like it is for some people whether they really need it or not. Foregoing a shower for a day or two doesn’t mean the dude stunk like Pig Pen – just that he had the natural, low-key body odor – ‘nice funk’ as you described. 🙂 I think classmates just tended to judge the long, unruly hair , his jeans haphazardly tucked into one boot and not the other – and ran wild with their assumptions and judgments. I suspect Dyl also didn’t bother with the daily shower for a legit reason which I, myself, can also appreciate dealing with the naturally curly hair thing. If he refrained from washing it and letting it dry and shrink/curl up like it is in the ‘Morning Ritual’ where you can see it partially wet/dry, he could then run his hands through it all day and let it naturally smooth out from the oil on his hands to the point where it would become that long, smooth-haired look by the next day around – ala Radioactive Clothing. In the Frankenstein Roast vid too, you can see him constantly working his hair, in part out of awkward fidgeting, but also just to tame his hair straight. The dude crashed around 1:30 am after playing Doom/Quake and then struggled to wake up at 4:30-5 am for bowling class. Can picture him constantly slamming the snooze button before rolling out of bed, shrugging at the shower and grabbing the AoL t-shirt and wearing it for the second (or third) day in a row before tossing it into the permanent dirty clothes pile. Pretty typical teenage boy stuff. Other than his signature uniform of trench and sunglasses, Dyl’s underneath look was pretty laid back-bohemian with the well worn t-shirt and jeans. Agreed that the “tall genius” did not focus on personal primping and had an aversion to any status symbols. I often refer to him as a ’90s hippy. 😉
Aww, why thankss. 🙂 You know, you can feel free to divulge this sort of stuff on or off anon, right? Very nice to hear the kind words and I’m glad you enjoy my Dylan-centric blog! 🙂
From the very rare footage taped by Brooks, of Dylan age 16, playing video games on playstation (mostly tekken 3) and watching rammstein music video at his home with Zack and Brooks.
We can hear a girl(?) laughing, maybe it’s Devon Adams or Robyn.
Dyl (or perhaps someone else?) doing The Donald Duck.
Mm..no. Get ready for this: that’s Dyl laughing like a girl and someone else is doing The Donald Duck “Get the fuck out!” voice. Yep.
You’re referring to this post. The implication is that this guy believes that Dylan made the call and said “this is Eric Harris..there’s a bomb in the building.” This post is based on someone that researched Columbine early on and became friends with a few of Eric and Dylan’s friends. He did some investigative work on his own talking to actual people involved. His account in the post is speculative and not a fact. This is his gut feeling based on how deep in the research he was and also the personal connections he made with people close to the shooters. From his own research he did, he heard that Dylan was seen on the pay phones around the time the school secretary received the threatening phone call. This is off the record stuff and it’s not in the 11K. This guy befriended Chad Laughlin and roomed with him in Santa Cruz. I would say it’s very likely that the mother that spoke to Dylan while Dylan was lacing up his boots was likely Chad Laughlin’s mom.
When Dylan’s co worker said that he hit her how do you think he did it? I feel like she blown it out into proportion.
This would be Michelle Hartsough who was a coworker at Blackjack pizza that apparently also had a supervisor role of some sort in her position with Eric and Dylan.
While I wouldn’t say this incident didn’t happen, it seems suspect given that Michelle Hartsough is the only employee that makes this claim. None of the other Blackjack coworkers, especially female coworkers like Kim Carlin and Sarah Arbogast, who knew Eric and Dylan pretty well, seemed not to have mentioned witnessing the incident or at the very least heard about it and volunteered to support Michelle’s claim and back her up. I would imagine a female worker being slapped by a male subordinate coworker would have lead to, at the very least, a report incident filed as record with maybe various probational warnings assigned to it. I know the manager there that E & D liked was a drunk and a very lax manager but even still, when a female worker has been physically abused by their male coworker? You would think someone there would have backed up Michelle’s claim. Secondarily, I would like to know exactly what ‘infraction’ she was reprimanding Dylan for. Isn’t this kind of an important detail that the investigators should have asked her to elaborate on? I know the investigators were pretty lame on a lot of details, so..yeah, this doesn’t surprise me much that they did not find out what the infraction actually was. I would speculate, maybe, that this had to do with Dylan bringing the pipe bomb into work.
So, yes, I am doubtful of this incident and while I’m not suggesting that Michelle’s out-and-out lying, I question the authenticity of her claim because no other coworker has corroborated her story. You would think given the investigative team was trying to flesh out all these details about the ‘Columbine Killers’ and given that Michelle drops a bomb that one of the killers actually lashed out and physically harmed her, wouldn’t they have followed up and asked other Blackjack employees about Eric and Dylan’s behavior? Especially incidents of physically harming coworkers? We have documented evidence of the two bringing pipe bombs in to work and few employees report this in the 11K but no one has pitched in and said ‘yeah, you know, that’s actually true that Michelle did get hit by Dylan.’ But nope. So, then you would have to ask.. why would Michelle say such a thing? Well, maybe it’s because it’s true that Dylan didn’t like Michelle, and wasn’t especially nice to her and in return, Michelle barely tolerated Dylan. Since, Dylan was now infamous and dead and couldn’t speak for himself, she decided to embellish and say that Dylan was so rude to her that he hit her once. This way she could have the last word and add to his notoriety. However, if someone ever came forward to support her claim, I’d be more believing that this was a factual incident. I’m less inclined to buy Michelle’s claim because it’s an unsupported accusation. That said, I do consider that Dylan was not beyond the occasional inappropriate temper issues, the lashing-out with angry/aggressive/frustrated outbursts as evinced in his gym class with certain girls.
The Everlasting Contrast 