I’m guessing you’re referring to Tim Kastle?  Otherwise, I’d need more information as to what you’re referring to. 

The soccer field is opposite of the senior parking lot, cafeteria/library, and southwest entrance at the back of the school.

Also, why was the school’s gymnasium located on the second floor? I mean.. Not only did they have carpeted hallways but their gym wasn’t on ground level either? Lol none of this is actually important but I just find it to be really weird. The layout is just awkward compared to other schools.

Columbine is built on a hill. When I was inside the school (not sneaking in; I was part of a conference), the gymnasium seemed to feel more like on the ‘main level’ as it was just down the hallway from the main entranceway and the majority of classrooms are on this level.  Then you go downstairs to the lower level which is in a way, like a basement as far as how it feels. The cafeteria, auditorium theater are there along with a hallway that leads to the business-related classrooms, world (foreign) language halls and the tech lab.  It was interesting to me that the computer lab where the geeks hung out resides downstairs kind of hidden and sequestered in the business hallway.  Whereas, the tech lab (where they made video productions) is upstairs. Ironic too that the tech lab is kitty-corner to a sort of prized and showcased ‘athlete row’ that leads to the generously sized gymnasium.  I call it the jock hall of infamy because literally right above the lockers leading down to the gym, weight room, locker rooms, etc. are framed photos of years of various jocks including Rocky and Dusty Hoffschneider lined above each locker.  I’ll have to post that video sometime so you can see how perverse it is. lol  The entire time I was there while school was closed in mid-summer, there were still jocks milling about doing their sports stuff down this hallway and on the sports fields.  Jocks are a perpetual thing here. That was abundantly clear to me. Some things just never change.

Easy. One is real life and the other is fiction. 😉   Columbine, with the duo partnership cooperatively planning nearly a year in advance as a failed bombing turned shooting, is pretty much the standard everyone measures all other mass shootings by..even though, yes, there were mass shooters looong before it. And honestly, I seriously don’t think E & D dug Heathers from the 80′s nor were they inspired by it.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Columbine was ‘original’ just that many others that came after it all aspire to be another Columbine and after so many of these, it seems..well, unoriginal. Their motivation to do a mass shooting is often for no specific reason of their own except to try to be another Columbine or beat it. Blah, how insipid.  

Yeah, there is that voyeuristic, detached reaction these days with everyone so damn attached to their smartphones. Videoing a real live shooting for their social media likes was apparently more important than realizing the presence of danger they and their friends/classmates were in. Yes, it was disturbing footage: kind of like someone sitting there all fascinated with rapt attention while chomping on a bucket of popcorn. Otoh, I suppose in a way, it may have been a bit of a coping mechanism that kept them distanced from the fact that they were so close to imminent death and their focus was on watching/capturing it rather than simply being trapped in the midst of it.  It is sickening if you compare how jaded teens react today to a shooting about to go down in their own classroom versus how it was with students amidst the shooters at Columbine.  If you’d had given them a smartphone in the library would they have risked their lives to use it?  

I meant that it’s been done before one too many times to the point of overdone. Just another dude copycatting all the rest. Redundant ad nauseam. I guess it wasn’t the best choice of wording at the time I wrote that but I was a bit heated at the moment. lol *sigh*

Not too bad, thanks.. (redundant, unoriginal school shooting aside) 
Hope you had a good one as well. 🙂 

How about we pray for the United States to come to its senses?  I mean, let’s be honest here… smh  😦  I don’t condone after-the-fact praying of state tragedies when this nation, as a whole, continues to fail to protect its own citizens with preventative measures so what happened today can no longer continue to happen as easily as it does nowadays.  

pt.2 map! i was wondering if you were able to show us where the smokers pit is or was located on a map. if not, are you able to link us to someone who might knows 🙂 thanks x 

I mentioned the approximate area the smokers pit was in this post.   Here’s a snap I took of the area I was referencing..better late than never, hm? 😉  It was on the border of Clement Park just off of school grounds. As you can see, compared to the photo taken at the time of the massacre, it’s now a much more grass-filled green area these days with more trees.  Back then it was mostly a dirt and grass area.  I tend to think the smokers pit is a nineties thing and no longer an option provided by the school these days for students. It seems just a bit too permissive especially when you consider that most schools and public buildings have clear signs stating that there is “no smoking” on the premise.  Anyway, I hope that helps give a better frame of reference. 🙂  and, I’m doing okay, thanks. ❤

Sitting at a Clement Park picnic table facing the front of the school and teacher’s parking lot which was undergoing some construction over the summer break. 

I’d surmise it’s because it would’ve been far too painful for Sue and Tom to have glimpsed that car collecting dust in the garage or parked in the drive throughout the day and having that sinking feeling every time they glanced its way. The black beamer was a personal symbol of their son once in happier times. Now, they would never see or hear him ever again. Their boy was gone forever and not only had he died by his own hand, to make matters worse, he left this world having done irretrievable reprehensible things that plagued their every waking moment. It would have been a constant, painful reminder to keep the car just to keep it in his memory and for no good reason other than it had belonged to Dylan, their once-promising golden boy, who was now their greatest failure and loss.

(Pt 2) and I feel like you answer everybody’s questions with a perfect accuracy. Things we actually want to hear, even if you don’t “know it” like nobody knows everything, I admire that you play it off cool and joke around here and there and give it a shot without saying things like “well I don’t know!” etc etc. I admire you as a person, whole heartedly! Thank you for this amazing blog, sharing your knowledge, and understanding of everything.

(Pt 3 final) also sometimes when I ask questions I feel like it is Dylan or Eric writing back. (in a nice way of course!!!!) Everything you say is just very informative, straight to the point. I always look forward to coming onto your blog and learning things I didn’t know about Eric nor Dylan, or seeing new documents from the 11k files. So thank you! Thank you Ms wonderful amazing everlasting!!!! 💗💗💗💗

I’m deeply touched by the many reasons you feel appreciation for this blog. I’m glad you feel you’ve learned so much from E-C and that you get when I’ve just been tongue-in-cheek occasionally. Your words are timely and inspirational in ways you could not know.. and so it means a great deal to me personally. Thank you infinitely. ❤️

This is a great question!  It would’ve changed things, for sure.  According to the way things were supposed to happen, Dylan had planned to leave Zack’s church function and have a sleepover at his house.  But had Zack hypothetically somehow ended up killing time along with Dylan and Eric around that van, I tend to think that Zack would’ve been that sensible third party talking some sense into them saying ‘nah I really don’t think it’s a good idea to break into the van…let’s go do something else’.   Especially after Zack ended up getting caught for the locker hacking at their school with these two just 3 months prior and given that Zack’s parents curbed his hanging out with them. I highly doubt Zack wanted to get into more serious trouble so he would’ve been the voice of reason of the three boys.  But when it was just Eric and Dylan, it was like they were two magnets negatively compelled to influence one another to do mischievous, daring and dangerous things and just for the hell of it..out of sheer boredom but also arrogance in thinking they wouldn’t get caught for doing something so ballsy.  But instead, as we know from Sue’s book, Zack ended up getting into a fight with his girlfriend and leaving and so Dylan was kind of, in a way, shelved on the back burner by Zack that night.  Devon was the priority for Zack yet again and clearly not his best bud. And so Dylan probably was feeling kind of poorly with Zack’s drama with his gf and being basically discarded. So when he and Eric met up to loiter around in idle boredom, the two moved beyond just stupid stuff like breaking bottles for the fun of it and now breaking into abandoned vans for the thrill.   Just these two dudes alone, the lone rangers, the lonely hearts club, that had no girlfriends with nothing better to do on a weekend night. These two that didn’t think about consequences of their actions, that wound up into major trouble together and yes, most definitely bonded them tightly for having been caught and humiliated by the cops.  Zack being there with them would’ve influenced them differently and changed the outcome.   But would it have stopped Eric and Dylan from bonding tightly over something else?  Hard to say.