Since Dylan and Zack drifted, do you think Dylan ever considered anyone else his ‘best friend’ after that?

No, I don’t. I think ‘best friends’ was a special category beyond ‘good friends’,  reserved for people he really resonated with and felt they understood him, who he was, best. Zack was the only dude he felt a kinship and common-ground bond with which is why it stung when Zack was less available in having a new-found girlfriend in his life.  Because Dylan had never had that before with any other friend in the past or present. He’d finally had it for a brief moment in time and then it felt whisked away from him. It felt like utter rejection and abandonment.

Would Dylan have been able to have a satanic girlfriend?

I feel as though Dylan would’ve done fine with an unconventional girl that was into the occult and metaphysics. I think he’d find that interesting and attractive as it demonstrated her anti-mainstream individualism – someone that thinks outside the box – especially in being surrounded by the rigid Christian mentality in narrow-minded Littleton. I think he’d enjoy a girlfriend that questioned the world around her just as he did.  She could be any variety of Wicca/Paganism or sure, even LaVey Satanism. I think he’d get a kick out of dating the latter as it’d be a big ‘fuck you all’ to his town. 

“How Should Hollywood Respond to Mass Shootings?”

acinnamon-girl:

The Atlantic has published a fantastic article today on how popular culture currently treats mass shootings, using the Showtime series, Active Shooter: America Under Fire to provide context and suggestions. I highly recommend anyone interested in this topic check it out.

“There are plenty of reasons why the entertainment industry avoids the topic of mass shootings, the most salient being concerns about a copycat effect. After the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, a handful of indie film directors considered the subject, in movies like Zero Day, Elephant, and Bang Bang You’re Dead. But the fact that so many lawsuits subsequently blamed pop culture itself for Columbine seems to have turned mass shootings into something most artists don’t dare touch.

There’s something awkward, though, if not outright hypocritical, in churning out cultural products that glamorize gun violence while refusing to engage with the reality of it. For one thing, stories are integral to how humans process real-life events, particularly tragedies. They encourage empathy for victims, and they attempt to convey some extent of the horror. One of Holzman’s main motivations in making Active Shooter, the producer told me, was to humanize statistics that can be hard to comprehend from news reports. The current protocol for stories that tackle mass shootings is to remove them from the public whenever real-life violence occurs—a tacit endorsement of the gun lobby’s argument that the aftermath of a tragedy is the worst time to politicize it. But what if stories can help?…

This isn’t to rail against TV shows and movies that feature gun violence, which is a different argument for a different day. It’s to underline that Hollywood unfailingly responds to mass shootings by looking away. Episodes are delayed; releases are put on hold; promotional events are canceled. Then, after a minimally disruptive period of time has passed, everything returns to normal. But while gun violence quickly becomes acceptable again to depict on film or television, the topic of mass shootings is studiously avoided. The reason that’s most frequently proffered is sensitivity to victims, but coming from an industry that’s hardly squeamish about portraying, for example, sexual violence, it’s hard to fully accept.

The fear of inspiring copycat shootings has also deterred artists since Columbine, which saw a spate of complaints against filmmakers, video-game companies, and musicians for supposedly inspiring its perpetrators. But, as with any difficult subject, there are ways to approach it without glorifying violent crimes or contributing to the mystique around perpetrators. Active Shooter, like the recent documentary Newtown, spends as little time talking about perpetrators as possible. It notes only basic biographical information that adds context to the ongoing question of why these outbreaks of horrific violence keep happening.”

Read the entire article here.

Where do you get all your research from I seem to think that I am well informed on everything there is to know about Columbine but I always learn new things here on your blog. Like Dylan getting into an argument with someone about jocks having anything and everything. I did’nt know this. How did it go about?

When did Dylan get into an argument with another student about the jocks? I tried to do a search for it but came up empty:(

In your recent posts you said Dylan got into an argument with a kid about rich assholes what happened during that argument?

I didn’t necessarily mean arguing with jocks specifically but ‘spoiled’ entitled anyone at that school.  We don’t know for certain if the redacted dude that pissed off Dylan was a jock – although it’s quite possible – but it seems to be implied here that Dylan’s irritation was stoked in the confrontation because he actually was arguing with one of those spoiled kids about annoying spoiled kids at their school. And it was winding Dylan up even more. He was mad and it probably made a scene. Whats more, it probably irritated the fuck out of Dylan that this spoiled snob was associating with his friend Robyn. (funny how this dude seems to volunteer that that might also have ticked Dylan off, huh.)  I’m sure he probably disliked seeing this dude interacting with her in class or the halls. He probably wore new statusy Ambecrombie clothes every day of the week and zoomed in the parking lot in his shiny, brand-new, vehicle that he received for his birthday.

[JSO – 010543]

On 042999 I contacted [redacted] by phone, at that time I advised him that I was doing follow up on the Columbine incident and I wanted to ask him some question regarding Dylan Klebold.  [Redacted] stated that that would be ok and I asked him if he had been in classes with Dylan.  [Redacted] stated that he had been in an English class last semester, and he had known he and Eric in his freshman and sophomore years, but they hadn’t really stayed in contact.  I asked [redacted] if he had had any run-ins or arguments with Dylan in the past and [redacted] replied that he and Dylan had an argument in class about spoiled kids who always got everything they wanted ([redacted] himself as a spoiled kid) and that Dylan got mad about it.  [Redacted] also believed that since he knew Robyn Anderson, Dylan might not have been happy with him.  At that point, [redacted] asked if he was on a list or something and I denied that I knew anything about it.

On Dylan’s (S)hit List:
CN 2029 [Redacted] Male 7-25-80 – had English class with Dylan ‘98 – had argument with Dylan about spoiled kids – Dylan had seen him on occasion with Robyn Anderson

I asked [redacted] if he knew anyone at school that used the nickname “Waldo” and [redacted] replied well there is a jock named Ryan Walda who sometimes uses the name “Waldo” but that’s all I know.

On Dylan’s (S)hit List:
CN 1723 Ryan “Waldo” Gregory Walda 11-28-80
See: PuNtErS & pRoGs and Waldo, Oh My!

I honestly feel like Eric and Dylan were jealous of the jocks life style and that’s why they hated them so much. The jocks had so many things that they wanted and never got.

Partially, yes.  Most especially where Dylan is concerned because Dylan envied how easy, happy and abundant their lives appeared to be.  But even more so, the two were resentful at how the jocks could throw their weight around and be arrogant dicks to others yet the school turned a blind eye and treated them like the untouchable, upper echelon.  They intensely disliked the favoritism the jocks received without question.  Some of them were given expensive cars and phones by their parents without having to earn anything. Dylan hated the rich snobs’ entitlement.  He got into an argument with a student about it once.

Do you have a picture of eric dutro

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Eric Dutro in ‘96 and ‘97   Eric was part of the original TCM and a friend of Joe Stair. The two were wicked trouble together against the jocks. The Dean, Peter Horovath, described Joe Stair and Eric Dutro has the ring leaders of the TCM group last year (’97-98) and described Joe as being a good student and very respectful but stated that Eric Dutro as a “dark, mean kid and flat out asshole”. Peter recalled that during an incident last school year that Eric Dutro was involved in, he asked one of the subjects: Do you believe in God.

Joe graduated from CHS last school year (’98) and Eric Dutro was expelled from school that same year due to drug violations on school grounds.

What was the incident where Chris Morris and Eric Harris was walking in the hallway and a girl accidentally bumped into Eric and Chris called her a bitch and told her to watch where she’s going?

Ashley Egeland bumped into Chris Morris and Eric as they were walking down the hallway together. Eric was nice to her telling her that not to worry about it and Chris was pissed off and called her a fucking bitch and to watch where she was going.  This was back before Chris had a serious girlfriend and was a hot head much like Eric.