Do you know where i can listen to A mothers reckoning, audio for free anywhere? i really want the book but im broke lol :( plus, i would love to hear the audio of sue reading her book. as sad as it is.

I won’t personally offer Sue’s book in any form for free because the proceeds go to mental health organizations for research.  So, it’s important that people purchase her book because they are helping her with their contribution. You get; you give: You get to read her book and you give money to help her cause. 🙂  And tbh, the hard/softbound book/audio book has been out for a while now and so the price has been reduced over time.  If you’re working a job or doing chores for cash, you can put away a couple of dollars each week rather than spending $4-5 on that Starbucks frappucino. 😉 

If you want to listen to Sue’s audiobook free of charge, your best bet would be to risk signing up for Audibles free 30-day trial in which you can listen to any book for free within the trial period and then you’d cancel the trial before being billed. 

Did Eric try to date Karen Ann Schott or something ? Because he said that she was “fucking bitch” in the Basement Tapes and Karen herself said that he was nice to her… I’m confused..

I would say that Karen probably innocently turned Eric down but from his singed ego perspective, she majorly rejected him.   She is probably one of those ‘bitches’ that Eric ranted about in that one Basement Tape where he’s alone in his car talking to the camera.  Karen Ann Schott was also on Dylan’s (S)hit list, I do believe.  I tend to think that when one or the other hated a certain someone, the other dude showed their solidarity against their friend’s targeted person by also adding the same target to their own hit list.  I’m sure Karen was completely flummoxed as to why she was on Eric’s hit list because he probably never once gave her the impression that she’d insulted him.

Do you think dylan would’ve done what he said in his journal about slitting his wrist’s open, if he hadn’t done NBK?

Dylan wrote about ‘slitting his wrists’ in an extreme reaction to the odds that the girl he pined for didn’t return his love.  It wasn’t in connection with whether he did NBK or not.  

The actual quote here..

“ If by fate’s choice, [edited] didn’t love me, id slit my wrist & blow up Atlanta ( pipe bomb) strapped to my neck. It’s good, understanding. a hard road since my realization, but it gets easier. BUT IT DOESNT! That’s part of existence. Unpredictable.” – DBK

Now, do I think he would’ve done it that way?  Well, I think Dylan spent 95% of his life fantasizing about various ways he could suicide leading up to NBK (when, he’d eventually, finally, had the nerve to kill himself alongside his friend Eric). His mental dabblings in suicidal ideations was a form of a coping mechanism – a sort of stress relief for him to imagine how he’d take care of matters if things got to be worse than he could fathom and far too much for him to bear (on top of everything else that he felt sucked in his measly life).  He might’ve to slit his wrists, sure but tbh, I don’t think logically he’d see that as his first choice of means to go out.  It’d be slower and painful then a gunshot to the head but of course, that’s why he added on the follow-up ‘chaser’ with a pipebomb going off with *BANG!* while attached to his being. Then again, no guarantees there either he’d assuredly die.  I just think the scenario he concocted was dramatic in relative relation to the surge of anxiety level that engulfed him in ‘going there’ mentally with the possibility that if his True Love didn’t love him back – well, then what …  ?  

His description comes off sounding something akin to “I’m going to plunge the knife in my chest and throw myself off a cliff and be eaten by sharks” There is a certain amount of romantic flourish to his creatively, melodramatic suicidal fantasy inventions.

Once Dylan would dream up these ‘solutions’ mentally, he could rest easy in knowing that he wouldn’t have to live life any longer (if and when he chose to) should he find out he couldn’t ever have the one great thing he wished for. Because then there would be a pre-conceived ‘escape plan’ for himself when everything got to be too much for him to manage and deal with.

Do you ever just hear certain songs or see something in your daily commute and smile because it reminds you of Dylan? Like he’s saying “hi”…

All the damn time. haha.  I especially like when Spotify mysteriously, and anomalously, skips to a particular something that has nothing to do with the artist I’m listening to, yet is totally relevant to Dyl in music and lyrics.. which leaves me with a ‘well, hello you…’ smirky smile on my face. 😉

The fact that you know where Byron lives, What pet he has, What his children look like, what their names and ages is extremely creepy. Why do you need to know this? its almost like your trying to be apart of their family as Dylans “spiritual hippy dippy girlfriend” The Klebold family would be creeped the fuck out by you if they met you and found out about this blog. Being interested and knowing a lot about Dylan is one thing but knowing a lot about a person who is not notorious for anything anot

It’s not that I need to know it, it’s just that I know it (for reasons I’m not about to go into) and people have asked. The fact that you’ve (apparently) spent a fair amount of time on my blog reading it enough to know various detailed information about the Klebolds should by your own judgmental standards make you feel kinda creepy about your own self, now shouldn’t it? 

Look. No one here is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to stay and read my blog and yet..and yet. you’ve spent considerable time doing so.  If you don’t like what I do then leave. Simple as that.  Go visit blogs that have the standard general information that can be found anywhere if that’s what floats your boat, doesn’t threaten you or ‘creep you out’. 

Thank goodness you take those kinds of comments with good humor. Because here, on the other side I get bored easily with that sort of thing thrown at you. Let’s have 100 years together! haha <3

Oh, don’t get me wrong. I get bored just as easily as it’s the same ol’ predictable, juvenile crap I receive occasionally. They are coming at me with what they think is their finest brand of salty shade and I’m just well, gotta say..half yawning over here. lol

And *nods* cheers to 100.  ❤

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Sue spoke of Dylan’s reluctance in participating in Jewish customs but, do you think he would have been more inclined to acknowledge and even partially practice that family faith in his adult years?

I tend to think as teens get older and more mature they eventually shed their rebellious phase and as adults, they will often re-embrace the observances of some family traditions they grew up with. And without getting so knee-jerk allergic to it. Assuming that Dylan survived well into adulthood, I wouldn’t doubt if his older more mellowed out self would be comfortable participating in his mother’s customs for the simple fact that it makes her happy to pass on her Jewish heritage to her sons.  Less of that “she wants me to do it and I can’t stand the embarrassment of recite-singing the 4 questions in front of everyone’ to ‘she asked me to do it and I don’t mind if it pleases her once a year’. I don’t want to say that Dylan would suddenly become religious because I tend to doubt that – only that he might nominally observe one or both of his parents religious upbrings for the occasional holiday traditions had he made it to 36 and was married with a wife and kids. A lot of what you grow up with as a kid become engrained in you even if you rejected all of it as a teen / young adult. 

hello, Maddy! youre pretty, I like your style! Im virgo sun, leo moon and a fellow scorpio rising ;)

Oh wow, someone called me a nick only my family uses. lol  – I admit, it’s kind of weird seeing that on here.   Uh oh. Looks like you stumbled upon a selfie I posted ages back, huh.  Aww, you’re very sweet to say *blushes* thank you darlin’ ❤    I gotta love a fellow Scorpio Rising and paired with pragmatic Virgo.  Suhweet!   Leo moon has got to be rather showy coupled with that Scorp Rising too.  

Not so much a question, but the anon from SoCal. It has not been raining at all here. We need it, that’s for sure. Thank you for your kind words. I’m also going to be in Denver for work and I have my tickets to see Sue Klebold speak at the symposium. I am very excited.

Oh good, I’m glad to hear SoCal is getting some much-needed water. Our state desperately needs it!  I gotta say I’ve been enjoying these rainy November days as it’s nice to chill out and be reflective.   I’m glad to hear you’re going to make it to see Sue next month!  Please be sure to let us know how it goes and if you ask her a question. 🙂 

Sure is convenient for “everything to fall into place” when you’re 100 yrs old, spend 24/7/365 on tumblr, & practically kill yourself to insert yourself into a tragedy & a 90s teenager life (lol for you). But as long as you impress the idiot tumblr masses you’re relevant, right? Luv that newfound religion btw lol. “It was a carthasis.” Stop lying to yourself honey he was a pussy who couldn’t face death alone. Sad for you that’s a hero. Love? He woulda loved the IDEA of any pussy. You’re an idiot

What do you think Eric & Dylan would think about the fact that Columbine shooting is no longer the top 10 words shootings in America?

Per the Basement Tapes transcript:

They expect to be famous, to have a cult of followers after they die. They have advice for whoever those kids might be.

“If you’re going to go f—— psycho and kill a bunch of people like us … do it right,” Klebold says.

They (the teenage E & D from back then) would believe they accomplished not only kickstarting a revolution but had others succeed with far more devastating results (than what they shoestring budget pioneered). The current mass shooters ‘did it right” and in their name.  But they’d always be ‘the first’, the two that started the movement, no matter how superior the weapons or how much bigger the kill count.  Future successors point back to them for residuals credit.