Comments on: Seattle Zombie Party Massacre

By: Was the Zombie Rave Killer a Sleeper Assassin? - Pop Occulture

Was the Zombie Rave Killer a Sleeper Assassin? - Pop Occulture — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:19:40 +0000

[...] 7;s forums (a local Seattle rag), offering an interpretation of the motivations behind the Seattle zombie rave murder. “Pernapi” writes about the in [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:38:56 +0000

ay yai yai….

no wonder… delta 9 was spinning… that style is def kill people music.

actually negative shit like this theme party has been going on alot in the rave scene for the last few years…. not how it used to be at all… kinda sad really….

welp, im glad i was in miami…… i just played the largest rave in the country on the 25th… this is the first i heard about this, ive been raving for the last 5 days…

damn, im sure this is gonna lead to some great press… ill post up here if i hear anything interesting from the scene

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By: Janice

Janice — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:15:54 +0000

I noticed a very strange coincidence while reading about the Seattle murders: Another murder spree happened in Sacramento, CA the same night, by a man with the same name (Aaron) and the same age (26)! He randomly walked down the street shooting people in the head and back with a 12 guage rifle (Same gun type); two people died, I believe. The shooter was also characterized as a nice, quiet young man. I just thought all of the similarities were remarkable and wondered if they were possibly possessed by conspiring demons.

By: Anna Montana

Anna Montana — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:00:37 +0000

This incident hit close to our home, as my roommate Erin used to work with was was friends with two of the guys who were killed. Incidentally, the shooter was from Whitefish Montana, a small town just 8 miles from my hometown in Montana.

By: Aditi

Aditi — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:07:43 +0000

Oddly enough, I actually had a dream the night before it happened about a shooting occuring in a blue house. In my (gloss) dream version, the shooter was looking at items at an estate sale and then randomly shot and killed everyone in the room who was looking at everything he was interested in.

I had *assumed* that I had this dream because I’ve been reading a lot of William Burroughs recently, but I haven’t had a dream like that since. Freaky…

By: JK

JK — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:13:26 +0000

It would have been my hood (about 5 blocks away) had I not moved to your hood jp. I wonder if I would have heard the shots had I still lived there. Cos you know, I used to actually regularly hear gunshots coming from what sounded like the vicinity of Volunteer Park in the wee hours.

There was some other murder at Miller Community Center a few years back if I remember correctly too. Ah yes, almost two years to the week to boot.

By: :)

:) — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:02:29 +0000

Truly my condolences to all the people killed. I wish disgruntled people could alleviate themselves some other way with out having to kill innocent people. I can only imagine the horror that was unleashed upon people completly innocent.
There were 6 people killed in Mexico not too far from where I live in Pharr Texas. Probably not too innocent but still violent deaths only will increase the violence in the world. http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/03/27/mexico.bodies.ap/

Lastly Opus Dei is not a radical Catholic organization. Brown writes elaborate fantasies. The wiki entry on Opus Dei is fair. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei

By: jp

jp — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:55:24 +0000

a couple of thoughts:

1. i used to live a block away from where this happened, which makes it doubly-weird.

2. the regulatory wonks are already jerking off all over this one. they’re already suggesting we need new rules and regulations for underage dances and teen house parties (not, as the slog notes, for guns and nutjobs). i especially like this observation:

“how many new rules and regulations do we need to make sure that something that has never happened before does not ever happen again?”

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:59:25 +0000

http://www.slate.com/id/2138483/nav/tap1/

off topic, but this might come in handy for that Gnostic Da Vinci Code you were discussing a while back.

Brown has done a lot of thinking about what makes a successful Dan Brown thriller. He has found that it requires a few essential elements: some kind of shadowy force, like a secret society or government agency; a “big idea” that contains a moral “grey area”; and a treasure. The treasures in Brown’s four novels have been a meteorite, anti-matter, a gold ring, and the Holy Grail. The shadowy forces have included the Priory of Sion, Opus Dei, and the National Security Agency. The big idea, if I’m reading him correctly, goes something like this: Is the Vatican good â€¦ or is it evil? Is the National Security Agency for us â€¦ or is it against us? When all of Brown’s elements come together, doled out over cliffhanging chapters, with characters that exist to “move the plot along,” it is like mixing the ingredients to make a cake. For example, Deception Point, Brown’s third novel, is “a thriller about a meteorite discovered in the Arcticâ€”a discovery that turns out to have profound political ramifications for an impending presidential election.”

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:56:20 +0000

Speaking of which, I remembered something else… when I was taking the bus home that night, around 1:00am (the shooting happened like six hours later), a crazy old man on the bus was talking about how tomorrow he was going to take his shotgun out and do something or other with it. I saw him again on the bus the next night though, so I assume it was just a peculiar coincidence.

By: shawn

shawn — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:47:39 +0000

This whole thing freaks me out a little.
I was at a party last night (nothing like the one in the story; a birthday party for a 5 year old) and it turns out that the brother of the woman throwing the party knew a couple of the people who had been killed… Wild.

As for the “now” thing, The Stranger picked up on this too and even discovered a “connection”…
http://www.thestranger.com/blog/archives/2006/03/19-25.php#a005070

By: thoughtographer

thoughtographer — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:05:07 +0000

I’d say you have a geographical advantage here, Tim. I’m on the east coast, but you can bet I’d be down there on the ground with a camera if I had the chance.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:51:39 +0000

I wonder if we would be able to go track down and photograph these 3 locations or if they’ve already been painted over…

By: thoughtographer

thoughtographer — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:43:01 +0000

With orange spray paint, he wrote â€œnow,â€ on at least three concrete steps at homes near the party.

I would be interested in any details about this. Was he caught “orange-handed”, so to speak? Are the locations identified?