Halloween 1996

Halloween fell on a week night that year, and as I recall I had to teach a 9 a.m. Cartography class hours away from this footage, taken by some unknown partier on Seymour St downtown Vancouver. Michelle (far right) and I (left), dressed in Robert Smith garb, were heading to the Purple Onion after an unsuccessful attempt at bribing other revelers in a queue at Luvaffair. This was the umpteenth Spiderman we saw out but Michelle really wanted a pic. I won worst costume at a Rocky Horror Picture Show in North Van earlier in the eve, showing off my prizes of assorted toys and trinkets to my class the next day. I found out later after lecture, unfortunately not soon enough to quell rumours, that I had forgotten to wipe off my mascara.