Village Halloween Parade 2002

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On October 31, 2002, my friends Leo and Sergey, my sister Fina, and I marched in New York City's Village Halloween Parade for the first time.  We had a great time, and this parade is now a tradition for us.

I was dressed as my idol Groucho Marx, Fina was the sort of evil nurse sick people have nightmares about, Leo made quite the biohazard of himself, and Sergey was looking dignified as a priest.

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Myself (Rob) and Fina, mingling in the pre-parade crowd while Leo tries to make himself known behind us.	Myself, Leo, and Fina	Fina looking funky
	After the parade, many performers tok over a nearby deli.  Here Leo oversees his next chemistry experiment.	Leo's costume was a paper biohazard suit and a pair of antique goggles which kept steaming up on him.
Photographer Sergey desparately tries to get a decent group shot of Leo, myself, and Fina.	A neat close-up of Fina's eye-makeup job.	Fina's costume consisted of a black nursey-looking dress and black nurse headgear from Hot Topic, temporary black beeswax dreads, latex gloves stained black with my hair spray, a wicked makeup job, and a wicked expression.
My costume consisted of a black hair-spray job courtesy of Fina, black face paint, a normal black overcoat I altered into a tux jacket, maroon knit tie, tweed trousers, and an old cigar the tobacconist in Penn Station was ready to throw away.  My Groucho impression got lots of mileage that night.	I don't smoke.  This is the most interesting thing I did with that crusty cigar all night.	Sergey and Fina later at McDonald's.
Sergey made quite a convincing priest, complete with Bible and desire to tell everyone else what to do.	Leo, out of costume, looking like his normal(?) self.	Fina
	Leo tries to out-stare a digital camera.	Sergey and Fina on the train back to Long Island.
Sergey wasn't charged for this ride.  We speculate that the conductor was fooled by his costume, but could he really not have noticed that this priest was riding with an anti-nurse and a deceased Vaudevillian?
Leo being Leo.

The next two pictures were taken by Photogra dot com, a site which sends photographers around to public events, snaps photos alongside all the real news photographers, and tries to sell the photos they take of people back to them.  I find that awful.

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