The Halloween Adventures of Tin Tin

November 1st
Mhmmmmm....well. Last night was Halloween.
Possibly one of the silliest nights of the year where for no apparent reason in North America we dress up, or if you are High school and older dress down, and walk around in the cold and the dark and the wet asking for candy, going to parties and drinking or the likes.
Perhaps you can tell. I am not much a fan of Halloween and even worse this year Halloween was on a Wednesday! Which meant TWO weekends of Halloween partying! I don't think that's how it works. but for the next 3 days (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) there will be drunk people in very little clothing stumbling around Victoria and yelling on the bus. (I'm such a downer)
But the reason I am posting this is because of a certain french man I met this weekend. No he was not french in actuality, he was probably just another lanky Victorian hipster, but he was dressed....AS TIN TIN!
YEAH! The Tin Tin of my childhood!

He even had the dog!! Milou (or Snowy)! It was stuffed of course and stuck to his back pack but still awesome. 

He even looked exhausted like he had just been solving mysteries and crimes (he was probably just hung over and on his way home). 

Anyways, so I met him at a bus stop and he starts talking to me and I'm thinking, 'this boy sure looks familiar.' But I know almost next to no gingers so I just asked why he had a dog stuck to his bag. And he's like 'I'm Tin Tin.' Then we proceeded to have a long conversation about our favorite Tin Tin stories as we road the bus and how the movie that recently came out was a lot better than we had expected it to be.(link) 

So if for some reason you're reading this and you don't know who Tin Tin is, (your understanding of childhood is wrong) let me fill you in.

Tin Tin was a series of comic strips written in french by a Belgium man who went by the pseudonym of Herge. They were about a young journalist, Tin Tin, who with the help of his trusty terrier, Snowy, went on adventures (usually non-political themes to avoid trouble with the Gestapo) to track down bad guys and get the news story.
Yeah, so I met this kid and it's probably one of the best costumes I've ever seen (The girl covered in balloons and claiming she was grapes would be a close 2nd though.) and it's pretty easy to put together too...well for hipsters at least.
So there you go. Hope you've lived through the 1st Halloween weekend and will be able to make it through a second without injury or death.
Au revoir Cecilly