DJ janedoe became the fist DJ to spin at the party, in the first year where dancing was allowed (it was previously considered too festive an activity for the Black Hearts Party).

Guests made their own evil Valentine’s Day cards with blank black cards and our wide selection of disturbing images.

The food table included a black wedding cake with a homicidal bride figurine and dead groom, and fittingly the last year we served Oreo cookies with the whites scraped out (by now a six-year-old tradition) was in the same building where Oreos were invented.

The black make-up counter was a popular item, especially among straight men, oddly enough.

The Globe of Two Hundred Live Black Crickets on one valentine bear, which for some reason people mistakenly believed was flies on shit. Despite this, several people had to be physically restrained from opening The Globe of Two Hundred Live Black Crickets.

The sexual confusion problem was finally solved as for the first time color-coded dots were added to guests’ black hearts tags. Blue for "I want a boy"; red for "I want a girl"; yellow for "Not picky, horny".

On a fascinating side note we learn that for some reason dried and blackened rose petals on a white dance floor make green crud.

At least 12 couples were thrown out of the bathroom by security for trying to have sex.

The Nasty Room is introduced; amateurs were warned to stay away. What happened inside cannot be disclosed.

The four-way on the dance floor.

Yes, there really was a black sheep.