Look, I drink. Thankfully, drinking usually leads to some of my best ideas. One of those ideas came about a month ago, when, drunkenly Stumbling through the internet, I came across a knitted Mega Man helmet. As soon as I saw it, I knew A) I had to have it, and B) I would be dressing up as Mega Man for Halloween. So, I rang up my mother (an expert knitter, and somewhat good video game knitter), sent her the instructions for said helmet, and, a week later, I was sent this in the mail:



Needless to say, I was excited. I has an awesome, warm-as-shit cap to wear around, as well as the beginning of my Halloween costume. Next up was the Mega Buster. At my house, I has a rather large flashlight that no one was using, so, I thought about doing something with that. Wrapping it in fabric seemed lame, and same with construction paper (I work on a budget, people). The, a thought came to me; PVC piping. I could probably find some sort of pipe to enclose around the flashlight to get a Mega-Buster-like quality. So, heading out to my neighborhood Lowes, I found the perfect assortment of pipe segments, along with duct tape and sprat paint to finish off the weapon. After 15 minutes of hard labor, and 1 hour letting the paint dry, I was left with this:



I have to say, I've never been more proud of a costume as what I had been coming up with here. The hat was perfect, the buster was spot-on, and clothing would be easy to come by, thanks to Goodwill.

Then a few weeks ago, some bastard named craineum had to come in and steal all my thunder by not only creating the greatest Mega Man costume ever, but making it for his cute-as-balls son. By comparison, I thought, my costume isn't gonna be worth anything. But, I soldiered on ahead, finding the rest of the accouterments necessary, and, though I may not be as precious as a 5-year-old, here's Pendelton as Mega Man:



My body is made up of a Red Vs. Blue hoodie, turned inside-out, with a light-blue shirt I got from a program I was in in high school. The pants are blue-dyed underwear worn over a pair of light-blue sweatpants I found at Goodwill.



Now, yes, my camera-phone pics are terrible quality, and the colors look a bit off, but, trust me, in person, the "suit" is perfect.

When it all comes together, I think it's pretty damn spectacular. And, sure, it didn't take me 30 hours to make, and come with a vast, complicated array of LEDs and wiring, but, when I'm getting plastered Friday night as Mega Man, it's not really gonna matter.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!!!