I recognize this guy!
Check out the other cosplay photos from Convergence — in particular, the Skepchicks were impressive in their Orange is the New Black outfits.
I didn’t cosplay at all, I’m afraid. I wore my lab coat. Strangely, when I had to make a run for supplies to the nearby Whole Foods, they were giving out goodie bags to all the Convergence attendees in costume — and they gave me one! I was just in my work clothes!
Maybe I should do something next year. The 2015 Convergence theme is dystopias, and our party theme is “The Deep”, featuring ocean decor and flurries of cephalopods…I could probably come up with something at the intersection of those two.
On the other hand, Kyle was at Whole Foods with me, and got the same goodie bag for his effort that I got for throwing on a lab coat, so what’s the point?
I don’t.
I liked the Windigo from Hannibal. I didn’t know that character had a name. I just thought it was one of Will’s “dream” representations of Lector.
The Convergence theme is dystopias? I should cosplay as President Rand Paul.
Next year, PZ, you can just take off the human face-mask. It’s not like it really fools anyone anyway. ;p
Take off the pants and sport some whitey tighties with that lab coat.
Naughty PZ! You know you shouldn’t be wearing your lab coat outside of the lab! [Has a distinct look of hypocritical guilt in eyes.]
I don’t work with infectious or toxic agents, so it’s ok.
Hmm….I work at times with Safebridge category 3 compounds. Nope, I wouldn’t take a labcoat from working on those compounds anywhere in public. But I do have a clean one still unopened.
You could go as Octodad.
Well, obviously, the Whole Foods employee was an atheist, and thought you were simply wearing a really well-done PZ Myers costume.
I’m always seriously impressed with the amount of effort that so many people put into making costumes and associated props in order to dress up at these things.
PZ, you could always get a lab coat like this. Combine with some goggles and an old-fashioned surgical mask and voila!
I like the Darth Shakespeare,
although it’s a missed opportunity… could have been Darthtagnan
Gosh, that gentleman sure is handsome.
You should know better than to run in your lab coat in a shop where food is served. If I did that at our local cafeteria, I would have been out in no time :-) But then, I work at an institute for infection biology, so maybe there is that…
Dystopias in The Deep? Sounds like Bioshock cosplay to me.
A Big Daddy costume would be perfectly fitting, but I don’t have the talent to make it. Go simpler.
Maybe they thought you were an anonymous attendee cosplaying as “P Z Myers”?
Thanks, Frank McCormick.
I now know, with certainty, what my outfit will be if I ever attend one of these.