Wait, maybe I'm not that lazy.

That ghostbuster costume—which includes a flight suit, Arduino-controlled proton pack, fake trap, and fake goggles—was all made over months of planning and hard work.

My Wolverine costume—battered leather jacket, t-shirt, jeans, dirty just-woke-up hair, scars, and some beard trimming—took an entire life of suffering and bleeding to create.

(By the way, anyone knows where I could buy the actual Wolverine jacket replica in NYC? Let's do this stupid thing properly). [Instructables via Dvice]

Available at Busted Tees for $17, Ghost Catcher explores the lengths that a gluttonous and brutal carnivore will go to for a snack of psychokinetic energy. I have no idea what's caused the sudden surge in Pac-Man/Ghostbusters crossbranded apparel, but you know what? I couldn't trace the impetus of putting peanut butter and jelly together for the first time, either. Let's just roll with it, see where these shirts take us. [Busted Tees via Fashionably Geek]

Available now at Glennz Tees, Called For Help explores what might happen if Pac-Man could resist his binging for long enough to call the (fictional?) 1-800 number that most of us keep on speed dial.

Printed on a high quality (American Apparel) tee, the shirt can be yours for about $20 in every size known to man (and women). [Glennnz Tees via OhGizmo!]

The parallels this movie shares with present day society are worth mentioning, too. We have a crumbling society, a bumbling leader promising to "fight the darkness," and a reliance on technology to make the world go, literally. Plus, there's Bill Murray. And then there are the blackouts, due to the failing generator, that serve as the catalyst to get our protagonists searching for a way out of Ember.

SFGate was impressed, and said so in a glowing review.

"City of Ember" has an emotional impact that goes way beyond a clever metaphor. In an early scene, a chipper young messenger (Saoirse Ronan) is making her way through the town square when the generator stalls again - and this time for longer than ever before. The people are so relieved, and so willing to believe that maybe it won't happen again, that the moment is touching. It's also rather touching that their world is such a pathetic echo of real civilization, that their sky is just a bunch of light bulbs and that their religion has something to do with waiting for "the builders" to return. Yet they want to hold on to what they have.

Oh, and there's also a monster, but we only catch a glimpse of it in the trailer. Perhaps it's Dick Cheney? Ember is basically a secret underground bunker, after all. [SFGate]

The pack's beam creates a powerful recoil, and has damaging effects on material, usually combing to create extensive collateral damage. Early attempts to power the pack by wall current resulted in melted wiring. Instead, the pack is powered by...

an unlicensed mass of nuclear material with a half life of 5,000 years. Should the power source reach a critical thermal state, the resulting blast would affect half a square block.

The wand has controls for beam intensity, length, and polarization levels, with a maximum frequency adjustable to 500,000 Mhz. Crossing the streams from one or more wands was initially discouraged, as it was believed that "total protonic reversal" would occur; this effect would have catastrophic results, namely "the end of all life as we know it, and every molecule in one's body exploding at the speed of light." –Brian Lam

Proton Pack [Wikipedia]
HOW TO - Make a Ghostbuster costume (and accessories) [Make]