Well you know my name is Batthew, and I like to do drawrings

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Yes the title is a reference to an obscure Mike Myers SNL character, but it’s true, I like to do drawrings. I drew a lot as a kid, but I fell off with it in my late 20s. One of my 2026 resolutions is to finally got back on the wagon. I’ve always loved to idly doodle silly bullshit and cartoon characters, and it’s been fun to ramp up production on that front:

But now with so many powerful digital tools at my fingertips, I want to take it a step further and get more comfortable with color, lighting, and texture:

Drawing fucked up little weirdos is it’s own reward, but I’m also (VERY SLOWLY LOL) working up to producing comics and tabletop RPG art.

What comics? I’m tentatively calling it KAIJU STORY. I’ve spent a lifetime obsessing over and daydreaming about big monsters, and I want to tear that obsession and those daydreams out of my rotten brain and mash them into a cohesive world of characters I can share with fellow creature feature freaks. It’s uh, taking a long time! I’ve had to roll it around in my skull for a solid 20 years, but it’s finally taking shape.

What tabletop RPG? I’ve been playing nothing but Pathfinder 2nd Edition for the last few years and fucking LOVING it. Naturally I want to start knocking out player character portraits for the games I play in and run, but I’m also developing a homebrew setting. Magical Dumbasses Fight the Power combines Mad Max style vehicular insanity with the slobs vs. snobs ethos of 80s Hollywood comedies. It’s Lord of the Rings by way of The Fast and the Furious, and I can’t wait to see how my players go apeshit with it.

I ain’t dead yet!

Jason Goes to Hell… eventually

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I didn’t start seeking out and enjoying horror films until I was in high school. As a littler guy I was scared PRETTY EASILY and didn’t see how choosing to be scared could possibly be fun. But I’ve always loved monsters and creatures and stuff, so to test my child-mettle I’d at least peek at the horror section at our local video store (the long gone but not forgotten Video Tree, thank you Ernie, wherever you are!). The box for Jason Goes to Hell was a standout:

The VHS sleeve was embossed so that Jason’s chromed-out mask (sick, BTW) and his demonic butt-worm popped out from the box. In 1993 I had certainly not seen any Fridays the 13th, but I more or less knew who Jason was through pop culture osmosis and, well, the huge crazy furious man in a hockey mask hacking people’s limbs off in the woods was pretty goddamn scary to me. So seeing that Jason was titularly Going to Hell, I assumed the movie would chronicle his gruesome demise and subsequent journey through the the realms of Hell. I imagined Jason’s Divine Comedy being a sort of reverse-slasher film, where the forces of Satan would chase, torture and terrorize Jason as ironic punishment for his decades of malice. “What a crazy, bold vision for the final entry in a slasher series!” kid me thought.

When I finally sat down to watch it years later I figured I wouldn’t get to see Jason wading through lakes of fire and dodging devils. And I was right! Jason Goes to Hell is basically “what if Jason was The Evil Dead” and that’s pretty cool too.

More years passed, and my OTHER favorite psychotic rage monster DID have an honest-to-Satan underworld odyssey:

As always, thank Godzilla for Godzilla.

Oozetoberfest 2025 Watch List

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We’re practically into September which means it’s Halloween Season (FOR ME PERSONALLY)!

This Spooktober I have dubbed Oozetoberfest! I’m catching up on horror movies and creature features that I’ve never seen, both vintage and hot off the 2025 presses. This year I’ve got a sub-focus on slimes, blobs, oozes, and melting. Also featuring brains and aliens and alien brains and brain aliens! Brailiens? Oh, and say hi to David Cronenberg, he’s in the back with the snacks and the cooler. We’re havin’ fun. Letterboxd link if you want to slop it up Batt Scare-It style this Oozetoberfest!

‘S gonna be a real GOOSHY one

The Evil Dead: still the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror

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Evil Dead II (and Ash vs Evil Dead) will always be my favorite installment(s) of the Evil Dead franchise, but Jesus fuckin’ Christ the original film is a singular masterpiece of supernatural terror.

Dark forests and dank cellars, soul-crushing isolation, the skin-crawling feeling of being watched, inexplicable paranormal weirdness, disembodied and unfamiliar voices calling to you, demon possession, the undead, warp-speed bodily rot and decay, the iron claw of madness wringing the sanity from your mind, your senses betraying you, unspeakable acts of flesh-shredding violence, inhuman things that look and sound just like your dearest loved ones torturing you physically and emotionally… This movie feasts on every fear in the collective unconscious and burns into your brain forever thanks to Sam Raimi’s visionary story and direction, Bruce Campbell’s vulnerable and authentic performance, and the unflinching, gruesomely spectacular, horrifyingly inventive gore/makeup/special effects.

On the rare occasion I have a nightmare that isn’t a mundane anxiety dream, it looks and feels almost exactly like The Evil Dead. Lo-fi, herky-jerky, cloudy-eyed, gut-splattering, jittering, skittering grimy greasiness that feels real in spite of (or even because of??) its brain-breaking surrealism. Its like the good Dr. Stantz once said:

As deep, furious, and mysterious as the sea itself: 70 Years of Godzilla

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Godzilla, when taken as a single fictional entity over his 70 year career (and especially on rewatching Minus One), I think you could argue is a personification of the ocean itself. Impossibly huge, indestructible, invincible, unthinkably strong, crashing down on anyone caught in its path, washing away everything from the smallest insect to entire landmasses. It can be a savior to humanity or it can be humanity’s cruelest, most bloodthirsty executioner. He defeats all challengers, even if it takes ages for him to wake back up after his last war. Sometimes he wages war on us, other times on things that threaten us.

He is unknowable, his motivations fluid and alien to our landlubbing monkey minds. He will die, resurrect, mutate, and evolve forever: he was here before humanity and will go on for eons after we die out. Human intervention turned a fierce but fair nature spirit into a wrathful, radioactive demon hellbent on decimating the warring, polluting human race.

The humanist themes of Godzilla Minus One are a balm for the bleak, chaotic, violent times we live in. The world is better with you in it, even if you don’t agree or believe it. You can survive disaster and grow again after. Each of us is like Godzilla in that way: when tragedy strikes or when life takes a painful turn, we too can resurrect, evolve, and survive… even if it takes longer than we hope. For all the havok it can wreak, the Earth would be worse without the ocean, and it would be worse without you.

Batt Scare-It’s Mutant Menagerie

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I started making spooky trap beats and some other simple stuff in BandLab. The app has some really cool looper packs that I’ve been playing around with. I’m just barely dipping my toe into actually writing melodies for virtual instruments, but after years of being intimidated by music it’s really exciting to finally tear some ideas out of my head and make them into something (mostly) listenable. Take a listen!

MONSTROMETRY

John Carpenter, eat your heart out. WAIT JOHN NOT LITERALLY! OH NO! NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

EXTREME G

In the future, no one can drive 55.

RAT NIGHT

In Japan it’s called Giant Horde Beast Nezura.

It’s not all spooky beats and satanic techno though! I was able to cook up some metal and even a little blues!

DRIVE HOME AFTER DARK

The polar opposite of Extreme G. Just ridin’ home.

If you like those, be sure to check out the whole menagerie!

Save Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum!

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Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum is an insanely cool collection of vintage and antique animatronics, pinball machines, arcade cabinets, penny-arcades, nickelodeons, and a million other creepy-cool-crazy old coin-op contraptions from yesteryear. It’s a one-of-a-kind exhibit and I love that it’s right here in Michigan. Here are a couple local news stories that sum up this delightful slice of mechanized whimsy and automated buffoonery:

If that sounds cool to you, please consider signing the petition on change.org. As a fellow believer in the positive power of silliness, I’ll end with a quote from the late founder of the Marvelous Mechanical Museum:

“Wouldn’t the world be better off if we took nonsense more seriously?”

Marvin Yagoda

OOZEPUNK

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WHAT IS OOZEPUNK?

Oozepunk is the term I’m coining for the microgenre of urban heroic sci-fi horror-fantasy that first exploded in the mid-80s with movies, shows, and comics like Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Toxic Avenger, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hellboy, Street Sharks, and others. Lots of natural crossover with Biopunk and Cyberpunk, aesthetically and philosophically.

Your childhood trauma didn’t let you forget Roger Rabbit heavily featured colorful nightmare slime, did it?
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Mario Kart 8 – Booster Course Pack Wave 6 Speculation/Obsessing

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Work was slow today so naturally my mind drifted to Mario Kart. I’ve always loved the Mario Kart games, but for my money Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the new gold standard for the entire kart-racing genre. It just FEELS SO GOOD to drive these goofy little contraptions around and blow up your friends in psychedelic cartoon worlds.

Booster Course Pack Wave 5 just dropped this week and I’m loving this shit. Squeaky Clean Sprint?! KAMEK?!

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This unholy union?!

Of course as awesome as this stuff is, I can’t help but think about that one last wave of goodies we’re getting at the end of the year. At the very least we know we’re getting two new drivers and 8 new-old courses (with 1 or 2 possibly being brand new), but at this point Nintendo hasn’t announced any specifics.

It’s fun to guess and speculate though! Since we’re only guaranteed 2 new drivers (and there’s a smaller pool to pull from), I started there.

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“Separating the Art from the Ectoplasm”

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The Ghostbusters are called in to deal with one of the most famous and thematically-appropriate ghosts: the restless spirit of the massively influential innovator of literary horror, H.P. Lovecraft.

EXT. THE QUAD, MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY – NIGHT

The gaseous, glowing ghost of H.P. LOVECRAFT looms over all four Ghostbusters, stretching and twisting to impossible proportions, tentacles and antennae slithering out of him like growing shadows. A dry, howling, unnatural wind swirls through the Quad.

LOVECRAFT
CHATTERING INTERBREEDERS! FOUL, GUFFAWING APES! I WILL CLEANSE–

VENKMAN
Yeesh, who knew Poe was such a dick?

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