JeffStrand

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  1. JeffStrand

    Episode 248

    I loved hearing Darryll talk himself from the-movie-wasn't-very-good into a four-star review.
  2. JeffStrand

    Episode 246

    Okay, tonight I'm renting THE DIVIDE from Amazon Video on Demand entirely because of your review! It better be good!!! --Jeff
  3. Yes, I have sucked at creating new episodes of my Dread Media Presents: Gleefully Macabre podcast, even though they're only, like, seven minutes long. But part of my lame excuse is that I've been working on a new novel, and it's available NOW! (Unless you hate e-books. Then it's available later.) It's the fourth book in my series of horror/comedy novels featuring Andrew Mayhem. If you liked GRAVEROBBERS WANTED (NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY) and/or SINGLE WHITE PSYCHOPATH SEEKS SAME and/or CASKET FOR SALE (ONLY USED ONCE), then you might like this one, too. Available from Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/6n4rujb And Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/118361
  4. JeffStrand

    Episode 220

    Your kids totally upstaged me.
  5. Easily one of the top five episodes so far!
  6. Thanks, Master! What does everybody else think of the length? I have no plans to turn this into a full-length podcast, and I like that it doesn't require more of a time commitment than a YouTube video. But there's also the chance that people will decide that a six-minute podcast isn't even worth putting on their iPod! --Jeff
  7. At least I know Episode Five won't be late! --Jeff
  8. Thanks, Des! Koete, you won't be a poor college student forever! The time to start planning for WHC 2012 in Salt Lake City is NOW! To those listening, what do you think of episodes where I read short stories? Yea or nay? --Jeff
  9. Thanks, everyone! I won't be recording my Stokers acceptance speech because a) I'm not going to win, and b) if I did I would just babble incoherently for a few seconds and then stumble off the stage. However, I AM the Master of Ceremonies this year, so I'll be recording my opening monologue and it'll be a Very Special Episode of the Gleefully Macabre podcast. --Jeff
  10. JeffStrand

    Episode 135

    Thoughtful answer to serious literary question coming tomorrow...
  11. JeffStrand

    Episode 135

    Yeah, that was very awkward. Desmond's tears...his blubbering of "Yes! Yes! Oh, yes, a million times yes!"...him dragging Megan into the room and saying "Do you want me to send her away? Because if you'll have me, I'll pack her things right now! No, I won't even pack them--I'll throw her out immediately and hire a moving service! Please, please, please tell me your proposal wasn't just a joke?" We had two beautiful days together, but unfortunately, I decided that I just couldn't commit to watching all of those chick flicks on Married to the Movies. --Jeff
  12. As revealed in Episode 128, I will be the guest co-host of an upcoming episode of Dread Media. Though he'll be asking me some horror-related and writing-related questions, this will also be my opportunity to turn the tables! The interviewER will become the interviewEE! How will Desmond perform under pressure? Does he REALLY know the horror genre in and out? Find out by sending any questions you'd like me to ask Mr. Reddick (and no, I won't share them with him beforehand) to JeffStrand@aol.com. --Jeff www.JeffStrand.com
  13. JeffStrand

    Episode 124

    The Severed Nose is not an homage to Gogol's story, but it could have been if I'd been aware of it, since they both start out with the discovery of a severed nose. Somebody asked me the same question when I first announced my book, and I pulled up the story online and immediately thought "Oh, crap! I'll never be able to claim that a story written in 1835 ripped me off!" Fortunately, the stories veer off in completely different directions. Ironically, the cover and interior illustrations of The Severed Nose feature "humanized" noses, which don't appear in the actual book (the severed nose is just a regular ol' severed nose) and would be more appropriate for Gogol's story, in which the nose can talk and move. By the way, if you don't think that 1835 Russian literature about noses can be awesome, here's an excerpt: Ivan Yakovlevitch donned a jacket over his shirt for politeness' sake, and, seating himself at the table, poured out salt, got a couple of onions ready, took a knife into his hand, assumed an air of importance, and cut the roll open. Then he glanced into the roll's middle. To his intense surprise he saw something glimmering there. He probed it cautiously with the knife — then poked at it with a finger. “Quite solid it is!” he said to himself. “What in the world is it likely to be?” He stuck in his fingers, and pulled out — a nose! .. His hands dropped to his sides for a moment. Then he rubbed his eyes hard. Then again he probed the thing. A nose! Sure enough a nose! Yes, and one familiar to him, somehow! Oh, horror spread upon his feature! Yet that horror was a trifle compared with his spouse's overmastering wrath. “You brute!” she shouted frantically. “Where have you cut off that nose? You villain, you! You drunkard! Why, I'll go and report you to the police myself. You brigand, you! I have already heard from three men that, while shaving them, your pulled their noses to the point that they could hardly stand it.” --Jeff www.JeffStrand.com