STBD Goes TROMA with Lloyd Kaufman

From L to R: Kevin Ford, Will Guffey, Justin Kownacki, John O'Connor, CrystalAnn, Lloyd Kaufman, The Toxic Avenger and a Chicken Zombie.

If you've heard of The Toxic Avenger, then you know who Lloyd Kaufman is. He's the mastermind -- and we don't use that term lightly -- behind the TROMA films empire. Hitting upon a winning formula 30 years ago -- boobs + blood + comedy -- Kaufman has been responsible for such classics as "Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD," "Tromeo and Juliet" and all of the Toxic Avenger flicks.

Now he's also a satellite member of STBD.

CrystalAnn, one of our new cast members for the upcoming 4th season of Something to Be Desired, was also recently in a film called "Meat for Satan's Icebox," which TROMA picked up for distribution. When Lloyd Kaufman came to Pittsburgh to promote the release of the new Toxic Avenger novel (!), CrystalAnn pitched him on the idea of making a cameo on STBD and he accepted. The rest, as they say, is history... or it will be, once the footage is edited.

That sequence will be used as a trailer for our fourth season later this summer. In the meantime, we'll just bask in the glory of standing THIS CLOSE to the man who shepherded a film called "Poultrygeist" to the big screen.