Mission Statement: HardcoreNerdity is passionate and driven to provide the highest quality of science fiction and fantasy news entertainment based on over fifty years of combined experience in television production, business, and digital media. Our goal is to be the trusted source for our audience to rely on for their entertainment and genre-related product needs and connecting them to one another through our social network. HardcoreNerdity melds passion and production to satisfy our users' needs and is committed to creating a fun, safe, and interactive environment that encourages like-minded people to connect and share.
Why: To create an online media source for science fiction horror and fantasy fans across North America and the World. The site will provide exclusive interviews with science fiction/fantasy writers, producers, actors and directors. Behind the scenes access to production and post-production of film, tv, comics, and video games. This is not popcorn media. What HardcoreNerdity provides is in-depth coverage for fans who want more, need more, and demand more from their media providers. Other social networks exist to connect as many people together as possible. HardcoreNerdity uses this function and enhances it to provide users with all the information and entertainment they need and links them to other users who want the same thing. HardcoreNerdity brings together groups of people who make sci-fi/fantasy a part of their lifestyle and provides them with a place to interact, exchange ideas, information and create forums, event groups and blogs.
Please feel free to leave a suggestion or comment on how we can make the network more entertaining and valuable for you.
Sincerely, the HCN team
TV and Film Expert and Lead Nerd
So, for several years, Jonathan Llyr appeared weekly on the cult TV show SPACEBAR as Grot, the loveably clueless alien barfly cum barkeep. Jon's subsequent stint as host, reporter and interviewer for HYPASPACE and HYPASPACE WEEKLY put him in close contact with stars like Patrick Stewart, Andy Serkis, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, David Hayter, Jolene Blalock, George Takei, Tricia Helfer, Steven Spielberg and many others. Heading out into strange, new worlds with The Hardcore Nerdity Network is his latest challenge. Warning: Jonathan Llyr fell to earth, presumably from outer-space and may stick to certain types of skin. Don't taunt Jonathan Llyr. If you see smoke coming from Jonathan Llyr, move to a safe distance and cover head.
Entertainment Editor and PR Liaison
Movies, dvds, interviews, scheduling, liason with the outside media houses, plus feature writer and all round pistol! The sexiest, most well rounded of the HcN team, the one who drinks everyone elses when they're not looking and never pays...Ever.
Senior TV and Film Correspondent
Rob Salem is a veteran journalist, broadcaster, pop-culture pundit and self-avowed chronic fanboy geek. In addition to more than a quarter century as columnist, critic and feature writer for the Toronto Star, he has hosted his own daily radio show, and currently a weekly cable cult movie showcase. He also teaches a post-grad college course, and is several chapters into an anecdotal autobiography, But Enough About Me . . . My Life Among The Stars. (note: removing Rob Salem from his original packaging will reduce value).
TV, Film and Literature Correspondent
Adrienne is an actress and author (Alex and the Ironic Gentleman, Timothy and the Dragon's Gate) which makes her perfectly placed as your HCN correspondent covering all things tv/film and literature. A film and televisual programming uber geek, she enjoys sharing her opinions about said media in great detail. She has a penchant for dark comedy, character driven plotlines, awesome action-ness, and Admiral Adama � though she will happily watch almost anything of the celluloid variety. Being also deeply entrenched in the world of literature, she has strong opinions about that medium as well. She has strong opinions in general. Adrienne is fully poseable and comes with her own camper-van and removeable helmet.
Literature and Fantasy Correspondent
Lesley Livingston is a writer, actor and unrepentant egghead with a masters degree in Nerdology. Her first novel, Wondrous Strange by Harper Collins is out now in a bookstore near you! Lesley is HcN's resident Fantasy Geek. Lesley is endless fun.
HcN Correspondent
When Joe is not writing television, movies and comics, like Robocop: Prime Directives and Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, he's writing _about_ television, movies and comics for magazines like Fangoria and Rue Morgue.
When he's not doing any of these things, he's producing and directing short films, experimenting with visual effects design and dabbling in digital illustration.
Joe is also easily distracted by shiny objects.
Web/Graphic Designer, HcN Correspondent
Joanna likes to make things look neat and pretty in cyberspace, and wishes the same could be said about her apartment. She is a nerd with blessedly uber-geeky parents who raised her on C.S. Lewis, Madelein L'Engle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, Star Trek, Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Having fulfilled her dream to become the 50 Ft. Tall Woman, she is currently considering becoming the next Xena Warrior Princess, or Wonder Woman. She hasn't decided which yet. She is also accepting submissions for a sidekick.
Technical Guru
With nothing but a screen, keyboard and a cold beer, Chris can throw together a program to count fish (which is awesome). Combined with his love for all things nerdy, Chris does what he can to count fish for HcN. ...Oh...and to remind everyone that Q is the man God.
GeekU Correspondent
A raging fanthropologist at heart, JM Frey blogs about aca!fans both well known and on the rise, programmes where scholars can geek to their heart's content, and interesting bits of news from the aca!fan realm.
Follow HCN's "Geek U" podcasts here, and her professional and academic writing here at Sci Frey. Or, read her novella (Back) here.
HcN Correspondent "Down Unda"
Nadine is a lover of all things heroic and has a fierce loyalty to the stories that pluck at her various heartstrings. She loves fantasy, space adventures, and yo-yos. She can be found playing video games (Halo forever!) and regularly re-watches her Farscape dvds and re-reads her Conan novels. What can be said...when she likes something, she likes it. For stuff that tickles the senses and delights the grey matter look no further than her Wee Corner O'Fun...because there will be...fun that is...heaps of it. If its good, Nadine was somehow involved.
Films and Fighting Correspondent
Casey Hudecki is an actress, and certified FDC stage combat instructor. Her experience with action stunts and scenes gives her the edge when dissecting the good, the bad, and the ugly from Hollywood. Please don't hurt us Casey! (note: Casey Hudecki is powered by an atomic battery expected to last over 10,000,000,000 years)
Science Correspondent
Doctor K has had a lifelong love affair with all things science and space related. His earliest memories are of a first grade library book called 'You Will Go ToThe Moon' in which a young boy accompanies an astronaut crew aboard a Saturn 5 rocket on its way to visit the first human base on the moon. Though his schooling and travels took him far and away from the nuts and bolts of space science, his heart has always held a place for it. He always observes with wonder at the amazing and sometimes frightening discoveries that are unleashed almost every day, somewhere in the world. And he always keeps in the back of his mind, that in the larger scheme of things, in the length and breadth of the universe, we humans are but one microscopic particle, but also blessed with an unending ability to imagine.
