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Hercules on the IMDB!

The Internet Movie Database entry for Hercules: The Beginning has been updated!
Click here to see the names of the writers, who just happen to be me and my friend, Kevin Rice, who are writing the screenplay with its producer and star, Alexander Nevsky. Things are moving, and I'll tell you about them in more detail when [...]

All the latest Impact goings-on

A long time ago in a galaxy that looked a lot like Anaheim, my good friend John Mosby took a chance and gave me the gig that turned into a writing career.
Eleven years later I'm still cranking out articles for Impact, the Global Action Entertainment Magazine, which John edits and contributes a massive amount of writing [...]

Hercules … begins!

When I was little, I loved spending the night with my grandparents, Nanny and Pop Vance, in Ramsey, Indiana. While Nanny would cook the best fried chicken ever made, I'd line up all of my Star Wars figures on the kitchen table and tell Pop the story of each and every one of them. And [...]

Up, up, and away!

I know what you're thinking.
Where did everything go?
It's all still right here, but it will soon all be moved here.
You can always find me at …
www.johnbierly.com
… which, by the way, is exactly where you are right now.
I finally decided to take the plunge and host myself.
And now I have to figure out how all of [...]

Conan the Legislator

Two Tuesdays ago, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger brought his Conan sword to a meeting of Sacramento lawmakers and told them he was going to use it to cut the state's budget defecit.

You won't see anything today that's more bad-ass than that.
Source: MSNBC
Oh! And I just realized that when Conan yells "Into the boat!" to his friends [...]

Let's get to work.

Bob hops the Tumblr bus

My good, good buddy Bob has now combined all the best elements of Bob-Net and The Donkey Show into a new, snazzy, snappy home right here on Tumblr.
Check out what he's doing over there. It's smart, funny, timely, and 100% Bob. Which, as those of us who know him know, is a good thing to [...]

1937-2008

Jerry Reed has passed away …
Associated Press: Singer-actor Jerry Reed dies at the age of 71

… and he will be sorely missed.
When I got my first DVD player, one of the first DVDs I got was Smokey and the Bandit.
I had everybody over and we watched it and we laughed at its hilarious, good-natured absurdity.
But [...]

Georgia Bigfoot's a hoax, but don't lose hope

As expected, the idiots in Georgia who claimed they found a dead Bigfoot body have been proven liars and frauds:
Researcher says Bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit
One of the guys is a former Georgia corrections officer, and the other guy is a cop on medical leave.
Well, he WAS a cop:
On Tuesday, Clayton County Police Chief [...]

Bill Murray did indeed jump out of an airplane!

Remember last week, when I told you Bill Murray was going to jump out of a plane over Chicago?
He did it.

Please go here to see tons more photos; there are some amazing and hilarious shots of Bill before, after and even DURING his big jump.
This is even better than the time Tony Wonder baked himself [...]