Awesome stuff: Martin Scorsese scored his second Golden Globe Award, Best Director for "The Departed". Looks like he may finally bring home the Oscar. The sixth try may be the charm.

Yes, I love Scorsese. Sue me.

(Image courtesy of Martin Scorsese.net)

Welcome to our first ever Blog-In theater.

Thanks to the treasure trove of public domain movies I have found on Video.Google, I am going to make it a point for us to have a saturday matinées at the blog.

This is similar to what I have started at culturekitchen. Over there though, I can run a chat (you need to be a member to participate). Over here what we can do is do a "live-commenting" event Sunday afternoon ... OR ... if you are on AIM, we can do a chat using that and then posting the results on the site.

Back to the movie.

This is the original eco-terrorist and nuclear mutant-freak Godzilla; not the saviour of Japan reinvented in the 1960s. It has a very young Raymond Burr as, Steve Martin (the irony!) the American documentarian of this iguanadonian catastrophe. It oozes post-WW2 cheeziness through each reel hole.

Tonight is the third night of Walkathon Week, leading up to the DDDB Walkathon to raise money for the legal fight against corrupt overdevelopment in the heart of Brooklyn. Here are today's events:

10/18: Wednesday Night is Literary Night II: 7:30 pm

Tillies - 248 DeKalb Ave, corner of Vanderbilt. 718-783-6140

Donation suggested.

* Authors: Jhumpa Lahiri
* Jennifer Egan
* Susan Choi
* Sheri Holman
* Diana Son

10/18: Wednesday Night is Movie Night II: 7:30 pm
Donation suggested.

Soda Bar - 629 Vanderbilt Ave., between Prospect Place and St Marks Avenue

This Land is Your Land with filmmakers
A feature length, 82-minute, documentary film
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND is a startling and often hilarious exploration of the overwhelming corporate takeover of American life. Over the course of three years, the filmmakers traveled across the U.S., interviewing award-winning authors, historians, media commentators and ordinary citizens about the wide range of ways individuals and society at large experience this impact. More...

Post Film DJ Motormouth Performs

Via DailyKos comes this hilarious mockumentary on those lice of the internets, rightie bloggers, also known as the 101st Fighting Keyboarders.

You really do have to wonder what keeps these guys - and with a few notable exceptions, such as Michelle Maglalang Malkin, the illegal immigrant anchor baby, they are all guys - tethered to their keyboards when there's a real war to be fought. Perhaps it's just their love of Cheetos; perhaps it's because they're lily-livered cowards who would run away from a real fight.

But do check out the movie, sure to spark howls, or maybe merely sputterings, of outrage across the wingersphere.

www.warofthewords.net