Our House is a very, very very fine house.

The Mosley household made a decision last year to finally sell our tiny (yet beloved) home. We rented a house not too far away in December and moved all our stuff into it. We began renovations right after New Years and had it ready to put on the market by mid February. It sat on the market for about two months before we got a bite, and on June 2nd, it was sold.

The reason we moved out and into a rental was two fold: First, we knew that if the house was empty and immaculate, it would sell a lot easier. Second, and more importantly, living in a rental meant that once the house sold, we could take our sweet time finding a new one. So, as I said, we sold the house on June 2nd. We put an offer on a new one... five days later.


And this is it. That's little C.C. sitting in front. We signed the papers this afternoon and it is now ours. Obviously, we're going to have our hands full for the next month or so as we do some work on the house and then actually move in to the place. More pictures will follow, so stay tuned.

Back to Boston

Follow-ups to great successes are soooo tricky for actors. In terms of The Town, which is Ben Affleck's directorial follow-up to the great Gone Baby Gone, we have two additional follow-ups: John Hamm's first major feature after the success of Mad Men and Jeremy Renner's first film after his starring role in Best Picture Oscar winner The Hurt Locker.

That's quite a pedigree. And thought it may not reach the success of those projects, it sure looks like a hell of a ride.

"Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over."

I tend to buy novelty T-Shirts about once every decade, and here is my latest one:



This is my kind of shirt: Geeky, but not overtly so. The people who don't get it will not give it much thought, and the people who do get it really will get it.

You'll have noticed that posting has been sparse and it will continue to be so. By July 19th, I'll have some big news to convey. Until then, go about your business.

Fake bullets and stuff

In Cardboard...



...And in LEGO.

One year ago today...

... we welcomed little C.C. into the world.


Happy Birthday, little girl.

Samuel L. Jackson Quote of the Month: July 2010

Jackie Brown remains my favorite Quentin Tarantino film, and I know I'm not alone in this opinion. It is a wonderful story that is wonderfully told. Furthermore, I think there's a lot in common between this film and the Coen Brother's No Country For Old Men. Both were made by very unique filmmakers who were, for the first time, adapting someone else's work. Obviously, they had the ability to make changes to the story and characters, but overall they had to work within the confines of the original work, and I think both they and their films benefited from that.

At any rate, this remains possibly the best adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel to film. The dialogue is both poetic and natural (yes, even with all the uses of the N word by Sam's character, Ordell Robbie). The first four lines of the following exchange was used widely in the trailer, but I like the remaining part. It is the classic technique of one character explaining a situation to another who, in essence, is standing in for the audience, yet it doesn't feel nearly as awkward as similar scenes in other films:

Louis: "Who's that?"

Ordell Robbie: "That's Beaumont."

Louis: "Who's Beaumont?"

Ordell Robbie: "An employee I had to let go."

Louis: "What'd he do?"

Ordell Robbie: "He put himself in a position where he was going to have to do ten years in prison, that's what he did. And if you know Beaumont, you know ain't no god damn way he can do ten years. And if you know that, then you know Beaumont's gonna do anything Beaumont can to keep from doing them ten years, including telling the federal government any and every motherfucking thing about my black ass. Now that my friend is a clear cut case of him or me. And you best believe it ain't gonna be me."