Oh dear. I’m a terrible blogger. I went back to England for a while over the holidays and fell off the map. Sorry everyone. I just had this very un-American need to go underground for a while and re-charge my failing batteries. AJ Schnack who is definitely NOT a terrible blogger recently wrote a post about all the documentary bloggers who fell silent this year. I have to agree with Agnes Varnum (who is also NOT a terrible blogger) that it is often really difficult to find the time when you are also doing other work to pay the bills. But having said that I am also determined to write more regularly in 2009 because I know it is going to be a tough year and I agree with Creative Capital’s Ruby Lerner who recently said that “Now is the time we have to be more ambitious and more audacious.” I feel like I have been in a permanent recession all my life so this is no time to lie down in the snow. If anything, I think that independent filmmakers should be fully prepped for optimism and ingenuity in the face of financial peril!

But before we get down to business and apropo of absolutely nothing (for this is one of the joys of having your own blog), here are some photos of statues of politicians outside Westminster that I took on a bright and freezing day in London just before New Year.