Regretfully, we're stepping across the border into the Orange Free State where we shall wander largely off line for several weeks. Careful observers may have noticed that we've already been skirting the borderline of Nowhereville for more than a month. Our posts have been few though we've tried as best we can. Sorry.

We'll be back. Can't say exactly when. It's also possible you'll see scattered postings as time and circumstance allows, but it seems appropriate to make this announcement to explain why you've seen little commentary thus far on the current awards season and why you'll see scant if any coverage of the coming Oscar nominations or of the Oscar race in general. Or of South by Southwest. It's not that we're here on the job but doing badly. We're not here. We're hiding out with Winnie Mandela over yonder where the law can't catch us.

Or something.