GG's Winter Break

Update - Watch Egypt news on Al-Jazeera Live, here.

How unpleasant to be under spam & hack attacks. While we sort this out & try to feel better, too, a mini-break. GG & her editor plan to be back in time for Valentine's Day. (Update - we didn't make it back but hope you had a lovely Valentine's Day. Message from GG's editor, here)

For a dose of a great big talented heart, visit Jeff Bridges's fabulous interactive website. Dudes, you will totally feel better. Guaranteed.

ciao-meow/GG's editor

(photograph by Heather Pauline via Rebecca Shley on Pinterest)

Sphinx

GG is sphinx-like today. We're mulling over doings in Darfur & elsewhere. Today, no comment from us but from Don McMullin, the great British photographer.

"It's very difficult to talk about the Spinx because it is so well known.This is a very simple, almost postcard-like image, but nevertheless if you look into it you see more and more. It's extraordinary. This is a remarkable photograph and here it is in this album, hidden away. It deserves a better place in the world really."

[Henri Béchard (active 1870s & 80s); 'Le Sphinx Armachis, Caire' (The Sphinx Armachis, Cairo), about 1880; Albumen print; 21 x 27cm/credit & copyright use. Which some people need desperately to review for their blogs. Seriously.]

Darfur Fast for Life

Outside of Darfur fasting is an option, even a health choice (a pretty dodgy one, actually). It's quite the opposite for those trapped inside Darfur who are out of options. This is it: out of options. We are not messing around now; we're angry.

Here is the Darfur Fast for Life website with links to information. Please also check with Enough Project. Raise holy hell--especially on what is Mother's Day. Can you imagine how these mothers are feeling right now?

A Darfur peace conference in Ethiopia has been cancelled because on Friday night Darfuri leaders were told they would not be allowed to attend. We are almost used to this by now; you may not be. But let's just tell you why this should matter to you...though we can hardly believe we'd have to. Look at a map, locate Sudan, locate where in the world this is, the countries to which it is adjacent. No one wanted to hear about Somalia either, until pirates took an American ship. Don't come to us, we told you a year ago, when the Horn blows back on North America, Europe, elsewhere. A little (enlightened) self-interest is a good thing. Think about it.

[photo courtesy of IRIN: Women recently displaced by fighting in North Darfur have settled in a camp for displaced people in Zamzam, south of El-Fasher/© Heba Aly/IRIN]

a fuming ciao-meow/GG Central