Weekly Flâneur: Hidden

Image of a garden and cozy home through a fence. Click to enlarge.

Secret garden by the seaside.

Beautiful home in Brighton, UK. 

Friday QuoteDay: Harry Potter Edition

Via http://rereadingharry.tumblr.com

We Americans do love our hugs. 

Weekly Flâneur: Framed

Image of two policemen kissing, put behind a glass frame. Click to enlarge.

Street art by Banksy, Brighton, UK.

Art is for everyone.

Friday QuoteDay

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”

— Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Weekly Flâneur: Flight

Large canvas image of seagulls at beach. Taken with permission of seller. Artist unknown. Click to enlarge.

Brighton Beach, UK 

Your favorite flâneur is off in the clouds with the seagulls. 

 See you soon.

Friday QuoteDay

“Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a compliment. To me, a bitch is assertive, unapologetic, demanding, intimidating, intelligent, fiercely protective, in control—all very positive attributes. But it’s not supposed to be a compliment, because there’s that old, stupid double standard: When men are aggressive and dominant, they are admired, but when a woman possesses those same qualities, she is dismissed and called a bitch.” 

— Margaret Cho, actress, comedian and activist. 

Weekly Flâneur: Bright

Image of Brighton Pier. Click to enlarge.

"It's always ourselves we find in the sea."

Brighton Pier, East Sussex UK.

Happy June, my loves! 

Friday QuoteDay

"Don’t be ‘a writer.’ Be writing."

— William Faulkner, American novelist

 

Weekly Flâneur: Self

Image of a hand, pen, paper and cup. Click to enlarge.

Tools of survival. 

Random Starbucks, somewhere in London.

Bad Writing Habits #1

Internet Research.

Research starts out as a productive necessity. It somehow takes a wrong turn on the Interwebs Super Highway and 3 hours later I'm 5 tabs deep into Wikipedia and Cracked links. If I open YouTube, I'm done.

(I would like to lie and say that my writing has improved this sad week without Internet, but I love my readers too much for that. Only socially acceptable little white lies for y'all! Also, two Time Warner Cable trucks and two weeks later, still no working Internet. If you ever wanted to guest blog on FitC, email me now. My poor, sad blog is desperate for loving posts and beautiful images, and I'll happily schedule both during the brief times I bum WiFi from friends and strangers.)

My Apologies

Poor FitC has had a rough couple of weeks, eh?

First, I caught some sort of plague that knocked me out for a week, followed by the big Blogger Combustion of 2011, and now? Casa de Chaos, my current residence, has been without Internet access for an obscene amount of time. (Bless the WiFi of dear Mr. B for this post.) Forget the rapture; being without my only addiction (Internet Forever!) has been a personal apocalypse!

Bear with me, y'all, and know that I will not abandon you. So don't abandon me.  Deal?

Friday QuoteDay

“Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.” 

—  Zora Neale Hurston, American author during the Harlem Renaissance

Weekly Flâneur: Shining

Bikes, boats, and beautiful buildings in Amsterdam. Click to enlarge.

Let's shine together. 

Canal in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Beauty and the Beast

Three things:

1.) Y'all know I would never willingly spill a drink.
2.) Why, yes, I am 30 years old.
3.) It took longer to add the stupid URL after I scanned it then it did to draw it. (Drawing time: Exactly 8 minutes, the time it took my microwave vegetarian lasagna to heat.)

Blogger Bummers

As you may have noticed, FitC's platform Blogger has been on the fritz for a couple of days now. A few posts disappeared, but since I was out of commission most of the week, there wasn't much to miss.

Blogger Buzz has this to say:

"Here’s what happened: during scheduled maintenance work Wednesday night, we experienced some data corruption that impacted Blogger’s behavior. Since then, bloggers and readers may have experienced a variety of anomalies including intermittent outages, disappearing posts, and arriving at unintended blogs or error pages. A small subset of Blogger users (we estimate 0.16%) may have encountered additional problems specific to their accounts. Yesterday we returned Blogger to a pre-maintenance state and placed the service in read-only mode while we worked on restoring all content: that’s why you haven’t been able to publish.  We rolled back to a version of Blogger as of Wednesday May 11th, so your posts since then were temporarily removed. Those are the posts that we’re in the progress of restoring."

Hopefully all is well again, and FitC will be back in top form next week. Overall, Blogger has been good to me, and I will continue to use and support it.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled David Bowie lust:

Friday QuoteDay

“When a man gives his opinion he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion she’s a bitch.” 

— Bette Davis, American actress

Weekly Flâneur: Waiting

Image of a pigeon soaking up the sun. Click to enlarge.

Pigeons and people really do have much in common.

Empty chairs and lone pigeon, Covent Garden, London.