Anne Denoon
@annedenoon.bsky.social
Crone, malcontent, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
You all know what this day it is. #Caturday
Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth
Sleeping Cat with Christmas Tree
early 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
#MerryCaturday 🐈⬛ #MerryChristmas 🎄
Sleeping Cat with Christmas Tree
early 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
#MerryCaturday 🐈⬛ #MerryChristmas 🎄
December 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
You all know what this day it is. #Caturday
A house with decorative frescos and satellite dishes in #Genoa
[likely not painted on wet plaster, so not true frescos (?) but anyway...]📷by me, 2017
#FrescoFriday #Italy
[likely not painted on wet plaster, so not true frescos (?) but anyway...]📷by me, 2017
#FrescoFriday #Italy
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A house with decorative frescos and satellite dishes in #Genoa
[likely not painted on wet plaster, so not true frescos (?) but anyway...]📷by me, 2017
#FrescoFriday #Italy
[likely not painted on wet plaster, so not true frescos (?) but anyway...]📷by me, 2017
#FrescoFriday #Italy
Reposted by Anne Denoon
December 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What a profile! (The zebra's isn't bad, either.) 🎨
Lucian Freud
The Painter's Room, 1944
oil on canvas; private collection
Lucian Freud
The Painter's Room, 1944
oil on canvas; private collection
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
What a profile! (The zebra's isn't bad, either.) 🎨
Lucian Freud
The Painter's Room, 1944
oil on canvas; private collection
Lucian Freud
The Painter's Room, 1944
oil on canvas; private collection
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Boris Anrep, 1883-1969
Christmas Pudding
floor mosaic, c.1928-33
The National Gallery, London
#MosaicMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas 🎄🎨
Christmas Pudding
floor mosaic, c.1928-33
The National Gallery, London
#MosaicMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas 🎄🎨
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Boris Anrep, 1883-1969
Christmas Pudding
floor mosaic, c.1928-33
The National Gallery, London
#MosaicMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas 🎄🎨
Christmas Pudding
floor mosaic, c.1928-33
The National Gallery, London
#MosaicMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas 🎄🎨
Here I plagiarize my own 2014 Tumblr post* (with some words by #MavisGallant) to enlarge upon an earlier skeet about the adventure of telephoning in #Paris.
*possibly already read by every one of my eight followers there.
*possibly already read by every one of my eight followers there.
![Photo of a young man on a phone in a Paris booth.
[Fernand Raynaud’s] sketches such as the one in which the Parisian tries to call the suburb of Asnieres and finds it so hopeless that he finally places the call through New York were within a hairline of possibility.
De Gaulle had declared the telephone to be “un gadget” (defined in the Petit Robert dictionary as “objet ménager amusant et nouveau”), and investment in telephone equipment was out of the question until after his retirement. - Mavis Gallant in “Paris: The Taste of a New Age” from Paris Notebooks
This helps to explain the mysterious vagaries of Parisian telephones as I experienced them in the 1960s and even the 1970s. Back then, public phones seemed to function only sporadically and apartments came with their own historically attached numbers and instruments, listed (if at all) under the name of some long-departed owner or tenant. Legend had it that obtaining a new number, under one’s own name, would take years, if not decades.
[Photo: Jean-Pierre Léaud in Francois Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses, 1968]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wcdzwbjgo57a6y742bacd4mv/bafkreig5eunyoo3ymhdpxb62dqpqegkz6atnmmzlrlpzflq6gp5atuetr4@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Here I plagiarize my own 2014 Tumblr post* (with some words by #MavisGallant) to enlarge upon an earlier skeet about the adventure of telephoning in #Paris.
*possibly already read by every one of my eight followers there.
*possibly already read by every one of my eight followers there.
Leaving the Louvre on a foggy winter day.
#Minox📷 by me, 1978.
Exiting the Cour Carrée via the Porte des Arts.
[The 2025 heist site is just on the right outside the arch.]
Le Pont des Arts (under scaffolding in photo) leads across the Seine to L'Institut de France.
#Louvre #Paris #1970s
#Minox📷 by me, 1978.
Exiting the Cour Carrée via the Porte des Arts.
[The 2025 heist site is just on the right outside the arch.]
Le Pont des Arts (under scaffolding in photo) leads across the Seine to L'Institut de France.
#Louvre #Paris #1970s
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Two unsettling Bsky moments today (so far!):
1. I realized I'd been taken in (with 100s of others, but still) by an AI cute-animal video.
2. I was added to new a block/mute list, the point of which I can't decipher.
Oh, well, now back to posting about obscure things of interest to me alone...
1. I realized I'd been taken in (with 100s of others, but still) by an AI cute-animal video.
2. I was added to new a block/mute list, the point of which I can't decipher.
Oh, well, now back to posting about obscure things of interest to me alone...
December 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Two unsettling Bsky moments today (so far!):
1. I realized I'd been taken in (with 100s of others, but still) by an AI cute-animal video.
2. I was added to new a block/mute list, the point of which I can't decipher.
Oh, well, now back to posting about obscure things of interest to me alone...
1. I realized I'd been taken in (with 100s of others, but still) by an AI cute-animal video.
2. I was added to new a block/mute list, the point of which I can't decipher.
Oh, well, now back to posting about obscure things of interest to me alone...
Jane Freilicher (1924-2014)
Cat on Velvet, 1976
oil on canvas
📷Tibor de Nagy Gallery
#Caturday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows🎨
Cat on Velvet, 1976
oil on canvas
📷Tibor de Nagy Gallery
#Caturday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows🎨
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Jane Freilicher (1924-2014)
Cat on Velvet, 1976
oil on canvas
📷Tibor de Nagy Gallery
#Caturday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows🎨
Cat on Velvet, 1976
oil on canvas
📷Tibor de Nagy Gallery
#Caturday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows🎨
James, James, Morrison, Morrison
Weatherby George Dupree
Took good care of his mother
Though he was only three
Weatherby George Dupree
Took good care of his mother
Though he was only three
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
James, James, Morrison, Morrison
Weatherby George Dupree
Took good care of his mother
Though he was only three
Weatherby George Dupree
Took good care of his mother
Though he was only three
Huh. I never realized why the phonebook was called "le Bottin." ☎️ #Paris
It was pretty useless, though, since in the old days ('60s/'70s) a number might be listed under some long-gone tenant's name. It was so hard to get connected then that nobody ever cancelled & the # stayed with the apartment.
It was pretty useless, though, since in the old days ('60s/'70s) a number might be listed under some long-gone tenant's name. It was so hard to get connected then that nobody ever cancelled & the # stayed with the apartment.
A company offering free info from their telephone directory service, based in the rue Bottin, Paris (early 50s).
-Hello!
-Hello, i am looking for the address for the nearest café offering oat-milk and those little mochi cake things..?
-Quel dommage, Madame, you are at least 7 decades premature..
-Hello!
-Hello, i am looking for the address for the nearest café offering oat-milk and those little mochi cake things..?
-Quel dommage, Madame, you are at least 7 decades premature..
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Huh. I never realized why the phonebook was called "le Bottin." ☎️ #Paris
It was pretty useless, though, since in the old days ('60s/'70s) a number might be listed under some long-gone tenant's name. It was so hard to get connected then that nobody ever cancelled & the # stayed with the apartment.
It was pretty useless, though, since in the old days ('60s/'70s) a number might be listed under some long-gone tenant's name. It was so hard to get connected then that nobody ever cancelled & the # stayed with the apartment.
Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) #BOTD 1932
At the Olympia, Paris, 1966. The entire concert is on the Tube.
(This is one of the shorter numbers.)🎶
www.youtube.com/watch
At the Olympia, Paris, 1966. The entire concert is on the Tube.
(This is one of the shorter numbers.)🎶
www.youtube.com/watch
Little Richard - Send Me Some Lovin' (Live in Paris 1966) Paris, Olympia
YouTube video by Little Richard's fan
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) #BOTD 1932
At the Olympia, Paris, 1966. The entire concert is on the Tube.
(This is one of the shorter numbers.)🎶
www.youtube.com/watch
At the Olympia, Paris, 1966. The entire concert is on the Tube.
(This is one of the shorter numbers.)🎶
www.youtube.com/watch
For #ThingThursday:
yet another #stereopticon card of 1900-ish #Toronto.
Metropolitan Church and St. Michael's Cathedral
from the intersection of Queen Street East and Church Street.
Both are still standing, but the same perspective is impossible to recapture on current Street View.
yet another #stereopticon card of 1900-ish #Toronto.
Metropolitan Church and St. Michael's Cathedral
from the intersection of Queen Street East and Church Street.
Both are still standing, but the same perspective is impossible to recapture on current Street View.
December 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For #ThingThursday:
yet another #stereopticon card of 1900-ish #Toronto.
Metropolitan Church and St. Michael's Cathedral
from the intersection of Queen Street East and Church Street.
Both are still standing, but the same perspective is impossible to recapture on current Street View.
yet another #stereopticon card of 1900-ish #Toronto.
Metropolitan Church and St. Michael's Cathedral
from the intersection of Queen Street East and Church Street.
Both are still standing, but the same perspective is impossible to recapture on current Street View.
Janice Biala (1903-2000)
Snow in the Countryland
1976, oil on canvas
📷Tibor de Nagy Gallery
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #WindowsOnWednesday 🎨
Snow in the Countryland
1976, oil on canvas
📷Tibor de Nagy Gallery
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #WindowsOnWednesday 🎨
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Janice Biala (1903-2000)
Snow in the Countryland
1976, oil on canvas
📷Tibor de Nagy Gallery
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #WindowsOnWednesday 🎨
Snow in the Countryland
1976, oil on canvas
📷Tibor de Nagy Gallery
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #WindowsOnWednesday 🎨
New (to me) French verb of the day: fustiger.
("to criticize harshly," or if I were writing a headline, "blast.")
I follow Le Monde on here, and (even though the posts inevitably lead to content that's réservé à nos abonnés) it's fun for vocab alone. 🗞️🥐👩🏫
("to criticize harshly," or if I were writing a headline, "blast.")
I follow Le Monde on here, and (even though the posts inevitably lead to content that's réservé à nos abonnés) it's fun for vocab alone. 🗞️🥐👩🏫
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
New (to me) French verb of the day: fustiger.
("to criticize harshly," or if I were writing a headline, "blast.")
I follow Le Monde on here, and (even though the posts inevitably lead to content that's réservé à nos abonnés) it's fun for vocab alone. 🗞️🥐👩🏫
("to criticize harshly," or if I were writing a headline, "blast.")
I follow Le Monde on here, and (even though the posts inevitably lead to content that's réservé à nos abonnés) it's fun for vocab alone. 🗞️🥐👩🏫
What I'm wearing to the BlueSky Christmas party:
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
What I'm wearing to the BlueSky Christmas party:
Reposted by Anne Denoon
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Martin (1913) & Ritchard (1897) in action.
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Martin (1913) & Ritchard (1897) in action.
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
Rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit.
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit.
Reposted by Anne Denoon
For the last time:
Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into
Please stop screaming into the abyss - we are not insured for that.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into
Please stop screaming into the abyss - we are not insured for that.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
For the last time:
Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into
Please stop screaming into the abyss - we are not insured for that.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into
Please stop screaming into the abyss - we are not insured for that.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Follow the ⬅️ to lose some time at the #Osteria in #Ostuni.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #Italy
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #Italy
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Follow the ⬅️ to lose some time at the #Osteria in #Ostuni.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #Italy
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #Italy