Citizeness "Candy" Kane
@citizenesskane.bsky.social
Winning Pascal's Wager; wearing many hats (literally/figuratively); Paddington & Caligari stan.
Cue the music...
Cue the music...
Wow. I posted Van Eyck's monumental "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", a masterpiece of 15th-c Catholic art, but got slapped with an "Adult Content" label & the image removed from my post. It's a very beautiful artwork & easily viewable on Wikipedia or any other site that features Flemish painting.
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Wow. I posted Van Eyck's monumental "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", a masterpiece of 15th-c Catholic art, but got slapped with an "Adult Content" label & the image removed from my post. It's a very beautiful artwork & easily viewable on Wikipedia or any other site that features Flemish painting.
Wishing y'all a truly MERRY Christmas 🎄✨️
December 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Wishing y'all a truly MERRY Christmas 🎄✨️
I'm really enjoying the latest installment from the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Crime Classics series of reprints, "Death in Ambush", a Yuletide murder mystery by Susan Gilruth. It had me hooked from page 1.
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm really enjoying the latest installment from the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Crime Classics series of reprints, "Death in Ambush", a Yuletide murder mystery by Susan Gilruth. It had me hooked from page 1.
The Ghent Altarpiece, a.k.a. The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is the size of a barn door, the weight of an elephant & one of the most incredible objects ever made by humans. No number of high-res reproductions could prepare me for the impact of seeing it in person.
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Jan Van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece – Smarthistory
Coveted, stolen, buried, and now restored, this exceptional altarpiece has a history as colorful as its palette.
smarthistory.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Ghent Altarpiece, a.k.a. The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is the size of a barn door, the weight of an elephant & one of the most incredible objects ever made by humans. No number of high-res reproductions could prepare me for the impact of seeing it in person.
smarthistory.org/van-eyck-the...
smarthistory.org/van-eyck-the...
This is the kind of very niche, very nerdy, very annotated thread that brings me joy ✨️
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This is the kind of very niche, very nerdy, very annotated thread that brings me joy ✨️
SCARLET STREET is a stealth Christmas movie for #Noircember, pass it on...
“SCARLET STREET” (1945) dir. Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
🎬 Universal Pictures
🎞 #FilmNoir
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
🎬 Universal Pictures
🎞 #FilmNoir
December 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
SCARLET STREET is a stealth Christmas movie for #Noircember, pass it on...
Happy Dick Van Dyke Centennial!
(Cartoon by Ricardo Martínez)
(Cartoon by Ricardo Martínez)
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Happy Dick Van Dyke Centennial!
(Cartoon by Ricardo Martínez)
(Cartoon by Ricardo Martínez)
In #Noirvember I organized an inadvertent Robinson mini-fest when I re-watched a trio of noir classics back to back: DOUBLE INDEMNITY (in which Robinson plays a good guy), KEY LARGO (where he plays a very bad guy), & SCARLETT STREET (is he a tragic guy here? it's complicated...). The man had *range*
Remembering the late stage and film actor Edward G. Robinson (12 December 1893 – 26 January 1973) born #OnThisDay in Bucharest, 🇷🇴 Romania
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In #Noirvember I organized an inadvertent Robinson mini-fest when I re-watched a trio of noir classics back to back: DOUBLE INDEMNITY (in which Robinson plays a good guy), KEY LARGO (where he plays a very bad guy), & SCARLETT STREET (is he a tragic guy here? it's complicated...). The man had *range*
You will be visited by three spirits...
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
You will be visited by three spirits...
I love hermit crabs. Always a delight to see them when I go to the beach.
December 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I love hermit crabs. Always a delight to see them when I go to the beach.
Never thought that "Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier" would contain such a perfect Advent reading, but here it is...
"No one is helpless. No one is beyond helping." One part of the Log Lady's message in Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier I read today. All of the Log Lady's segments in the extra intros and supplemental material is getting to me way more these days. Think I used to just gloss over them.
December 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Never thought that "Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier" would contain such a perfect Advent reading, but here it is...
There are some delightfully niche Advent calendars created by Bluesky users; this is one of my favorites.
Calendrier de l'avent d'enluminures médiévales, jour 1.
Une petite marginalia (= dessin dans une marge de manuscrit) représentant... un lapin dans une camisole de force 😅??
BNF, ms. Francais 95, fol. 138v ; un roman arthurien copié vers 1270-1290.
Une petite marginalia (= dessin dans une marge de manuscrit) représentant... un lapin dans une camisole de force 😅??
BNF, ms. Francais 95, fol. 138v ; un roman arthurien copié vers 1270-1290.
December 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
There are some delightfully niche Advent calendars created by Bluesky users; this is one of my favorites.
Nothing says "Yuletide in Brussels" like a festive municipal space featuring Christmas trees decorated with beer cans 🎄🍻
December 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Nothing says "Yuletide in Brussels" like a festive municipal space featuring Christmas trees decorated with beer cans 🎄🍻
Wandering around Brussels, we found a vegan café called LUCIFER LIVES, decorated entirely with horror film memorabilia 🧟♂️
Belgium: Keeping it surreal since 1924.
Belgium: Keeping it surreal since 1924.
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Wandering around Brussels, we found a vegan café called LUCIFER LIVES, decorated entirely with horror film memorabilia 🧟♂️
Belgium: Keeping it surreal since 1924.
Belgium: Keeping it surreal since 1924.
I spent this morning looking at Bruegel paintings at the Brussels Museum of Fine Art, & agree 💯
I have always enjoyed Norman Rockwell’s painting of Union Station in the Christmas season. It’s like an avuncular bourgeois Bruegel, in the best sense.
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I spent this morning looking at Bruegel paintings at the Brussels Museum of Fine Art, & agree 💯
Ya gotta love the Belgians. Even when it's cold & rainy, if they've planned a party in the street (as today, for the Feast of St. Nicholas), a whole lot of folks are going to show up to party.
December 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Ya gotta love the Belgians. Even when it's cold & rainy, if they've planned a party in the street (as today, for the Feast of St. Nicholas), a whole lot of folks are going to show up to party.
Brussels...
December 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Brussels...
Pantone's choice of what is literally a shade of white as its Color of the Year 2026 seems a bit on the nose.
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Pantone's choice of what is literally a shade of white as its Color of the Year 2026 seems a bit on the nose.
Forget DIE HARD. The *real* Christmas movie is BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE.
Kim Novak and Pyewacket
🎬 Bell, Book and Candle (1958)❄️
🎬 Bell, Book and Candle (1958)❄️
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Forget DIE HARD. The *real* Christmas movie is BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE.
I worked with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography for 15 years as an English translator & copyeditor, so I've seen lots of fun names for sea creatures, but "pink hairy squat lobster" has got to be my fave 💖
The Pink Hairy Squat Lobster (Lauriea siagiani) is a small crustacean that lives on barrel sponges in the Indo-Pacific region. It is more closely related to crabs than lobsters & is known for its color & hair-like structures called setae, which help it sense vibrations & filter food.
#marinelife
#marinelife
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I worked with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography for 15 years as an English translator & copyeditor, so I've seen lots of fun names for sea creatures, but "pink hairy squat lobster" has got to be my fave 💖
Bitterns... don't sound very tasty. But apparently they were popular at Henry III's court.
Ok...sure. You NEED eels at your Christmas feast. But what *else* do you need?
In 1245, Henry III ordered his sheriff at Cambridge to deliver the following to him by Christmas:
2 cranes
24 swans
10 boars & their pickled heads
50 bitterns
6 peacocks
And 10,000 eels. Of course.
🗃️🧪
In 1245, Henry III ordered his sheriff at Cambridge to deliver the following to him by Christmas:
2 cranes
24 swans
10 boars & their pickled heads
50 bitterns
6 peacocks
And 10,000 eels. Of course.
🗃️🧪
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Bitterns... don't sound very tasty. But apparently they were popular at Henry III's court.
More #Advent listening 💜
A splendid BBCRadio3 celebration of #Advent 1—in the form of a whole schedule of programmes today devoted to the performance of carol-singing, traditional & new, across the UK. Maintenance & revival of regional #carols a true glory of Insular music-making
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Carols Across the Country - a Seasonal Journey, Live from the Peak District in Staffordshire
Mark Forrest at the Peak Wildlife Park with musicians Jackie Oates and Belinda O'Hooley.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
More #Advent listening 💜
A new one for my Yuletide listening list 🎄
I read this every Christmas and the excellent BBC radio version is still available:
December 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A new one for my Yuletide listening list 🎄
What a fascinating life!
Day 2 #artAdventCalendar I made several portraits this year including Sophie Brahe (1559 or 1556 -1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist 🐡👩🏼🔬🧪🔭with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools &
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
What a fascinating life!
Our youngest said at dinner, "Well, I'M thankful for Thanksgiving leftovers", so that was gratifying.
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Our youngest said at dinner, "Well, I'M thankful for Thanksgiving leftovers", so that was gratifying.