Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Lisa

@big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social

190 followers 210 following 250 posts

disappearing Ontario landscapes, cinq à sept, heritage, books, theatre, garden/flower report, kitchen chronicles, gallimaufry counter-programming Look for the big red raincoat. Elsewhere: IG harmony_in_brown_and_grey

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Reposted by Lisa

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21h

The tangled dead, root-pulled from above and below, feel scratches upon long vanished, phantom flesh. Their fancy houses have become cells where they wait on visitors who never come. Necropolis bounded and more than half-forgotten, many of them ache for hell. – #CLNolan

2 16 130

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 19h

Cracking on and working down a towering tbr pile. We have been fortunate with our October weather; finally a cardigan day.
Not shown is the translator for this publication; it is Sora Kim-Russell.
Publishers, do please print the translator on the cover.
#booksky #booksintranslation

Book cover for At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong. Accompanied by a cup of espresso and a mini eccles cake. A sunny day.

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 22h

Salem Pioneer cemetery, est. 1800. A sign to crack some spines and start working on the tbr piles.
#31daysofgraves

A pale-grey arched-top 19th c headstone; the arch is carved with a tassled, braided stone; lichen grows on the stone. A hand with extended index finger rests on an open book.

1 2 21

Reposted by Lisa

gambolloch @gambolloch.bsky.social · 1d

Brooklyn
#photography

Building at night. The outside of the building is blue bricks. There’s light spilling out a window on the left. The windows on the right are reflecting red brake lights

7 46

Reposted by Lisa

Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 1d

Accessorizing for #WorldOctopusDay
Octopus helmet, late 16th c. Japan
Opal and diamond octopus brooch, emerald eyes c. 1955
Silver and glass octopus chatelaine, 1887

Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy
www.bonhams.com/auctions/265...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Opal octopus with diamonds and emerald eyes

Hammered silver octopus chatelaine with red glass eyes.

8 16

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 1d

St. Mark's, NOTL.
#31DaysOfGraves
#WindowsOnWednesday

A stained glass tomb window in green mosaic, protected by wrought iron

1 5 41

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 2d

Rain date with an angel.
#31daysofgraves

black and white close-up of a stone angel, head bowed, carrying a bouquet; its wings form a halo of sorts

3 27

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 3d

Gender neutral.
#31daysofgraves

A light-grey headstone reading Northway. A palm frond is carved lower left on the diagonal.

1 15

Reposted by Lisa

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4d

Pouring on the rarebit in DREAM OF A RAREBIT FIEND (1906), live action adaptation of the Winsor McCay comic.

The chafing dish cheese sauce was wildly popular but director Edwin S Porter's decision to feature multiple beer bottles in shot gives added context to our hero's bizarre dreams.

3 16 110

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 4d

Portent.
#31daysofgraves

A granite headstone for Birks family; an overcast afternoon; a robin sits atop the stone; the bird is drenched from the steady drizzling rain; behind the stone, wildflowers form a hedgerow; a telegraph pole and wires, and fields are in the distance.

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 4d

brothers & sisters
💔👏

playbill for King Gilgamesh; two men sing and dance on a stage; between them, a woman plays the violin

Playbill for The Welkin. Fourteen women are shown; one holds a noose.

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 5d

Taking a page from Pepys--minus the carriage and wine.
A sticky 30° leaving-it-to-the-last-minute two-play day. Fortifications sought: lavender sake, described as being coddled in plum, and polpo in takoyak form. Cheers, good people.

A stem glass of lavender sake with table accoutrements.

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 6d

St.Alphonse,ON.
Bravo, Henry Joly.
Languages for #31daysofgraves

A remembrance stone set flat in the lawn.
Hommage à un brave soldat de la guerre 1914-1919.
Bravo Henry Joly, tu as repondu a l'appel.

Canadian Veterans Affairs memorial headstone for Henry Joly, soldier.
14th Jan 1922.

1 9

Reposted by Lisa

RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 7d

🎧 Listening in Full Dimension – Part 13 of my ‘Spiorad aird nam Murchan’ series.

Ambisonic fieldwork in Ardnamurchan reveals the emotional architecture of sound.

🖋 “These recordings are emotional landscapes… portals to presence.”

🔗 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/9/...

#DeepListening

2 5

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 6d

Spring ramble at Hamilton Cemetery(established 1850).
#31daysofgraves Day 3: tomb

An ornamental stone approximately 15 foot tomb set into a hillside. Gardens of shrubbery and evergreens flank the structure.

1 1 19

Reposted by Lisa

Craig @thecraigmancometh.bsky.social · 7d

The muse of music has shown up lately, so I'm a bit less present, but appreciation for you folks and what you do has not waned.

Have a lovely Friday. 😉

#photography #NaturePhotography #landscape

A cluster of tall bald cypress trees rising from calm water on a foggy morning. Muted greens and browns against a white sky make up the palette. Mirrored forms of trees and shoreline interact with the negative space of sky and its reflection.

3 7 100

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 6d

I think often of her Miss Scofield.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 7d

Patricia Routledge, 1929–2025

❤️

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 8d

The Scourge memorial, Hamilton ON.
#31daysofgraves

Five rows of white headstones in memoriam for the crew members of the Scourge, sinking in 1813 off the shore of Lake Ontario. An anchor is carved on each stone. The grounds have tufted grass and dandelions grow amongst the graves.

1 11

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 8d

There is a thistle on the second row.

1 1

Reposted by Lisa

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 8d

1/10/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

night through the trees
at the back of the house

go outside to look up - sing Orion
to the tune of Gloria by Them

1 4 66

Reposted by Lisa

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 8d

This portrait is such a perfect encapsulation of Artaud’s relationship to the Surrealists. A skeptical, grim look over the shoulder, back to Man Ray, who clearly finds him beautiful and glamorous.

Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 8d

Antonin Artaud — Man Ray, 1926

Black and white photograph of the artist entering in arto is sitting in a chair that is to the side but a little away from the little away from us and he is looking back over her shoulder at us he has an amazing face a long straight nose and high cheap buns his hair big and swept back he looks damn romantic for a surrealist

4 3 22

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 8d

Glace Bay, NS.
#31daysofgraves
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

Cemetery arch at nightfall. The sign reads St. Eugene's Cemetery.

19th c worn white headstones on a cliff side; the cemetery overlooks a bay.

1 15

Reposted by Lisa

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19d

You know what's underestimated? Watching things that are fun to watch and not a dutiful chore.

9 5 200

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 10d

I've seen this comment before.
Arcadia remains for *me* one of the 2013 highlights; I think of it often.

Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social · 10d

So much energy!
Sometimes all one needs is a bit of farce to see the week out.