Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
@cbkenkar.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD
Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD
Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
My metal lunchbox had Popples!
January 31, 2026 at 7:49 AM
My metal lunchbox had Popples!
I also looked up what a busk looks like (so you won't have to)
January 25, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I also looked up what a busk looks like (so you won't have to)
🐋 Ch 100 "He was a darkly-tanned, burly, good-natured, fine-looking man, of sixty or thereabouts, dressed in a spacious roundabout, that hung round him in festoons of blue pilot-cloth..."
(Pilot-cloth is covered up thread) veteranarms.com/Union-Civil-...
(Pilot-cloth is covered up thread) veteranarms.com/Union-Civil-...
January 25, 2026 at 3:15 PM
🐋 Ch 100 "He was a darkly-tanned, burly, good-natured, fine-looking man, of sixty or thereabouts, dressed in a spacious roundabout, that hung round him in festoons of blue pilot-cloth..."
(Pilot-cloth is covered up thread) veteranarms.com/Union-Civil-...
(Pilot-cloth is covered up thread) veteranarms.com/Union-Civil-...
🐋 Ch 77, "I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-colored membrane, like the lining of a fine *pelisse*, forming the inner surface of the Sperm Whale's case"
January 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM
🐋 Ch 77, "I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-colored membrane, like the lining of a fine *pelisse*, forming the inner surface of the Sperm Whale's case"
🐋 Ch 75 "...at a broad view, the Right Whale's head bears a rather inelegant resemblance to a gigantic galliot-toed shoe."
Power Moby Dick annotation claims this is, simply, a "square-toed" shoe, BUT in an image search these brogue designs came up and imho they look waaay more like whales.
Power Moby Dick annotation claims this is, simply, a "square-toed" shoe, BUT in an image search these brogue designs came up and imho they look waaay more like whales.
January 25, 2026 at 2:58 PM
🐋 Ch 75 "...at a broad view, the Right Whale's head bears a rather inelegant resemblance to a gigantic galliot-toed shoe."
Power Moby Dick annotation claims this is, simply, a "square-toed" shoe, BUT in an image search these brogue designs came up and imho they look waaay more like whales.
Power Moby Dick annotation claims this is, simply, a "square-toed" shoe, BUT in an image search these brogue designs came up and imho they look waaay more like whales.
How about Joe Manganiello? 🐋
January 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM
How about Joe Manganiello? 🐋
further reading for this month's project ("subscription required") 🐋 📖
January 14, 2026 at 8:43 AM
further reading for this month's project ("subscription required") 🐋 📖
🐋 Ch 16 "[...] a harpooner in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat"
A style of tailcoat with a long back split, sometimes referred to as a "swallowtail"
A style of tailcoat with a long back split, sometimes referred to as a "swallowtail"
January 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM
🐋 Ch 16 "[...] a harpooner in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat"
A style of tailcoat with a long back split, sometimes referred to as a "swallowtail"
A style of tailcoat with a long back split, sometimes referred to as a "swallowtail"
Chapter 6: "Here comes another [green Vermonter(?)] with a sou'-wester and a bombazine cloak."
![Gentleman's coat of bombazine fabric, dating to around 1790, that apparently sold at auction for more than $1700. (1stdibs [dot] com)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egdbzrssfqf2e3bnxzocteyf/bafkreie3pgv62lsrm6omsx5vuho3txanyltmqmfntrxormlujmm6sne4yq@jpeg)
January 3, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Chapter 6: "Here comes another [green Vermonter(?)] with a sou'-wester and a bombazine cloak."
End of chapter 4: "...[Queequeg] proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton."
![From Wikipedia: "A monkey jacket is a waist length jacket tapering at the back to a point. Use of the term has been dated to the 1850s onwards. As early as the 1790s sailors wore a broad collar, double-breasted, waist length roundabout style jacket, aka mustering jacket, that later became known as a 'monkey jacket' [...] after the monkeys that accompanied organ grinders" [!!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egdbzrssfqf2e3bnxzocteyf/bafkreidxjaoyhyga3nru7drl62hzstgh4bufvuvuz565jrerkynafbot2y@jpeg)
January 3, 2026 at 8:49 PM
End of chapter 4: "...[Queequeg] proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton."
I was in New York for the holiday and landed this at the Strand near the East Village. Never mind the discounted price (and the ✨sticker✨)—check the MARGINS on this bad boy 💕
January 2, 2026 at 9:22 AM
I was in New York for the holiday and landed this at the Strand near the East Village. Never mind the discounted price (and the ✨sticker✨)—check the MARGINS on this bad boy 💕
What to do w/r/t the influential work of creeps? Important question. In cinema: happy to see a notice this summer in the Musée Carnavalet's exhibition of Agnès Varda's photographs, acknowledging both her early collaborations with Gérard Depardieu & his very recent conviction for sexual assault.
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What to do w/r/t the influential work of creeps? Important question. In cinema: happy to see a notice this summer in the Musée Carnavalet's exhibition of Agnès Varda's photographs, acknowledging both her early collaborations with Gérard Depardieu & his very recent conviction for sexual assault.
she made her bed, she’ll lie in it
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
she made her bed, she’ll lie in it
Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
...all this to say, reader: this movie is a way more direct adaptation than you would think! the wackiest stuff was right there on the page!
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
...all this to say, reader: this movie is a way more direct adaptation than you would think! the wackiest stuff was right there on the page!
Some good news!! The program for To Be Continued 5 is LIVE & features SO MANY of my favorite people 🫶 TBC has been an annual highlight for adaptation scholars since its founding.
18-19 Sept, 100% online, 100% fresh insights. Don't miss out! Follow @adaptstudies.bsky.social or DM for full details.
18-19 Sept, 100% online, 100% fresh insights. Don't miss out! Follow @adaptstudies.bsky.social or DM for full details.
August 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Some good news!! The program for To Be Continued 5 is LIVE & features SO MANY of my favorite people 🫶 TBC has been an annual highlight for adaptation scholars since its founding.
18-19 Sept, 100% online, 100% fresh insights. Don't miss out! Follow @adaptstudies.bsky.social or DM for full details.
18-19 Sept, 100% online, 100% fresh insights. Don't miss out! Follow @adaptstudies.bsky.social or DM for full details.
Postcards from day 2 @adaptstudies.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Postcards from day 2 @adaptstudies.bsky.social
Le Bonheur (Varda 1965)
May 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Le Bonheur (Varda 1965)
This was a LOT of fun, though 🌻
May 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This was a LOT of fun, though 🌻
@sailorjello.bsky.social coming in with the public service 🫡
February 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
@sailorjello.bsky.social coming in with the public service 🫡
also definitely becoming-Animal
December 9, 2024 at 7:30 PM
also definitely becoming-Animal
will tell my kids this is Deleuze and Guattari
December 9, 2024 at 6:34 PM
will tell my kids this is Deleuze and Guattari
Delighted to screen Du côté de la côte & Uncle Yanco & Les 3 boutons for the Bilkent Cultural Studies Society’s Auteur Days series tomorrow! 💜 🌻 #varda
November 20, 2024 at 8:48 AM
Delighted to screen Du côté de la côte & Uncle Yanco & Les 3 boutons for the Bilkent Cultural Studies Society’s Auteur Days series tomorrow! 💜 🌻 #varda