The light will bring you home
It's a small thing, but it has been ages since I was able to make myself dinner that was not a holiday meal or a sandwich and tonight I cooked some canned mackerel with shallots and tarragon and black pepper and ate it over spaghetti, with appropriate libations to the cats, of course. I sat on the couch with Hestia curled up in a little black seal-heap beside me and watched Kristoffer Nyholm's The Vanishing (2018), a harsh and atmospheric maritime noir drawn loosely from the famous disappearance of the three keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse in 1900, here transposed to the 1930's and given the starting kick of a wreck with a dangerous secret. It was full of gulls and salt and the sinewy coiling of waves and winds about its rock-chip island and should have been released under its original title of Keepers, which contains among its double meanings the implication of finders. It was the closest I could get to a goddamn sea urchin, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie. My niece has been fully vaccinated.
selkie. My niece has been fully vaccinated.
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A good day.
*hugs*
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Thank you.
And seeing your niece fully vaxxed is huge.
I am so, so glad of it.
*hugs*
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Or perhaps I am really just thinking of our own two little black cats, of whom Ninja is extravagantly outgoing and confident that everybody loves him (which is true), while Nuit is higher-strung and tends not to demand attention until suddenly she has what is generally called a "petting emergency."
In other feline-directed terminology, I have probably said before that I love your use of "libations." We often say "customary vails."
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It was very good: hot and savory and full of fish. I really wanted fish.
And I am glad to hear of a sociable Hestia. I know she is, but Autolycus is so VERY much that way inclined that he gets mentioned more.
Hestia is not as extravagantly attention-seeking as her brother, but she is firmly not an unsociable cat. She often sleeps against
Or perhaps I am really just thinking of our own two little black cats, of whom Ninja is extravagantly outgoing and confident that everybody loves him (which is true), while Nuit is higher-strung and tends not to demand attention until suddenly she has what is generally called a "petting emergency."
Aw.
In other feline-directed terminology, I have probably said before that I love your use of "libations." We often say "customary vails."
I like that! I hope I have said so.
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Since I had a vague feeling, typing about the customary vails, that I had done so before to you, I think it likely that you have said so!
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It's such a good thing.
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Thank you. I want my niece to be as safe as possible and I want to eat more fish.
Shoulda been sea urchins all around, but mackerel is very nice with an allium.
It was! We should add regular sea urchin to our list of necessities. Red's Best at the Boston Public Market used to serve them straight off ice onto a plate, but I do not know if they still do.
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Thank you.
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Thank you! The cats will tell you it is always right and proper to be distracted by them.
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As an inspired-by rather than an effort at historical explanation, I liked this version a lot. It did not require anything other than people behaving like themselves.
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Yum, I regularly do canned mackerel with rice and salsa, I haven't used shallots before, but that sounds worth trying. And answers the question as to what to have for lunch.
Yay for fully vaccinated nibling! Hopefully I'll have my own Covid trifecta completed as of this evening.
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I am always glad to help!
Yay for fully vaccinated nibling! Hopefully I'll have my own Covid trifecta completed as of this evening.
Thank you! Fingers crossed for you.
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The lighthouse film--does it relate to another lighthouse film you were talking about recently?
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I love it. I tried to buy some more tonight while I was at the supermarket, but it was not unjustly sold out. I bought some canned pilchards instead.
The lighthouse film--does it relate to another lighthouse film you were talking about recently?
Which lighthouse film was I talking about recently? It is not the same historical incident that inspired Robert Eggars' The Lighthouse (2019); that one contains elements of the Smalls Lighthouse Tragedy of 1801. I've talked about the Flannan Isles Lighthouse in context of Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse (1980), which I saw performed by the Boston Lyric Opera in 2012 and loved.