The light will bring you home

[sovay]

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, selkie. My niece has been fully vaccinated.

Comments

[nineweaving]

Not a small thing, a good dinner shared with your cat. Nor is curling up with that cat to watch "a harsh and atmospheric maritime noir." And seeing your niece fully vaxxed is huge.

A good day.

*hugs*

Nine

[pameladean]

Oh, that sounds delicious. 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.

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."

P.

[thistleingrey]

Yay, vaccine!

[selkie]

I am very relieved for your niece and I support the victory of prosaic dinner. Shoulda been sea urchins all around, but mackerel is very nice with an allium.

[lemon_badgeress]

i am GLAD

[pameladean]

And yes, yay vaccine for kids and especially for your niece! I was distracted by cats, but that is a major thing.

P.

[cmcmck]

It remains a mystery but not as much of a mystery as people wish to believe.

[davidgillon]

canned mackerel with shallots and tarragon and black pepper and ate it over spaghetti,

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.

[asakiyume]

Canned mackerel is a Good Thing.

The lighthouse film--does it relate to another lighthouse film you were talking about recently?