If you couldn’t tell from my prolific tweeting (and subsequent deleting) from this past week, as the days wear on through the isolation, I find it harder to function and do everyday things. I find myself falling in a weird routine, full of things that don’t necessarily make it feel easier (watching a lot of okay Ryan Gosling movies). It’s an odd state of limbo if you will. But I digress, I’m writing this after losing out for the third straight week in my weekly poker game. I’m emotional. Onto food.
As a function of this pandemic spiral, I find myself reaching for whatever ~things~ make me feel most comfortable, most safe. This manifests in a lot of different ways. As an example, I ate a whole Ted’s Chocolate Haupia Pie for lunch one day this week.
I’ve never been spearfishing (although I have pestered all of my friends to take me) but I have been graced with the luck to know many who do. I have many a fond memory of friends hopping out of the water with a newly skewered fish and immediately tossing the poor lil thing on the grill.
I guess then it is no surprise that I spent the majority of my week binging spearfishing videos. Catch + Cooks are my favorite genre. These videos consist of a bunch of local dudes spearing some poor reef fish that are probably too small for the DLNR and them tossing some butter and lemon on them before cooking them at a heat far too high. I had two friends in high school make truly terrible Catch and Cook videos so they are incredibly close to my heart. Of course, it’s fitting that the most popular Youtuber in this space seems to be some dude from the mainland who now lives in Kona. He won (?) National Spearfisher of the Year a few years back and now he does this full-time (?). His videos are surprisingly engaging and fun to watch and I find myself sucked into a rabbit hole whenever I watch one. I’ll link a video below but I just want to say I couldn’t name this dude if my life depended on it.
That’s really it for this week (I guess this is a weekly thing now). Stay safe, stay indoors, and don’t get tangled in your line.