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I’m reading this morning about ‘Christmas sandwiches ‘.
This is absolutely not a thing here,if someone wants to eat a sandwich in December they eat the same sandwich that they would eat any other month of the year 😉
But in the UK there are all kinds of special ‘Christmas sandwiches ‘ that the chains and the supermarkets sell in the weeks leading up to Christmas.. often with typical ingredients like turkey, cranberries or stuffing etc inside.
Do you have ‘Christmas sandwiches ‘ in your country too?
Somebody shared [this link](https://metalinjection.net/new-music/death-metal-band-with-extremely-long-name-streams-new-single-also-with-long-name) about a metal band with a really long name on a random Slack channel, with an added comment saying “And of course, they’re from Europe”.
Since I don’t understand how being “from Europe” is a punchline, I decided to actually read the article assuming it was just some kind of pretentious metal band from Sweden or Finland or something. Turns out the band’s from Belarus.
Aside from being marginally weirded out by somebody dismissively referring to a Belarusian band as just being “from Europe”, I’m now kind of curious to know if this band has some kind of backstory. Belarus isn’t exactly known for creative freedom after all and I’m wondering if all of this is just some kind of subtle avant-garde commentary on the state of affairs in Belarus or…something? Just like James Joyce’s *Ulysses* was deliberately written to be difficult to read as a way of conveying a sense of dissociation from the English language that was imposed on his native Ireland.
For some reason that’s tangentially related to the news that Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are officially dating, I’m reminded of when I was 13 and looking up which monarchies around the world had princesses that were around my age and wondering how feasible it would be to marry into royalty. There’s still time and eligible bachelorettes out there for me. You guys think Ingrid Alexandra of Norway might want to visit New Orleans for a Mardi Gras ball next year and need a date?
My mom wrote that a special kind of honey that’s produced somewhere on a mountain by wild bees or something is being sold again (it’s only sold once a year and sold out quickly). The kilo price is 6000 liras.
Do you guys have any ridiculously expensive food items that are highly sought after?
It seems like I’ll start the new year simping after the sopranista Bruno de Sa. I mean, [look at him](https://youtube.com/shorts/sFIkKIAG_CE?si=5CPzFeYtKrcYXivI). He’s absolutely mesmerizing. He is also very very attractive, at least to my eyes. I am such a sucker for counter tenors (though it seems like this is his natural voice, so he’s a male soprano and not counter tenor, strictly speaking). If I lived 250 years ago, I would be one of those women who swoon at the hottest counter tenor of the day.
I see that Paris has once again come top of the Lonely Planet ‘Best cities in the world to visit ‘…5 European cities in the Top Ten, and 22 in the Top 50.
If you’ve been to Paris, can you understand how it’s rated overall #1? Or is it ‘overrated’ in your opinion?
The phrase “aesthetically pleasing” really annoys me. What’s wrong with beautiful, pretty, gorgeous, cute, good looking, attractive, or any other such word?
I finished my lemon still life comparison study. [Here is the watercolor](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/Lemons-watercolor-1270197933), [here’s the gouache](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/Lemons-gouache-1272620870) and [here’s the initial value study that’s more popular than either of them](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/Lemons-graphite-study-1270198780).
I don’t paint much with gouache, but I enjoyed it a lot. It is more forgiving than watercolor and since it’s opaque you have a chance to cover up mistakes (though they’re not as opaque as oils, so it’ll only go so far). Also one can experiment with brush marks a bit. But watercolor is so translucent and beautiful, and one can do lovely soft blending.
I like both. Good thing I don’t have to choose. I will do the same with landscape and portraits as well.
Tonight they are showing the ‘prima’ from La Scala in Milan, live on TV.
This year it’s Lady Macbeth, with the music by Shostakovich.This is the opera that Stalin famously walked out of, back in 1936… after which the opera was banned in the Soviet Union.