Siham Palmer

I’ll try to make this brief. I’m not very good at doing brief. But I’ll try.

I’m cleaning my room out, sorting stuff into recycling piles, and parting ways with tons of magazines that I had previously been reluctant to throw away. So many memories… …

Meanwhile I logged on to Second Life and took a seat in the corner of my favourite place in the whole wide metaverse. Jade’s Jazz Bar. As I was sitting there a live performance by the French singer Siham Palmer began. I’m not sure how she was doing it. Likely from her own home or studio – she clearly had the dance floor on screen in front of her because she took requests and interacted with the packed club. It really was packed. My super fast computer at home struggled with the frame rate of having so many people on screen at once and I had to fly up to the top balcany just to find room.

Anyway, she is a truly amazing singer and I promptly added her to myspace (she is found at www.myspace.com/sisicool93). But to top off a perfect Sunday afternoon she actually said my name in her lush French accent. I gave her a L$300 tip, as many others were doing, and she said “Merci Benjeyman Na-siko”.

Magic.