I am always amazed at fast people who do good work. And by "work", I also mean "play". As in playing the piano, which was a considerable part of my past before becoming Torley Torgeson, Jr. Sue Stonebender's Serendipity pianos have been making guest appearances in SL?you may have seen them near a telehub at an ideal, eye-level location! Be that if it may, it was just a few days ago. And yesterday, I received this lovely packaged box! Opening it up was lush…
It was shortly after that I got the whole set out. Even with SL's limited notecard format, formatting and punctuation still has an opportunity to shine through if you're so inclined! More people should really wrap their gifts in SL! It may not be practical, but it is practically wonderful! And I settle down with the exclamation marks… what particularly caught my attention, besides the bench opening, were the trio of candlebra included. I think back to such geniuses as Elton John and Liberace?particularly the latter but the extravagance of the former?and Lyre Calliope came to find me in the Sandbox Island. Here she is, reading a book, sitting on the "Watermelon Serendipity" piano, while I attempt a rendition of "Down By the Bay", which I'm convinced could be an antimilitaristic offshoot of "Bananaphone" if provoked.
Gleeb Gupte arrived shortly afterwards, extolling the spirit of Link. Ikari view. I realize if we had more instruments, we could have started a band and even been popular on a late-night talkshow. As it were, however, that lateral primsmith Cottonteil Muromachi had my appointment set up…
… an appointment with a cello (JELLO CHEESE TOES CONCERTO 3RD MOVEMENT!).
The way Cotton thinks is out of this world, and it rocks my world. You see, it'd been just a short rewind of the tape to this SL Forums post by PixelDoll Nephilaine Protagonist. She looketh for a cello. I dunno about wishes and horses but in SL, dreams come true, and I think the truest analogy I can come up with is that insofar as artistic craftsmanship goes, Cotton makes cellos like Laine makes clothes. As of this writing the two have not connected personally?yet!?but I'm hoping in a few more days, this information will have become obsolete.
Getting my friends to meet each other is a thrill, so no doubt, I wanted Francis Chung over. I hesitate to say "high-class tastes" because that can sound snobby, but I can and will say that we all do our own thing and know what we want. (That's not a hyperlink, despite the underline.)
I am a molecular bonder. And bondage is fun! Wheeeeee!
What else was there? O, Cotton's magnifying glass hat, which you can somewhat see there, and wearing a drumhalo is also mint, if not doublemint. Consider how the great masters of SL go about their day.
LATERAL PRIMSMITHING!
Afterwards, the three of us headed to some smelly sewers in the sky, quite a contrast to Cotton's other recent build, Le Chat Noir. They?the sewers, not the black cat?are suitably decrepit and may be reminiscent of the filth featured in Mimic. I overrode the time of day to get more of a mood.
Additional notes (hee hee, "notes"):
Sue Stonebender is very nice to me. She is a masterful multitasker and has a whole lot of projects on the go in both lives, and more to come! She likes the ;^) emoticon and my first contact with her in SL was when she sent out surveys awhile back, I filled mine in describing my experiences with Asperger's Syndrome whilst being in SL. Visit one of her many websites here.
Cottonteil Muromachi is SL's equivalent to shadows building towers. I sometimes wonder what all that brilliance is doing in a corner, but I'm rather pushy with her and hope more of her work shines through inworld, where it can delight many more. Maybe I can trick her into getting into the prefab biz. 
She doesn't have a website I know of… yet. But in the meantime, visit the sewers (fly up some).