Friday blues and stalled times

Can't kick the week out yet - one of those week and weekends, I and all my selves, are cohabiting the eternal couch that seems to be my life now. At what point does the problem cease to capture the imagination - boredom or the closeness to the solution?

Shotgun beer can opener is the friday gadget high -low tech moment.

ebaying it, Flickring, counting ads, orkutting low, kazaa riaaed, 'nano' TMed on an ipod, failing fiber under the indian ocean - can't hear on vonage - no real tangible tech tickles lately - the aha moment has been the British scientists going low tech on a mass producible malarial solution, the nets.

On another vein, signature pieces take their time as in Shirley Fintz's signature piece -



Sometimes you hit it early and the next turn is forever - as in Currin's Thanksgiving piece - this one's Americana.