I just started reading Alice Wexler's Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life and discovered the origin of the phrase "beyond the pale." Emma Goldman was born in Russia where during the late 18th and early 19th century Jews were forced to live within the Pale of Settlement. Within the Pale they were denied economic, social and literal mobility. Upon reading that description I began to wonder if that was the derivation of the phrase and lo



The expression beyond the pale, meaning outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour, came much later. The idea behind it was that civilisation stopped at the boundary of the pale and beyond lay those who were not under civilised control and whose behaviour therefore was not that of a gentleman.

Also, in hot pursuit of one of my goals in life--coining a phrase or term--I became very excited when I thought I had invented cubiclism...which is, of course, cubicle art. A google search turns up only 13 results which leads me to believe that I have de facto invented cubiclism. In any case, the definition I would attach to cublicism is not art intended for the cublicle but rather art created from and inside of the cublicle. Think paper clips, post it notes, staples, stamps and otherwise. I have some abstract post-it art that I think will exemplify what it is I am looking for. I think I will create a cubliclism blog and ask for entries!

Lastly for your viewing pleasure:

Multimedia Artists Project Peace Images On Verizon Building in NYC
In New York, a group of multimedia artists engaged in an anti-war action last night near Ground Zero. The Glass Bead Collective set up a massive light projector and beamed 200-foot-tall projections of peace images on the side of the Verizon building. The projection could be seen throughout lower Manhattan.

Ann Coulter Still Really Really Sucks and dresses like a dominatrix...just for fun though! Maybe she should try to actually read books instead of just devouring them rabidly with her razor sharp jaws and salivating. I'm not defending democrats but her comments about voting for a democrat being akin to voting for a 1984 style dystopia in light of the current administration is just laughable. Fortunately it appears that she has just gone completely off the deep end and will likely end up in a glass room with electrodes attached to her with a man in a white coat spoon feeding her applesauce in the next 5 years.