Bill de Blasio's Victory (& Secret Weapon)

Dante, Chiara, Bill and Chirlane de Blasio(© David Handschuh, New York Daily News)Below I've posted bit of silliness from one of my little drawing notebooks, though this post is about the serious and very positive outcome of last night's New York City Mayoral primary, which was the victory (perhaps without a runoff) of Brooklyn City Councilman Bill de Blasio over his Democratic rivals Bill Thompson (the 2009 opponent of retiring Mayor Mike Bloomberg),...

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Translation: Three Microstories by Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge(from muni.com)Obergrenze der RaublustEin Raubtier, das sich von Adlern und Löwen ernährt, braucht eine Heimat von der Grösse ganz Schottlands. So wie Macbeth und der "Zug der Schattenkönige", die er ermordete, eine Unterwelt brauchen, die von Schottland bis Gibraltar reicht. Dieser Raumbedarf setzt der Raubtiergrösse innerhalb der Evolution Grenzen.Rapacity's Upper LimitA predator that feeds on eagles and lions needs a home the size...

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Goodbye to the Summer / Back in Class

Rutgers undergraduate Paul Robesonwith fellow football playersOn Tuesday, I resumed my old new fall rhythm. "Old," because I have been teaching for more than a decade now (though last year started at Rutgers University in Newark's campus); "new" because instead of my usual gearing up for hopping on a plane to return to a different home and readjust to a different city, I returned to my routine from last fall, and via public and bipedal transportation...

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