Gerry Canavan

My favorite poet has a piece, "Albanian Virgin," in poemeleon 's "Gender" issue. The poem (if I may defile it with...

Wednesday night quadruple threat. * Maybe my favorite science story ever: A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that t...

Jaimee made this.

Friday night roundup. * Why would they send Obama to Copenhagen if there was any chance it might not work ? Really poor showing from the Wh...

Sunday! Links! * Jaimee has a new poem online at Country Dog Review. * Traxus has a nice post on status update activism jumping off my po...

Two book reviews from my household in the Indy this week: my review of Master of War: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of...

More! * Summer book reviews from both me and Jaimee in the Independent. * As ubiquitous as pollution has become in the industrialized West,...

Jaimee has some new poems online this week, "Chlamydia" and "Echo and Narcissus."

Other stuff. * Jaimee has a piece in the Indy Green Guide this week comparing dueling energy initiatives in the North Carolina State Legis...

American poetry is (still) dying. The dismal poetry findings stand in sharp contrast not only to the rise in general fiction reading, but a...

The winners and judges of Independent Weekly 's 2009 poetry contest will be reading tonight at the Pinhook in downtown Durham starting...

#2: culture! * How HBO changed TV. * Is Sarah Connor canceled? * Europe names crew for simulated mission to Mars. Devotees may remember t...

They call me Jerry Two-Times because I say everything twice. Jerry Canavan, a Duke graduate student who was waiting for the train with his...

A second test of my new camera (in outdoor conditions!) from the Durham train station this morning. You'll note Jaimee's level of c...

Happy birthday, Jaimee! Everyone else, I'll be back with posts tomorrow.

Jaimee and I both have capsule reviews in the Indy 's end-of-the-year booklist . I wrote about Bolaño and Jaimee about Aravind Adiga...

7%: my odds of divorcing in the next five years . Via Freakonomics .

Anyone ever heard of this guy Jerry Seinfeld? He came to Raleigh last night and Jaimee took me out to see him. I gotta admit, he was pretty...

Jaimee and I have the cover story in the Independent this week with our long , loooong -promised article on Peak Oil and alternative energ...

Updating this post , anyone looking to get a new laptop in the near future should think about grabbing one of the original recipe MacBooks ...