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Meet the people
who make Tripod
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Bet Alwin
Editorial Director
[email protected]
Bet is a perpetual 18-year-old living happily inside a 40-something body.
Bet brought with her to Tripod two decades of experience in traditional and
new media writing and creative direction. Bet thinks that gendered pronouns
are divisive, regularly roots out fatal flaws from written American English,
and takes pride in usually having the shortest hair in any office. On eating
and other nourishments, Bet enjoys organic gardening (a vegetarian constantly
striving to be vegan), hiking, mountain biking, travelling, shootin' pool,
reading, and of course, writing, writing, writing.
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Gayle O'Brien
Staff Writer
[email protected]
Gayle is the second in Tripod's collection of staff
named Gayle/Gail who have graduated from Sarah Lawrence College
(hey, hardly anyone else collects them!). To avoid any confusion
we call her by her e-mail address: gobrien. Gayle's rubber band
shooting skills improved rapidly during her days in the membership
department when she sat WAY too close to Dwayne's office. When she isn't shooting rubber bands at her unsuspecting editorial colleagues, Gayle can be found gardening, snowboarding, waxing her new car, and chasing her two cats.
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Anna Groskin
Staff Writer
[email protected]
Anna comes to us fresh from Williams. We needed someone young to
bring our age curve back under 30, and she's it. She kind of
has this jockish/angry chick thing going, and we think it's rad.
She loves cubicles, running (with Jay), and riding her mountain
bike. Anna was a Californian in one of her former lives, and will
be again.
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Michael Bronder
Senior Taxonomist
[email protected]
You think you've hired a mild mannered book store clerk and he suddenly
morphs into Señor Taxonomisto! El Señor arrived armed with a
stuffed squirrel — a gift from a misguided friend who though he was
becoming a taxidermist — and a passion for taxonomy, the obscure science of
indexing and categorizing things. Space required that we crop out the
fierce looking mounted policeman glaring at Mike in this beer guzzling
photo, but El Señor wants it publicly known that, while he will
certainly drink Budweiser, his current favorite commercial beer is Harpoon
IPA, on tap at Williamstown's Purple Pub.
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Barak Blackburn
Taxonomy Editor
[email protected]
Barak (not Bark, not Mark, not Borak, not Borax, but Barak) was
lured to Tripod by his old pal the
Toymaker. The bait? A stash of indie films, bootleg Ween CDs,
and
Evil Elf cookie jars. He raised a ruckus a while back with his
'zine "Mister Density," and he's a card-carrying
reverend. He likes cats. He likes Coca-cola. And he owes it
all to
Crispin Glover.
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David Martel
Taxonomy Editor
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In college, David was President of the Dr. Seuss Mutual Appreciation Society,
and hosted a milk and cookies memorial service attended by nearly 400 people when
the good doctor passed away. David now devotes his time to his wife, his three precious
children, their two dogs, and a cat. Before coming to Tripod, David explored some rather
eccentric careers. He was a garbage man (a.k.a. Sanitation Engineer), a glassblower,
and a home-school teacher for a semi-nomadic family with five children.
This could all be explained by the fact that David began watching "Saturday Night Live" at the
age of 6.
Or maybe not.
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Adam Wienert
Taxonomy Editor
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When Adam was younger, his sister Jenny
once rolled him up in a carpet when he was bothering her. Even after
Adam was unrolled, and Jenny was punished, he still remembers it as
a traumatic childhood experience. Adam seems to have had many of these —
mostly involving his teeth. He had braces at by the time he was seven,
and 12 teeth pulled before he was 14. Now that his carpet and teeth issues
are over, he's glad to be in the trauma-free Taxonomy Dept. at Tripod. And,
wow, does he have nice teeth.
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Pete Kahle
Taxonomy Editor
[email protected]
Pete is our most recent addition to the Tripod Taxonomy team. Hailing from a dinky
little burg in upstate New York, Pete went to Binghamton University with fellow
Tripodians Barak Blackburn, Matt Goldberg, and Chris Young, where he received a degree in Theater, which
he has yet to use. In his spare time, he consumes massive amounts of science
fiction, participates in five (yes, five) fantasy sports leagues, and eats more sushi than a
seal. On special occasions (like Halloween), Pete morphs into a cyborg. Watch out!
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