Gradon Tripp

26 years ago today, my mother died.
Emma Mae Waters was getting out of work at the New Hampshire state mental hospital, where she was a nurse. While on her way to her car, she was abducted by Robert Bruneau, her estranged and abusive husband — my stepfather. Long story short, she didn’t get out of [...]

Earlier this week, Vanity Fair put out an article featuring 6 women they deemed “America’s Tweethearts”. Each of these women has garnered a significant audience through Twitter and other social media tools… but the main point the article seemed to stress was that these women were physically attractive (in addition to painting them as more [...]

When’s the last time you heard a guy give his two-week notice?
Over the last several months, I’ve heard countless stories of friends getting laid off. From every industry imaginable. Both of my friends that write DesignBoston with me were let go in the last few weeks (Joyce is on vacation in Aruba, so I don’t [...]

I’ll admit it: I love my iBook. That dinosaur of a laptop is like my little-engine-that-could.
It’s over 4 years old. It’s harddrive is small enough that I have to do the what-can-I-delete-what-can-I-save game. It’s not the fastest, or the prettiest. The neck of the power cord has been slowly falling apart for some time. But [...]

When you think of punk rockers, what comes to mind?
A bunch of strung out, skinny white kids rebelling against any and everything, all at once?
If so, take a look at Bad Brains, circa 1979.