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Thursday, August 21, 2008

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Blogger and book designer Dean Allen on watching people get bopped on the head.

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Rosecrans Baldwin
TMN co-editor Rosecrans Baldwin lives in Paris, France. He founded The Morning News with Andrew Womack in 1999 and has been waking up early ever since. He currently writes the Letters from Paris column. His work has elsewhere appeared in The New York Times, New York, The Nation, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. His personal web site is useless. Every month he makes a new Muxtape. Someday his ashes will be tossed off Mount Desert Island. His first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out soon with Riverhead Books.
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Site: Textism

DOB: 2 June, 1966

What do you do:
Scowl at blocks of text

Favorite book:
Charlotte’s Web

Heroes:
Bare Bones Software

What makes you laugh:
I tried once to devise a formula for this, with elements of expectation and surprise, suffering and non sequiturs, but I always come back to seeing someone bopped on the head with a long-handled Turkish coffee pot.

Charity worth giving to:
Médecins Sans Frontières

Five words that sound good:
Imbroglio, luncheon, dipsomaniac, gymnasium, figpecker
—Published September 27, 2001