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Dean Allen

by Rosecrans Baldwin

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

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
biopic

Rosecrans Baldwin co-founded The Morning News. His latest book, Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, has just been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. An excerpt is available at GQ. More information can be found at his website. More by Rosecrans Baldwin