Going dot com

When Chris Blattman was last in Liberia, we talked about blogs. And Kindles and enumerators and a lot of other things too, but also a lot about blogs. He was just about to launch his new site christblattman.com and was looking for a header image.

I pulled out my laptop and started flipping through files of images. I asked him what kind of thing he was looking for. He wasn't sure, he said.

But, no children.
And, no Africans dancing.

No problem, I said. I have tons of photos of all kinds of things, and since most of his research coincidentally takes place in the two countries where I've spent the most time, this would work out nicely. As I scrolled through some thumbnails, he stopped and pointed to one of them and asked to see it full size.

It was of children dancing.


He finally settled on this image, from Karamoja.


Check out his new site for Lenin cakes, development experiments, and a belly proof golden summer.

(If I had been there, nothing could have kept me from taking a picture. Rules about respecting people's wishes to not be photographed be damned!)

And speaking of going dot com, next week I'll be launching ScarlettLion.com. Stay tuned for more info. It's been fun a fun lion sex filled run, blogspot, but it's time for me to go dot com.