Announcement

I am pleased and honored to announce that I have been invited to move City of Brass to BeliefNet.com. Effective next week, I will be posting at my new URL (http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/ - but don't go yet, there's not much there at present). If you are subscribed to my feed, you needn't change anything, you should be redirected automatically.

I am really excited about this opportunity and I think that it will be a lot of fun. See you over there!

painfully self-aware

More than a few people have brought the seeming hiatus in blogging here at City of Brass to my attention with alarm, asking if I have shuttered this site in favor of a sexier project (Talk Islam, which if you aren't reading, you SHOULD be).

However, while I admit to being distracted of late, nothing could be further from the truth. City of Brass is not going anywhere. Stay tuned, if you've stuck through te drought this long already.


FWIW, I am going to retire the Carnival of Brass, however, in favor of Talk Islam. More details later.

I am converting to Scientology

It's been a great ride, oh ummah, but here's where I get off.

"goodbye, evrybody... I've got to go..."



"Bismillah NO! We will not let you go!"

some new voices around here

I'm leaving for a trip to Colombo tomorrow afternoon and will be gone all of next week. However, City of Brass won't be moribund while I am away; in fact I am recruiting some guest bloggers to fill in for me while I'm off. I'll leave their identities a surprise, for now :)

comments disabled

a minor admin note; since I blog so infrequently, I think it best to disable comments on the blog. I would prefer to keep conversations at a blog-to-blog level via Technorati links. I've just had too many spam comments on ancient posts recently to make it worth my while to keep comments open here. Maybe if Blogger supports comment expiration later I'll restore commenting in the future.

blush

I was surprised - pleasantly so - to find that one of my posts here was nominated for a Koufax Award.

I am genuinely thankful for the accolade - I consider it an honor enough to have been nominated, alongside the other several dozen examples of truly excellent writing in the Best Post category.