You Can’t Hope To Silence Phillybloggers, You Can Only Hope To Contain Them

Well well well! Just a few weeks after Inga Saffron reported on 1352 Lofts’ annexation of the sidewalk on South Street¹, good ol’ Rimas Properties is at it again.

This time, someone from Rimas Properties — or some sort of weird person posing as a lawyer for Rimas Properties, which would be awesome — called up Phillyblog and started saying words like “libel” and “slander,” according to one of the co-founders. (If somebody said “slander,” that’s kind of odd, since as far as I know nobody was posting audio files to Phillyblog to bash Rimas.) The posts were taken down.

Naturally, the good users of Phillyblog have exploded in a way that only people on the Internet can, with famed poster EastChestnut asking for a wheelchair so he can pretend to be paraplegic and protest and people getting angry at Phillyblog for not wanting to deal with lawyers angry ‘cuz people called Rimas Properties a cunt or whatever. Oh, and they’re writing letters and trying to organize a protest; as you can see from the photo, the sidewalk isn’t even big enough for Philadelphians over 250 pounds, i.e. most Philadelphians.

In non-Phillyblog advocacy, the Design Advocacy Group is also angry, even though they are probably slim and fit, with all that advocacy and all.

Update: But, damn, is this place nice-looking! Not only that, but you’d get to look out your window and laugh at people trying to squeeze by on the sidewalk, too. Also nice: The Big Green Building, which is apparently powered by its own awesomeness.

¹ Oh, also apparently I bashed ‘em too in PW. And then it was corrected in a letter. I don’t remember any of this, being in an antidepressant- and codeine-induced haze for the past five years.

Where did the “sidewalk grab” thread go? More censorship? [Phillyblog]
1352 Lofts - Letter to City Council [Phillyblog]
Take Back Our Sidewalks! [DAG]