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Flow Rida

Great article [Cover Story, "Riding Dirty," Brian Howard and Michael M. Koehler, April 16, 2009]. Like you, I often wondered about the rivers that surround our city and how they are so overlooked by those so close. My curiosity got best of me two summers ago when I took my small, one-year-old power boat up from the Delaware into the Schuylkill all the way to the Art Museum. A very interesting but unnerving trip — I was the only recreational boat on the entire length of the Schuylkill — and those tugboats are to be feared. The area around the Art Museum needs to be developed for docking or mooring of pleasure boats and kayaks. I think it would be a fantastic addition to the revitalization.

Enjoyed this a lot, Brian. So did you make good on the weed and bitches?

Brian Howard responds: Thanks for writing, Rebecca. I've been asked this more than once and the official answer is no, of course not, that would be illegal. I've also been asked if I could have at least "made good on the bitches" part. First let me say that I'm loathe to create an environment where people just throw the B word around in our Feedback section. Second, since City Paper does not run an escort service, the best I can do in my capacity here is to suggest that the residents of the facility flip to the back portion of our publication.

Just to get the facts straight: While Satanic Butt Slayer has been hailed as one of the greatest bands ever to throw cheese at their fans, we never received corporate status [Naked City, "A Million Stories: What was that about church and state?" Daniel Schwartz, April 16, 2009]. Unless "fictitious name" counts as incorporated. I saw the same reference in the same context in The New York Times.

I think Mr. Kalman should be allowed to name his business as he sees fit, but then again I think that Babar the Elephant telepathically writes songs through me.