The bloggers of 10 S. Boulevard seem to be in a bit of a jam. They proudly named the blog after their apartment building, which I walk by sometimes twice a day, and I enjoyed the blog's posts on "Police Drama", "Fire Truck Craziness," and "Accidents At The Intersection of Doom (Boulevard/Main/Elwood [sic.])." I thought the headlines employed a drugstore-checkout tabloid verve: "BANG! Car and Tree Clash Closing Southbound Boulevard; Crape Myrtled!" and "Taxi Tragedy At The Triangle!" The photographs of Park Avenue fires and car crashes near their corner almost every other day were often dramatic. And the recitations of crime, mostly petty and perfunctory, were good eye-on-the-street notes.

The site was praised by the waggish Tobacco Avenue and Outside/in. It was recognized by RVA News readers as a "Best Kept Secret."

Not quite as secret was the blog's somewhat strained relationship with the company managing its building; with occasional notations of leaks, falling plaster, cockroaches and other quotidian aspects of the renter's life, not to mention a Sept. 28, 2008, laundry list of alleged failings by the management company.

This created a MASH 4077th quality to the blog, as though, even though things were tough, the observations of life's absurdities would get them through. Except, apparently, they didn't.

Walking home last Friday, I saw moving trucks and a POD out front. And I should've asked there and then: What up? After all, I'd seen some of the occupants videotaping and photographing accidents that would soon be up on 10 S. Boulevard's site.

The blog's Twitter feed evaporated, and the last post (until today) was on July 15. After hearing rumors swirling around about an eviction, I contacted primary writer Peter Feddo, who told me via e-mail, "My hyperlocal blogging and complaints to the city re: code violations did result in an unfortunate end to my lease. Currently blogging in exile from North Boulevard and Henrico until my new lease begins at 301 S. Boulevard." His account of the eviction has now been posted.

Feddo, who earns his keep as an online political consultant, explained to me, "We started the blog as a tool for organizing tenants in the building and writing about the mundane things that concerned us." He was evicted through a court order prompted by owner Larry Hollister's insistence that Feddo hadn't paid his rent. Feddo claims he sent the check on time.

I phoned Hollister, who manages various properties along the grand Boulevard and its tributary streets. When I asked about Feddo's numerous complaints about the condition of his building, Hollister told me that back porch and staircase repairs will be completed by week's end. He characterized Feddo as "just a troublemaker," while asserting that the eviction was about unpaid rent.

Which isn't to say that Hollister wasn't bothered by what he felt was the evocation of his property's address as a kind of focal point for crime, car wrecks and general misdemeanoring. "It didn't reflect well on my property, do you think?" Hollister asked.

I'm not sure where all this is going to end. Hollister got Feddo out, but the blogger and his merry band will be returning to the blogosphere "in a week or so," Feddo says, with a site called The Boulevardizen. Though currently undergoing a brief exile in Henrico County, Feddo will soon be taking up residence a few blocks away from his old apartment, still on South Boulevard.