Who Killed Rian Thal?
By now, you may have heard about Saturday’s tragic muder of Philly party promoter Rian Thal, along with friend Timothy Gilmore, in the Navona building at the Piazza at Schmidt’s. We didn’t know Rian, but she was our neighbor back when Philebs was based on Hancock St. in Northern Liberties, and she was also, apparently, our MySpace friend. One of the weirdest things about modern death is the digital trail it leaves; refracted through her violent and untimely death — whatever it was she was into, she didn’t deserve this — some of her MySpace blog postings reveal a person not unfamiliar with beef:
Monday, May 12, 2008
one other question , that has to be Known
Current mood: calm
Category: Life
Here is another question: Why do people always try to make themselves better than others?Is it because by doing so they feel like your equal, which they are truly are NOT, or is it just because they really want to be YOU, which they will NEVER BE. They talk to you like there more educated than you are, but the truth is they do not even have a collage degree. They try to impress you with what they are trying to be, whether its a promoter, stylist, model or even a scholar , but again its all a facade, they come from fucked up families, and try to be someone or something there really are NOT. The only thing I cannot understand is why they continue to make them selves look like an asshole, when EVERYBODY sees through all the bullshit. I think it makes them want to believe that they are somewhat important and actual are liked by some, which there NOT. The truth is the people/persons that you are trying to impress, see rite through you. In addition, do not even want to associate with you , like I always say “at the end of the day, it is what it is ” The only thing that you are really accomplishing is confirmation on what everybody already knows THAT YOU TRULY ARE A MISSERABLE FUCKING BITCH
Who knows what this was all about, or whether it had anything to do at all with the awful fate that met her and Gilmore on Saturday. What we do know is that three assailants are on the lam, still, and that this was not what you’d call a perfect crime by any stretch of the imagination. There’s multiple angles of video, lots of people around outside the building when it happened, and, it’s safe to assume, beef going in every direction. Sad.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I had a similar digital/real life connection to Rian as we attended the same high school. She was a year behind me in school and, while I really only vaguely remember her name, we shared dozens of Facebook friends and it was sad to see all the RIP status updates spring up throughout the weekend. I’m hopeful that her killers will be arrested soon.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Sad
June 29th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I’m so sorry. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones. FYI, don’t read the comments on the NBC site. They will ruin your day.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
This is a horrible and tragic event and I certainly hope that the perpetrators will be caught and brought to justice.
However, I also find it sad that her blog posting complaining about a certain someone who doesn’t even have a “collage” degree is riddled with so many grammatical and spelling errors.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
re: “We didn’t know Rian”
Then I guess I shouldn’t ask whether she was the Philebrity coke connection. Was she?
June 29th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Damn, Allan. Be nice.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
As much as I dislike the DN they sometimes know how to report a story right…
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20090629_Party_girl__friend_slain_at_Nothern_Liberties__Schmidts_complex.html
June 29th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Blatstein never gets a fuckin’ break with the morons. Its a conspiracy!
http://www.phila-tribune.com/channel/cityregion/121506/pearl.asp
June 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Drugs are bad, mmmkay. It is what it is.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:35 pm
The trajedy that happened to Rian should be a strong message to you middle / upper middle class suburban “WHITE GIRLS” who have good families, go to good schools who think it’s “COOL” to get seriously involved with ni–ers, thugs, and drugs because they feel their good life is too boring and straight that they need that extra excitement and negative drama that comes along with that kind of lifestyle. I knew Rian and went to school with her, and was friends with her. Honestly, it’s a shame but I don’t have much sympathy for her. If you wanna play high roller, you’re gonna pay! Eventually, you’re either gonna get busted and go to jail, or lose your life. It’s the nature of the business, it’s the “SMUGGLER’S BLUES”. Don’t get me wrong, what happened to her could happen to anybody in that business. When you take a young, white girl especially a Jewish girl who is from the upper middle class suburbs, who is naive, vulnerable, and doesn’t have street sense, who decides to date and do dangerous business with people outside her race, what do you think is gonna happen? A girl like that becomes the ultimate bait in the shark tank!