Cablevision is said to have finally abandoned its acquisition of city-blog shop Gothamist. Entertainingly enough, Gothamist founder Jake Dobkin can reportedly blame his big mouth for scotching the deal.

Cablevision boss Jim Dolan has created such a PR trainwreck around his supposed acquisition of blog network Gothamist it's hard to imagine the deal ever closing. Dolan's bullying of a journalist may have already killed the shaky-looking deal.

We hear Cablevision's much-heralded acquisition of blog network Gothamist might be imploding. That would certainly help explain why Gothamist is trying to hire its own sales guy, a month after news of its supposed acquisition.

We now know the yearly value of a dick joke: $20,800. A company owned by Jimmy Dolan, Cablevision CEO and new owner of Gothamist, has pulled a $400/week ad from the Village Voice after it joked about his penis.

Our old weekend editor Foster Kamer made a joke about Cablevision CEO James Dolan shoving his penis down another man's throat. Now Cablevision is sending angry emails and assembling a legal team.

PaidContent says that the 14-city Gothamist network of blogs has been sold to Cablevision-owned Rainbow Media for $5-6 million. Founder Jake Dobkin can now talk trash about the New York Times from atop a solid gold fixie bike.

TMZ's managing editor asked a pressing boob question; Twitter's founder inflated a newspaper article; and a TechCrunch writer puffed up her sources. The Twitterati were swell.

Free booze was sought for Gothamist; freaky flasher pics were sent to Gizmodo; and Busy Philipps' day was ruined. The Twitterati asked for one thing and got something else entirely.

Gothamist took aim, Felix Salmon took a swipe and Jason Linkins took stock. The Twitterati were on the receiving end.

Dobkin is the co-founder and publisher of Gothamist, the network of 14 city-specific blogs around the world. His partner in the venture is Jen Chung.

No matter how much we kid the Gothamists, we're the first to declare that head Gothamista Jake Dobkin is a helluva lensman. Not only did he capture and reconstruct this excellent panorama of the Guggenheim Museum during the recent exhibition by architect Zaha Hadid, but he did so while avoiding capture and execution by the Goog's ever-watchful anti-photo fascists. Someday we'll indulge our fantasy of dumping a load of superballs down that curvy ramp, docents be damned.

The Gothamist's Jake Dobkin takes Lockhart Steele up on his challenge and reviews Rice to Riches in excruciating detail. Jake's description of the interior: "do you remember that place Bot that opened next to Rice on Mott Street? Well, if that place got into a threesome with the Remote Lounge on Bowery and a Haagen Daas, this is the mutant child that would result." Another Gawker reader writes, "I have, along with my friend who lives on Bowery and Spring, decided to do a box contest on when Rice to Riches will go down in flames and then be rebuilt into the seed bodega it should be. For 5 dollars you can buy a box - the X axis will be month and the Y axis will be day. I expect the X axis to be no more than two rows deep."
Rice to Riches reviewed [Gothamist]