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Readers Cameraphone: The Rittenhouse Chupacabra? Says our reader: “Or just a really ugly piece of roadkill on 20th Street. Or if you have to tie it into your current theme, this is how I picture Arthur Kade‘s soul.” Either way, we say, it’s nasty. And curious at the same time. So, yeah, we definitely get your Kade/roadkill vibe. Whoa. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. 13 Responses to “Readers Cameraphone: The Rittenhouse Chupacabra?”Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. | YOUR PHILEBRITY.COM: Editor & Co-Founder: Joey Sweeney Contributing Editor: Jim Adair Contributing Writers: Conor Corcoran Schoolly D Ad Sales & Marketing/Promos: Katie Winkler Interns: Madeline Bates Sharon Margolis Co-Founder/Philebritus Emeritus: Benny Philebrity Send listings info here. NOTICE: Interns wanted.
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June 24th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Sweet jebus. Can no one in this city identify a possum? See also: http://www.philebrity.com/2009/06/11/readers-cameraphone-only-this-cats-owner-could-love-this-cat-and-apparently-she-doesnt-either/
June 24th, 2009 at 10:41 am
yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s a possum and not a goatsucker.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:42 am
I was riding down the road one day and
Someone hit a possum
I was riding down the road one day and
Someone hit a possum
The road was his end
His end was the road
So they say
June 24th, 2009 at 10:54 am
http://www.shmittenkitten.com/2009/06/surprisingly-not-bonerkiller-you-like.html
June 24th, 2009 at 11:19 am
The dead possum likes Phish?
June 24th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Wow. I guess his boner was killed.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
two things…..
1) In the Western Hemisphere they are actually called Opossums. Possums live in Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum
2) A roadkill opossum may very well have living babies in the pouch. There is some opossum rescue lady in the area that will come get them and nurse them along. Can’t find her phone number though. In case you didn’t know, opossums love to eat mice and large bugs so they are great to have around.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
JP215, you just made me feel like one of the Von Trapp kids after Maria sits on the pine cone one of them placed on her chair, and then talks about how delightful and welcoming the children have been.
June 24th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
I’m torn on this one.
On one hand, yes, that creature is most definitely Kade’s soul. (I mean, you could take that photo, iron it onto one of those half-sleeve T-shirts that have colors on the half sleeves, graphicize it with a simple “Kade’s Soul” and sell them for $25 a pop on Rittenhouse Square whatever night the doucefreaks come out.)
But on the other, it may be a more apt (apter?) description before the creature lay dead in the street. The teeth alone cry for live-action.
June 24th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Douchefreaks, that is.
June 24th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Where I come from (the East Coast of the United States of America) we call ‘em possums. We drop the “o” because it’s too much trouble to say in the heat of the moment at night when you’ve just run one over.
Anyone who insists on calling them oppossums must be some kind of city slicker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppossum
“They are commonly also called possums, though that term is also applied to Australian fauna of the suborder Phalangeriformes. The Virginia Opossum is the original animal named opossum. The word comes from Algonquian wapathemwa.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Opossum
“Colloquially, the Virginia Opossum is frequently called simply possum. The name is applied more generally to any of the other marsupials of the Didelphimorphia and Paucituberculata orders, which includes a number of opossum species in South America.
“The possums of Australia, whose name is derived from a similarity to the Virginia Opossum, are also marsupials, but of the order Diprotodontia.”
June 24th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Wait, I thought Opossum was Algonquian for ‘the good land’ .. ?
June 24th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
“Opossums” is used by embryo-like victims of nature deficit disorder.
Possums are a relatively recent arrival in the northeast: historically, they were once relegated to the southern part of N. America, but have managed to migrate northwards over the past two centuries.