Storming the Bastille
Jul 13, 2008 in Geek, Personal, Politics
Yesterday I went to one of the most delightfully zany Philadelphia traditions. For 14 years now, the Fairmount CDC has been hosting a Bastille Day event. they close off the street in front of Eastern State Penitentiary, local restaurants serve some French food, and at 5:30 they reenact the storming of the Bastille at ESP. It’s a terribly hokey affair (for example, Marie Antoinette remembers the first Bastille Day, “I was talking to John McCain”). The highlight, though, is clearly the following: