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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:

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