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REVIEW: Black Swan – more than just hot girls kissing and dancing

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Last night, after sitting through what seemed like interminable CYO basketball games, the wife and I got to eat at Friendly’s (Kickin’ Buffalo Chicken and a Reese’s Pieces Sundae, thank you) and went to the movies to see Black Swan, the new Darren Aronofsky movie. Let me begin by saying that if you didn’t like

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Running away with the Cirque… us!

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Yesterday, I took Mrs. Lydonwrites and Mother Lydonwrites to see the Cirque du Soleil show DRALION. I owed Mother Lydonwrites for her birthday in November, and this was the Mrs’ Xmas gift, but of course, I went along too. If you’ve never seen Cirque du Soleil, you don’t know that seeing it is a gift to yourself,

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REVIEW: 1812 Productions’ This Is The Week That Is

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If you’ve ever wanted to go up to NYC to see The Daily Show, but couldn’t, for whatever reason, I’ve got the next best thing: 1812 Productions’ This Is The Week That Is, running through Friday, 12/31/10 at Philadelphia’s Plays and Players Theater.

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I Am the Victor : a short musing on where we dined for our anniversary

Posted by lydonwrites under *like, Food, Music | Leave a Comment |

Took the summer off mostly. Sorry about that, MLD. I return to tell you of a culinary adventure embarked upon by yours truly and Mrs Lydonwrites, namely our anniversary dinner at the Victor Cafe in South Philly. The Victor Cafe is situated at 1301 Dickinson St and is a converted row house (like many fine

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LydonReviews Dinner for Schmucks

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Last night after a dinner in Langhorne, PA at Jimmy Buffet’s Cheeseburger in Paradise, which warrants a post about crappy cover bands (a topic I know a thing or two about as PTB and KevinMLD will surely remember from my previous Diary of a Bass Player column from the old Break Even site), my wife

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