Bradley Is Here

The Long Game

Living and Dying in Brainerd, Minnesota

Fargo feels like a dream in many ways; its colors are muted shades of grey bleeding into white, the interactions and dialogue are almost always in the uncanny just-not-quite-right range of realistic, and the events are heightened to the extreme (see wood chipper). Yet, it is a world and a group of characters that are achingly familiar. It is our world stripped to its most bare. It is a post-apocalyptic film for Middle America In The Nineties. In Fargo, just as in Fargo, there are those who have fallen into themselves, there are those who yearn for something else, those who have become so discontented with their lives they lose all semblance of empathy, and yes, there are even those who are doing alright.

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The Impulse

Those With Scaly Wings

THE SCOOP

* All species of butterfly originated from North America *

* Lepidoptera is the order containing butterflies and comes from the Greek for scaly wings *

* Monarch butterflies weigh about half of one gram *

* Almost 19 tons of butterflies overwintered in the forests of Mexico in 2025 *

* Mud-puddling is the behavior in which butterflies congregate in muddy, wet soil to gather minerals and water *

THE INSPIRATION

A 60 Minutes episode in which Anderson Cooper visits a forest in Mexico where the Monarchs live after their continental migration; they line the trees like the bark and leaves themselves and when Cooper and the guide are quiet, all you can hear is the flapping of butterfly wings.

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Word To Live By

Desultory | adjective

marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose

From the Latin Desultor meaning one who vaults

Words To Live By

Lucy Bloom | You can't be too careful | August 22, 2025

"Careful or no you'll make mistakes either way, but, as a matter of process, you ought to frequently be looking like an idiot."

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