folly

so you ask What Is Folly? and a wise guy says that it is the season after Summery and immediately preceding Wintery

and then you say Seriously? and the wise guy says that though Seriously is not a season, the weather has been known to become Seriously Hot or Seriously Cold or Seriously Humid

and then you stop asking the wise guy and you dig and you find that the word derives from the old french Folie which at core meant Madness but also had notes of Stupidity and Delight

you dig more and find that the Folies-Bergère was established in 1869 and later in 1882 during the Belle Epoque its bar was immortalized by Edouard Manet and a fun fact is that he put a bottle of Bass Pale Ale on the bar

and having dug and digging the dig you dug you realize that Ziegfeld’s Follies and Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley are also part of the tapestry

as are we all

in this crazy stupid delightful world