Don't we face enough fucking imponderables?

Al Swearenegen on Deadwood

Via Brian Haley on Twitter. We do face a lot of fucking imponderables, IMO.

I come from a sport where chivalry never died and no one is allowed to say anything negative because it is "unsportsmanlike" and every cyclist has to play his part in the farcical pageant of being a dull, humble farmer's son.

"Behind F1's Velvet Curtain", Kate Wagner for Road and Track

Of course I was going to include the mysteriously pulled "Beloved Socialist Kate Wagner Goes To Formula One" essay this week, it was an incredible read. There were a lot more poignant sentences than these ones but for atmosphere I also loved the following:

My knife clattered and startled one of the wives.

Everything is just manners with nothing inside.

This is the eternal story of labor and management; it just has hot people in it, in this case.

"The Money is in All The Wrong Places", Kelsey McKinney for Defector

Horny jail is not real.

"Why Can't People Be Normal About Sydney Sweeney?", Kelsey McKinney for Defector

Submitted by Bill. Kelsey's other great piece of Sydney Sweeney reportage, above, was making the rounds again either because of this essay or because of Sydney Sweeney Discourse. I don't think Kelsey set out to be Chief Sydney Sweeney Correspondent but she is really killing it in that role.

The heart is a mysterious anthropomorphized muscle.

"March is the Cruelest Month", Hallie Haglund in their newsletter

Also submitted by Bill.

Instead of designing a film in the way a building is designed I prefer to build a film in the way birds build a nest.

Harun Farocki in correspondence with Forensic Architecture

From the introduction to the book Investigative Aesthetics.