So wholesome to listen to the very poetic, little but deep feelings and observations by Kautuk Srivastava on becoming a father. Big fan of his sensitive observations and acknowledgement of little but very very important things of life. Brought a great smile this one
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sounds to calm crying baby: happy clap-a-long sunshine giggles and kisses whee yay

sounds to put baby to sleep: doomer locomotive train plays 11/4 jazz drum solo ft. cosmic radiation ft. call of cthulhu ASMR

At that stage where I still can't tell what my daughter feels about me. For eg: recently, felt so happy when she gave me a broad, full-hearted smile.

... but then, soon after, she gave the exact same smile to a table lamp. So 🤷‍♂️

Love this poem by Alice White:

What’s unsaid
is usually on fire

One of the hard parts about living with performers is that they reserve their very best selves for strangers.

Nothing keeps people together than shared delusions.

This is exactly what it feels like when a joke starts working. You completely forget the number of silences it encountered and the tweaks you made to resuscitate it.

Kautuk Srivastava Same, but with Mainoo

Weird new feeling I get as a parent: I feel a little sweet-sad looking at my daughter and thinking about how soon she's going to grow up and how this moment will be lost so very quickly.

Creativity is quite wholesome if you think about it. The heart of it is that if you look hard enough there is a connection between everything, no matter how far apart they may seem at first.

Is there a podcast by a plastic surgeon called 'Botalks' yet?

“History decays into images, not into stories.”

— Walter Benjamin (The Arcades Project, tr. Eiland et al.)

One way to not be cringe is to stop thinking in terms of cringe v non-cringe and start thinking in terms of honest v dishonest. Never seen anything said honestly be cringey.

There will come a time when we will see a live-action 'Saanp Seedhi' film starring Alia Bhatt. I'm sure of it.

Really enjoyed this line by Paula Mejia, writing about the essence of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'. She said the show was about: How to be a decent person in the world when the goalposts for decency are always shifting?

Thanks to comedy, I'm always operating at the very limits of my ignorance.

Martin Scorcese is still such a great content creator. 👏