Lately, I haven’t had any good ideas. Just regular, everyday ideas that don’t seem substantial enough to even record. I’m taking in what I read, and observing what’s around me, but I don’t know. My observations don’t catalyze new ideas.

I liked it

I finished Lonesome Dove this morning. I feel as if the rest of my week has already been ruined, and I’m in the snake pit with Sean.

Here is the first publication of my 3 week newsletter reflecting on The Recognitions and its idea of forgeries. This book has become significant to me, and I want to share some of the ideas that stuck the most! #booksky #writing open.substack.com/pub/zachbuza...

This Friday, I’m going to start a short, three week newsletter series. It’ll reflect on the ideas of forgeries on the human scale. This is in lieu of completing The Recognitions. First newsletter will be this Friday! #booksky substack.com/@hacz/note/c...

Midnight pasta aglio e olio 🤌🍷

I’m an idiot and still make bash scripts by hand. Manual scripting

Cozy little morning

I can’t wait 😭

The pitch is that they won’t sell you the system directly. It’ll be bundled into a lease with Gamepass. Gamepass price will be like $30/50/75 a month for Gamepass access + tiers of the hardware. I think console gaming is going the way of cell phone contracts. Consoles were never a money maker anyway

Got my boy

Got my little place feeling vibey

Got a teapot for my nightly citron tea routine

I lost my save, so gonna restart as someone else. I love this game though.

Also started my first play through of Octopath Traveler 2, and damn. I knew Octopath had this cool HD-2D style, but it’s so good.

Checking in to remind future me, on this day in July 2026, I slept all the way through the night for a full, unbroken, 8.5 hours of sleep. Woke up with bed head and all.

In 8 chapters into Lonesome Dove and damn. The scenic writing is so good. I feel like I’m there at the campfire with Gus and Call. #booksky

Hollywood smells like a cookout today and I love it.

Drove the Civic thru the backrooms

Glad the drama is out of Inglewood.

Before starting Lonsome Dove some quick thoughts after completing Angel Down: it had a really promising structure building through it, but I don't think it earned it's ambiguous ending; overall it didn't land for me. Strip the single-sentence gimmick and I'm not sure it wins the Pulitzer. #booksky

Next up on my summer reading list, Lonesome Dove. I’m very excited for this one. It’s been on my “shelf” since 2017. Completing The Recognitions and Angel Down put me in a headspace for wanting a slow burn story with deep characters. I’ve heard crying is normal for this one lol #booksky

I worry for the city of Memphis. Ja brought in ticket and merch sales they/the franchise desperately need.

Hey @barackobama.bsky.social part 2 of A Promised Land when?

~50 pages into Angel Down and I’m not sure I’m feeling it. I see the allure of the McCarthy-esque descriptions of violence, and I’m intrigued by the single sentence prose; the relentless momentum is a little hard to stay with. #booksky

Hey, Y’all are forgetting your socials and addresses when you do these, we need that info too. Sincerely, Someone who definitely doesn’t have nefarious intentions with your data

Today, we finish The Recognitions. I’ve been with this goon for just under 4 weeks, and it’s completely changed my outlook on tackling postmodern literature. #booksky

The "is Culver's fast casual" discourse is very funny from where I grew up. In Northern Indiana that was the nice restaurant. On a good night my parents could swing it I would have gotten the shrimp, and would have felt like a Kennedy. Back then, a well done piece of steak & ketchup was extravagant.

Wait until they learn about the cheese curds.

Interestingly, Gaddis wrote something similar in The Recognitions when Benny kills himself on live TV. This was in 1950 lol

I’m nearing the end of The Recognitions. In ~900 pages, Gaddis enlightened two things: Everyone smoked like it was necessary. Everyone was sure they were the most genuine person in the room. 75 years later, the only difference is our understanding of cigarettes. We’re all frauds lol #booksky

I found a lake this last weekend where the ducks and I dawdled.

My letter to Game Scoop, thanks for all you do! @daemzero.bsky.social @errorjustin.bsky.social @markmedina.bsky.social @adventnick.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/zachbuza...

Real life Ogre protecting his swamp

Punctual ≠ Reliable They are not interchangeable and mean different things. Being punctual is a singular trait of appearing reliable. I thought this was obvious.

Dodgers game!

Finished 11/22/63 today. Geesh. I feel like I need a day to recoup.

Lost a chess match so bad this morning the whole outlook of my day changed. Not sure I even know who I am.

My sweetest boy🥰

Wrote a handful of letters to various correspondents and walking to the post in haste

Pilots checking into the Argentina game lol

Reposting: I’ve operated in environments with strict rules of engagement, and the bar for using lethal force was higher than “it moved toward me.” A dog at an apartment door is not a threat that justifies lethal force. I live here, and I’m tired. Uneducated goons are getting paid too much.

I'm wrapping up 11/22/63 (traveling back in time to save Kennedy) while a crew spent the weekend unscrewing a man's name off the actual Kennedy center. The past is obdurate, indeed. The future harmonizes.

Trying to convince my friends to join Bluesky

Solid lunch break

Happy for the Knicks, sad for Wemby

Short, but fun little paper on this weekend in America. I’m not normally one to get caught in the whirlwind of current events, but this is worth writing about. substack.com/@hacz/note/p...

a man is going to get kneed in the liver on the south lawn of the white house tomorrow night and i regret to report it is only the third strangest thing happening this weekend lol

Do you think trillionaire meat is like the waygu of the rich?

One handsome. One demure. One just happy to be here. My cats on #caturday