I'm listening to a lot of Pavement in prep for Levitation this wknd. That band has perfected the dramatic pause.

The great @marissarmoss.bsky.social on how riding horses in the Hill Country led her to writing about country greats from Maren Morris and Kacey Musgraves to Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers—for @texashighways.bsky.social. texashighways.com/culture/an-e...

🚨🚨🚨🚨NEW: I met up with Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor for an exclusive digital cover story on the making and meaning of “Bohemian Rhapsody” for its 50th anniversary. Read here – and listen to an audio documentary! www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I love reading @marissarmoss.bsky.social's profiles in @rollingstone.com of my fave country musicians. So, I was excited to discover, from this essay she wrote for @texashighways.bsky.social, that her love of country comes from riding horses in Texas. #longreads texashighways.com/culture/an-e...

thanks @hoinski.bsky.social for bringing me in to ruminate on my summers riding horses in Texas, and how they shaped me as a country music fan long (something it took me many years to realize). always fun to get to go personal like this. texashighways.com/culture/an-e...

Always wanted to write about Selena. Thanks Mike and the equally superb @texashighways.bsky.social for helping me check that item off my bucket list.

The great @aruizcamacho.bsky.social mourned his mom's passing at the Selena Museum in Corpus Christi. Como la flor / con tanto amor / me diste tú / se marchitó / me marcho hoy / yo sé perder / pero ah-ah-ay ¡cómo me duele! texashighways.com/culture/corp...

I can’t boycott ABC because Jimmy Kimmel was literally the only show I watched on that lame network.

🎸 The @texashighways.bsky.social Music Issue is live. 🎸 @catcardenas.bsky.social profiles 5 up-and-comers in country, soul, rock, Americana, and Tejano. William Beckmann Chief Cleopatra Being Dead Briscoe Vanita Leo Turn it up. texashighways.com/culture/meet...

The cold opens on Saturday Night Live should be fire this season.

I wrote about Canelo versus Crawford, prize fighting, and how its ruthlessness is an inextricable part of this country. www.espn.com/boxing/story...

I am listening to bill Callahan sing a steely dan cover on my local radio station.

Highlight of the year? Definitely lcd soundsystem at emos.

Ray Charles.

Man, whatever happened to Jon Spencer blues explosion?

Last hour of the day and you’re trying to carve out a word or two to get to Amazing on the NYT Spelling Bee.

Run clubs? P'shaw. I'm starting a long-stepper club. We're talking 10 miles a clip. Across Austin. Stay tuned to this space.

New for @texasmonthly.bsky.social: My piece on the new exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, showcasing the American Modern art collection of a man who once described himself as a "poor man's Howard Hughes. Please give it a read: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Austin traffic has reached a new level.

Queen

I mean, really, follow @benzajdel.bsky.social. Basketball szn is about to begin.

Controversy in Austin! The city presents a new logo. And everyone groans.

I hope to be at 1k followers by this time next week. Do not disappoint!

Fifty years ago this month, Terry Gross took over at Fresh Air, changing the world of journalism forever. Gross and a slew of colleagues, competitors, and guests sat down with @petecroatto.bsky.social for this @phillymag.com oral history on the most important public radio show in American history.

On the way to school this morning, my daughter put steely Dan on the radio. Man, I am good at parenting.

Lovely story by Shannon Perri for @texashighways.bsky.social on the legacy her great-grandmother Gran Jeanne forged in the couture department at Neiman Marcus in the 1950s and ’60s. texashighways.com/culture/look...

“ … a special panel that would dole out financial damages to the rioters — much like the arrangement of a special master to award money to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead’s last ever show in austin. tapes, notes, scene reports, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite

Wake me up when Texas finally wins a big game.

"When Jones held a presser last night to announce the move — why would you INVITE people to ask you about this? Why wouldn’t you hide in a bunker somewhere? ... "

White Sand, New Mexico, USA - Raymond Depardon, 1982

I learned that my childhood friend Matt Pulley died. Heart attack, I think. 49 & fit. We played peewee football together. Later, we skated the half-pipe his parents let him build in the backyard. We gave him the skater name Matt Pealey. That slight tweak did the trick. RIP, Pealey, skate or die.

The September “Music Issue” is here, y’all. @texashighways.bsky.social

Two new songs from Spoon. Is that a sign of a great day ahead? I’ll report back. music.apple.com/us/album/cha...

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: On August 24, 1975, Dallas' short-lived Cosmic Cowboy station, KAFM (92.5), broadcast Waylon Jennings' show live from the late Electric Ballroom on Industrial. Still a perfect sound from the perfect setlist. tinyurl.com/5784exzv Setlist: tinyurl.com/4et9xrm2

Texas politics has never been short on controversy—and the state’s first woman governor, inaugurated a century ago, brought plenty of her own. I unpacked her bizarre story for the July/August issue of @texashighways.bsky.social texashighways.com/culture/hist...

Just now getting around to reading this beautiful story about the end of life, by @milehighrobert.bsky.social. www.5280.com/the-charming...

Her great-grandma Jeanne worked in couture at Neiman Marcus in the '50s & ’60s & taught her that what we wear can be a form of art & self-expression. Shannon Perri visits the Dallas flagship as it teeters on the brink of extinction—for @texashighways.bsky.social. texashighways.com/culture/look...

This oldie but a goodie by @randradefranco.bsky.social popped up on the @texashighways.bsky.social Popular Stories list today. The Good, the Bad, & the Exótico! texashighways.com/culture/how-...

"We were actively doing the wrong thing when it came to our queer neighbors and siblings and the HIV crisis, so it kind of became this moment for us to do some confessional work, some inclusion work, and some education work."

don't miss our launch event thursday if you're in dfw! www.dallasobserver.com/music/women-...

stanford acquires the al aronowitz archive, 1st velvet underground manager, introduced the beatles to bob dylan, & much else. some unseen VU footage in the collection, seems. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

The Statesman is back, baby. Just spent a full hour reading the Sunday paper, which included engrossing stories by Lily Kepner, Kerry Heath, Sarah Smith and others. (Since you asked, several by me, too.)