Best story I’ve read this year….

We have great neighbors.

Dak Prescott became the Dallas Cowboys all-time passing leader on on Sunday. Forever underappreciated. www.bloggingtheboys.com/dallas-cowbo...

My mom did it: the New York Times cranberry curd tart!

My most recent painting of Barton Springs ATX!!

I'm going to ignore the context and just choose to celebrate the fact that our editor-in-chief saying "we are following in the footsteps of the Butthole Surfers" made it into this PW profile

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories (and podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries) of 2025. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/21/y... #booksky #longreads #podcasts #documentaries

The most dominant sports program in Texas might just be the Southlake Carroll x-country team. Over the last 25 years, the boys & girls have won 18 state titles. Here, alum @iandille.bsky.social revisits his glory days—for @texashighways.bsky.social. #longreads texashighways.com/culture/runn...

I was in the 4th row at last night’s queens of the Stone Age ACL taping and I’m very glad that when lead singer Josh homme flipped his cleaver in the air , while interacting w the crowd, he caught it cleanly on the down flip and it didn’t nick someone—though that would have been entertaining.

As a runner in Austin, it's depressing when you get through May, June, July, August, September, and October, thinking you've successfully navigated the murky swamp of humidity, and then you get a blast of November heat and it erases all your joy.

Barton Springs like you've never seen it before, by @bobby-aleman.bsky.social for @texashighways.bsky.social. This hike is calling you, hiker people of Austin. texashighways.com/outdoors/tra...

It's so easy to be nice, and it gets you further.

Started a Substack just to keep writing about things that aren't sports. open.substack.com/pub/robertoj...

"The realization that this was the fastest I’d ever run was almost lost as I noticed the brown streaks running down my legs. The bottom of my shorts sagged. I was so proud, and also super embarrassed. I headed straight to the bathroom." @texashighways.bsky.social texashighways.com/culture/runn...

"We tried to pin down what it was about Fire in the Mountains that still had us sobbing intermittently a week out. Von Till nailed it: 'It made me dare to hope.'” @btoastie.bsky.social @highcountrynews.org www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

After three episodes of “Pluribus,” I’m wondering if I’ve been suckered by the hype.

New Saturday ritual. Tacos al pastor at Paprika. Line was 20 people deep before the place even opened at 11.

Best new dining experience in Austin: Rocco’s, a cozy Italian joint on Airport with The Rolling Stones coming through the speakers. I’m not gonna wreck the immaculate vibe by posting a photo. Because I didn’t take any. Because that’s how into it I was.

I love editing. Let the writer do all the hard work and then just add some flourishes. Lol.

En español espndeportes.espn.com/luchalibre/n...

New OPEN ROAD essay : Texas Highways "Running isn’t a contact sport, though I’d argue the pain inflicted during endurance sports hurts more intensely than a hit you might take on the football field. In essence, you’re suffocating yourself." @iandille.bsky.social texashighways.com/culture/runn...

"What began as a childhood wonder with masked men who looked like they could fly around the ring, evolved into a focus on Eddie. During a time when I lived in what felt like different worlds, he reminded me of home." @randradefranco.bsky.social for @espn.com: www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/...

Tomorrow will be 20 years since Eddie Guerrero died. I wrote about Eddie, existing in memories and between spaces, and about searching for things that aren't there. www.espn.com/wrestling/st...

Best tacos in Austin? Visit Paprika on North Lamar and tell me otherwise.

Follow a hypothetical raindrop from South Austin to Barton Springs on a 12-mile inner city eco-hike. We stop by Whirlpool cave, an old ranch, & the prettiest spot in the greenbelt, on our way to the crown jewel of Austin, Texas— #nature #photography #hiking texashighways.com/outdoors/tra...

Please join us in Austin this Saturday for the Night of Photojournalism, where Adriana Loureiro, John Moore @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @ilanapl.bsky.social & others will be presenting their work. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/night-of-p...

"acebuche" by ire'ne lara silva "for months i slept only 45 minutes at a time for months i barely wanted to eat for months i dreamt of all my teeth falling out and a screaming baby in the freezer" waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...

“People of our generation will be the 89-year-old bluesmen at that time...." says Zach Ernst www.austinchronicle.com/music/antone...

Where the Raindrop Ends A Barton Springs devotee traces its water source on a 12-mile inner-city hike @bobby-aleman.bsky.social for @texashighways.bsky.social texashighways.com/outdoors/tra...

Incredible cover by @highcountrynews.org and story by @btoastie.bsky.social. 🤘🏻

“Heavy music teaches us things such as we’re not alone; when life is dark, we do something about it. We’re not just a prisoner to that darkness. But also that our risk fluctuates, that our misery isn’t gonna last forever. There are ways through it.” www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

The new Bruce Lee stamps are bad-ass.

There must have been 100 cars lined up this morning for a food pantry at a church in our neighborhood.

Wow, this month marks seven years of Open Road essays at @texashighways.bsky.social. I'm grateful to the Queen of Austin lit, Sarah Bird, for starting it off. texashighways.com/culture/at-p...

Aca andamos. Got a chapter in this book that comes out December 9. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

He died 9 years ago today. Last night I heard this same song on the finale of “The Lowdown,” and two nights ago I saw Cameron Winter and Geese. Eternal blessings to the one and only Leonard cohen.

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“If you could shrink down to the size of a raindrop and flow into one of these caves, you’d travel for miles underground and end up at Barton Springs!” @bobby-aleman.bsky.social for Texas Highways texashighways.com/outdoors/tra...

Pretty neat to read about how the pool is fed.

Barton Springs is the 💙 of Austin. This spring-fed pool is where Robert Redford learned to swim & where all walks of life congregate. Here's the greatest story about Barton Springs never before told, by @bobby-aleman.bsky.social for Texas Highways. #longreads texashighways.com/outdoors/tra...

Neil Young was playing today’s music 50 years ago.

Sherrie Wolf. Plums. 2019

The Blues

There's a lot of great BBQ in Austin, but for Franklin Barbecue to not have a Michelin star is criminal.

Matt Berninger, the singer-songwriter and frontman of The National, had an idea, maybe even a good one. At the time, such an idea was hard to come by. Worth writing down, but nowhere to put it. No notebook. Dead phone battery. He then found a baseball and pushed a pen onto the rawhide.

That wasn’t really the season finale of “Chad Powers,” was it?

Issue drop, November, Texas Highways. Christopher Collins on East Texas Forests @lauramallonee.bsky.social on Parks Volunteers @bobby-aleman.bsky.social on Barton Springs