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opusmag

jspong

Malick’s lands.

Bob Hall Pier (6:50 a.m.) #texas #southtexas #beach #beaches #igtexas #instagramtexas #bobhallpier

utaustin

Chevrolet announces the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado UT Special Edition Thursday Chevrolet announced a special-edition University of Texas Longhorns Silverado. The UT edition goes on sale nationwide in October. The Longhorns Silverado will feature special exterior paint, UT graphics on the pickup bed and tailgate, and chrome side steps.

"This is an exciting way for Longhorns everywhere to show their Texas pride as they cruise America’s highways and byways, and I’m glad to see that Bevo XIV will continue to ride in style," said Steve Patterson, director of Men’s Athletics at The University of Texas. "We appreciate our great partnership with Chevrolet and their support of Texas Athletics."

Chevrolet, The University of Texas Athletics program, IMG College and the Texas Exes UT student alumni association last year announced a multi-year sponsorship agreement, designating Silverado as the Official Truck of the Texas Longhorns and of the Texas Exes. Silverado is also the Official Truck of Bevo, the Texas Longhorns’ mascot.

jimmyjamesinc

One day a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. And being a fool, he was simple minded, he didn’t see a king. He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king, “What ails you friend?” The king replied, “I’m thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat”. So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. He looked in his hands and there was the holy grail, that which he sought all of his life. And he turned to the fool and said with amazement, “How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?”

And the fool replied, "I don’t know. I only knew that you were thirsty."

My friends are at Balmorhea today. Need to get back out there.

#balmorhea #west texas #texas #water #springs #summer

roomonfire-good-design-deactiva

Artist James Turrell’s ‘Skyspace’ in Houston, Texas.

jspong

H-town skyspace.

texasmonthly-blog

Our August issue hits newsstands today! Check this glorious shot of entrepreneur Liz Lambert’s favorite place in Texas, the stone tank on her family’s ranch in West Texas. Show us your favorite place by tagging #myfavetexas and we’ll repost some of our favorites. Photo by Jeff Wilson. (at Texas Monthly Magazine)

jspong

It’s Liz Lambert’s world; the rest of us are just hoping for an invite to her next pool party.

brightwalldarkroom

Movies, if they’re very good, aren’t a conversation; they’re an exaltation, a shuddering of one’s being, something deeply personal yet awesomely vast. That’s what criticism exists to capture. And it’s exactly what’s hard to talk about, what’s embarrassingly rhapsodic, what runs the risk of seeming odd, pretentious, or gaseous at a time of exacting intellectual discourse.

Richard Brody (via brightwalldarkroom)

parabola-magazine

These are my bees, says the Lord I will make them to rise up Out of the darkness, and into the morning sun They will, unerringly, Find every flower and the goodness I have put in it, The tastes and colors of the soul, Gather that sweetness, And bring it home.

–Lee van Laer, Parabola's Poetry Editor

believermag

GEORGE SAUNDERS: But on the other hand, what is an artist supposed to do? Resist his own time? I’ve sometimes felt, because of my background, a little under-informed about and under-engaged with contemporary political and intellectual issues. When I was young I didn’t live anywhere that...