Ryan Assante 🌵

“Lonely, longin' troubadour, you ain't the boy you were before. This world has truly thickened your skin”

[Ryan Assante 🌵 @AssanteRyan]

Just entered this William Clark Green contest! Enter here: https://t.co/HTaHq2X56V

[Dallas Stars @DallasStars]

Championship roots. Modern victory.

Nothing Else Matters.

[Jack Settleman @jacksettleman]

Attention Red Raider nation, thanks to the generosity of @TTUpessimist, we are giving away TWO tickets to the game Saturday.

All YOU have to do to enter is retweet this tweet and we will pick a winner on Friday!

Wreck ‘em

[IcyVert @IcyVert]

EVERYONE ENTER THIS. WE GOT YALL.

[Galleywinter @galleywinter]

RIP Charlie Robison

We’ll see you around heaven, whenever we get out that way.

More to come.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Texas Quote of the Day:

"It's been a pretty good song. It was written in five minutes about a hot day in Austin, Texas with a margarita and a beautiful woman. I finished it in Key West. I had no idea."

----- Jimmy Buffett, who passed away yesterday, talks about how he wrote the most valuable song in history, "Margaritaville," one afternoon in 1976 after visiting a Mexican restaurant on Anderson Lane in Austin, Texas and then retreating to a friend's house in North­west Hills. Buffett was touring at the time. When he landed back in Key West, he polished off the lead single to his 1977 album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, an unexpected hit for the largely unknown singer that peaked at No. 8 on Billboard charts and notched the 14th most popular song of the year.

I love this story. Not only is there a Texas connection but also there's the idea that, like so many other songwriters before him, Jimmy was struck by creative lightning and, unknowingly, released the song just at the moment the zeitgeist was ready for it. Other than the brief moments of inspiration, it was largely luck, a matter of so many things aligning in the cosmos. But it grew to the point that Jimmy's Margaritaville Holdings was employing 5,000 people.

Shown here: Jimmy Buffett with Willie Nelson in 1975.

[Ryan Assante 🌵 @AssanteRyan]

@10BarrelBrewing

[Bob Sturm @SportsSturm]

Man, Minnesota fans will talk down to Texas hockey folks online. Hockey is so incredibly complicated so it is really helpful to have their hockey expertise to set everyone straight on these complexities.

[Ryan Assante 🌵 @AssanteRyan]

Summer - Drinking a Summer Shandy by @Leinenkugels @ Rockin' S Bar & Grill — https://t.co/RfhUon66Fy

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I just earned the 'Land of the Free (Level 80)' badge on @untappd! https://t.co/uapcudweMY

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I just earned the 'Wheel of Styles (Level 20)' badge on @untappd! https://t.co/uMZ4ZjfPy0

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I just earned the 'Hopped Down (Level 12)' badge on @untappd! https://t.co/JaAocyB8GQ

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I’m a big fan of blondes 😉 - Drinking a Texas Blonde by @wildacrebrewing @ Untappd at Home — https://t.co/Q5aYvyUFYs

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I just earned the 'For the Can (Level 21)' badge on @untappd! https://t.co/wmXoh4Q9F7

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If I’m goin down, I’m goin down in flames. - Drinking a Zombie Slaycation by @beerzombies1 @ Untappd at Home — https://t.co/O313nXz4ib

[Ryan Assante 🌵 @AssanteRyan]

A hazy little thing. - Drinking a Hazers Gonna Haze by @belchingbeaver @ Guitars & Growlers - Flower Mound — https://t.co/1e58J8OoTR

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