how to have my texture appear on pause

You could use your _texture as a GUITexture, set it up in the inspector and enable/disable it in your script:

var _texture : GUITexture;
...
_texture.enabled = true; // or false

like for example this is what i came up with... And i appreciate the feedback.

var _texture : Texture; var paused : boolean = false;

function Start () { paused=false; }

function Update () { if(Input.GetButtonUp ("escape")) { if(!paused) { Time.timeScale = 0; paused = true;

} else { paused = false; Time.timeScale = 1;

 }

}

}

function OnGUI() { if(paused) {
GUI.skin = menuSkin; //GUI.color = Color.White; //GUI.color.a = 0.5; if(GUILayout.Button("Restart Level")) {
//OpenLevel("level01");
Time.timeScale = 1.0;
}
if(GUILayout.Button("Quit To Menu")) {
//OpenLevel("menu");
Time.timeScale = 1.0;
Application.LoadLevel(0); }
GUI.DrawTexture(Rect(0,100,500,500), _texture); var ScreenX = ((Screen.width 0.5) - (areaWidth 0.5));
var ScreenY = ((Screen.height 0.5) - (areaHeight 0.5));
GUILayout.BeginArea(Rect(ScreenX, ScreenY, areaWidth, areaHeight));
GUILayout.EndArea();
} }

function OpenLevel (level : String) { audio.PlayOneShot(click); yield WaitForSeconds (0.5); Application.LoadLevel (level); }