Results tagged “mattressmack”

Our bloggers were fairly single-minded this week. We saw a lot of posts on the same couple of topics, but each one had its own distinctive style. Let's take a look at what's hot in the Houston blogosphere this week: Playoffs, anyone? The Rockets are getting ready, and the bloggers are fired up. Globetrotter is getting ready with their "I Urban Houstonian took a more classic approach, with an analysis of each team's chances,...

So what do you do if you're an ex-president with some extra time on your hands during the holidays? One idea: become a Salvation Army bell ringer like former President Bush and Barbara did yesterday. George and Bar were kettleside outside Gallery Furniture to help increase donations — two of the Salvation Army's four U.S. regions reported last week that giving is down as much as 11 percent compared with last year. "We know we're...

In a strange turn of events, the University of North Texas announced it will rename its new athletic practice facility after the football coach the school just fired. Why? Because Mattress Mack said to. The backstory is this: After nine years as head coach of the UNT Mean Green, Dickey was fired last week because officials weren't happy with the team's recent performance (2-9 last year and 3-7 so far in 2006); coincidentally, he learned...

So we had heard about Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale's hip-hop Gallery Furniture "commercial" from Jamie Kennedy's Blowin' Up, but we couldn't have guessed quite how odd it really is. As Ken Hoffman explains: It's really not a commercial — it doesn't even mention Gallery Furniture. It's actually a clip from Jamie Kennedy's new comedy reality show on MTV called Blowin' Up. Kennedy is pretending to pursue a career in hip-hop, and Mattress Mack somehow,...

First and most important, obviously, there's Snakes on a Plane. (check out that awesome logo).