AMEN! Like I said in a post further up, Mattress Mack lives and breathes Houston. He cares deeply for the community, and he’s still one of the things I miss about my hometown.

I know exactly what you mean. I mean, saying “Houston” is much easier than saying “unincorporated Harris County.” I never started saying “Cypress” or “Cy-Fair” until I went to school at UT and started meeting both other Houstonians (common reaction: “oh, you’re not from Houston...”) and people from elsewhere in the…

That’s Mattress Mack to you dear lunchcoma ;) As a kid that grew up in Houston, he is a city treasure.

It’s a huge area. I’ve lost count, but I think the Cy-Fair school district has something like 11 high schools (Go Cougs! by the way) now if that’s any indication. The fact that a big part (maybe half now?) of “Houston” isn’t actually Houston is one of the things that I think that non-Houston metro area folks don’t…

I know that knot in the stomach very, very well. I’ve lived in Austin since 2003 when I left for school, but I grew up in Cy-Fair near 1960 and Perry (the northwest, not-actually-Houston-proper-burbs for non Houstonians). I was in high school when Allison hit, and watching that water slowly creep up our driveway was…

I’m more convinced than ever that Drumpf’s whole dumpster fire of a campaign has been one long (thinly veiled) ad for the eventual Trump TV network.