I am enjoying Alien: Earth both for the gnarly kills and its real star — the creepy sheep who wins best evil onscreen farm animal since Black Phillip the Goat

If anybody out there ever wanted to pay me $1000 here is your opportunity to do it thepickup.com/products

Bought my first road bike 👍

I’ve been robbed again!!! thepickup.com/for-the-thir...

Good blog imo thepickup.com/i-went-to-se...

Since Ryan Walters' Woke Teacher Test won’t let you fail it, is the certificate of achievement just a participation trophy? thepickup.com/how-much-cou...

Gen Z’s preeminent indie-rock star, MJ Lenderman, put on a perfect night at Cain’s Ballroom: thepickup.com/i-love-mj-le...

Here’s me on one of my favorite guys

He got that dog in em

The real-world action here is Stitt told the Oklahoma Highway Patrol to move people off state land. OHP has an annual budget of like $9. Pure grandstanding.

I think it’s beautiful that the Thunder won a title in 2025 because the Clippers had to do fraud with Kawhi Leonard

oh no I let my brain have a moment of reflection and it came up with "that guy from that one Onion headline is what MJ Lenderman's 'She's Leaving You' is about"

Don’t know where my kids are right now and—frankly—not my problem!

Introducing "Ask Tulsa Bae," a new dating column for the romantically frustrated: thepickup.com/introducing-...

Editing JP on this was a delight, in case anybody was wondering

Incredible deal imo

“I simply think that buildings should reflect the character of a place, like how Santa Fe is all adobe and how Dallas looks designed by a sentient Ford-F150.”

So nice I read it twice

The audacity to claim they want to build the Burj Khalifa of the West in OKC to solve its housing crisis is spectacular.

In praise of $5.55 Sushi Wednesday at Reasor's: thepickup.com/cheap-eats-5...

TAF Fellows go national; Enid gets its own experimental art space; Ike's Chili gets money. Read it all here: thepickup.com/we-support-t...

lmao

Tulsa can and must build a slightly smaller tower with a big gun on the top to shoot the OKC one at a range of 120mi

“I hear you want to talk about America’s biggest penis in Bricktown.” @jpbrammer.bsky.social wrote about that huge tower they're (talking about) building in Oklahoma City. Read "What’s So Wrong With Oklahoma City Building A Tower To The Heavens?," paywall-free, here: thepickup.com/whats-so-wro...

Wow, I'm hearing that longform is back?? thepickup.com/whats-so-wro...

A year ago, I heard that Oklahoma City had approved a plan to build Legends Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the entire Western hemisphere. Why were we building the Tower of Babel in the Heartland? I decided to investigate. This essay is the result. (gift link) thepickup.com/whats-so-wro...

Tomorrow, we take a trip to OKC. Join us.

The Trump Administration is quietly cutting funding for Tribal colleges: thepickup.com/the-trump-ad...

Ethan Hawke plays a Tulsa guy… this is even better than the time Leo DiCaprio depicted the stupidest man to ever come from Oklahoma in Killers of the Flower Moon

Enjoyed editing this — Kelly Bostian is a delight

On Greenwood Ave, the Down Beat Ballroom hosted jazz legends like Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald in the 1940s. Then, it disappeared. A piece of Tulsa history, unearthed: thepickup.com/this-greenwo...

Subscribe to The Pickup baby we got your 80-year-old scoops right here!! thepickup.com/products

Mailman ripped a fat vape and waved hi to my kids this morning. AI can’t replace that

get a month-long subscription to The Pickup for $1.00 that's the cost of, like, a FOURTH of a cup of coffee that much coffee wouldn't even do anything to you you know it; I know it anyway click here thepickup.com/products

We ranked every flavor of Mood Brü by slurpability thepickup.com/its-still-su...

Highway 412, Live Rust and a beater Prius, who says no

Alien: Earth dares to ask … what if she was a sci-fi protagonist

Got my first Mood Brü last night in honor of this story — fancy soda will not replace my post-lawn need for an ice cold beer buts it’s nice in social situations

Help my boy Zack out

Who out there slurping Mood Brüs? thepickup.com/its-still-su...

The thrift store gods have blessed me once again

24 HOUR GIVEAWAY: For the next 24 hours, we're giving away a Brewery Tour and Tasting for 10 at Heirloom Rustic Ales! Enter to win by subscribing for $1 at thepickup.com/products before noon, August 9th.

Looking ahead to Blue Whale Comedy Festival, we talked with Evan Hughes about his decade in the local comedy scene:

Mitchhhhhhh

Recent career highlight: I’ve been volunteering with the Prison Journalism Project to support the incarcerated journalists at Eddie Warrior in Taft, Oklahoma. They are some of the funniest people I’ve ever worked with. Thanks to Ellen Stackable and co. for having me out.

I never want to live anywhere but Oklahoma

Favorite response to my Tulsa King story by a country mile. Guy who was let down by Tulsa King. He has to be one in 50 million.

Have I mentioned on here that you can subscribe to @thepickupdotcom.bsky.social this month only for $1? thepickup.com/were-on-sale

New series launched today! We're (anonymously) talking money in Tulsa — what you do with it, how much you need to live comfortably, worries, budgeting, goals and more: thepickup.com/money-journa...

Has anybody in Tulsa even watched Tulsa King? We watched all 19 episodes of it. It's even worse than you thought. thepickup.com/tulsa-king-i...