Has anybody checked in on the guys who showed up to MAGA rallies in PEDOPHILE HUNTER T-shirts?

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Honestly probably watching the Thunder win their seventh NBA title

Great to see the Thunder improve to 9-1 but you have to wonder if they’d be undefeated right now if the franchise were located in beautiful, sunny Tulsa

I interviewed the big guy

2 Sheridan 2 Church

She made the Uncut Gems furby—that’s all I need to know

A million reasons why homeless sweeps are ineffective but one of the nuggets we got from talking to service providers is that they often dispose of IDs and cash that are lifelines for people trying to transition out of homelessness

The prop master for 'Severance' is coming to Tulsa. We talked to Cat Miller about her career, her favorite Lumon props, and not being weird for weird's sake. Read it here: thepickup.com/attention-lu...

Just invented a perfect meal I call Dad’s Halloween Dinner: half a bag of Utz-brand potato chips, two Reese’s peanut butter cups and a Miller High Life tallboy

Every oil state disposes of toxic wastewater underground. But in Oklahoma, it hasn't been staying there, creating large, ongoing pollution events known as "purges." An investigation a year in the making for @readfrontier.bsky.social and @propublica.org www.readfrontier.org/stories/toxi...

Who showed Dub Uncut Gems in the offseason

I read Gooning Towards Bethlehem — probably would’ve made some cuts for length myself but overall an astounding piece of reportage

Please do not talk to me unless it’s about Ajay Mitchell’s place in the Hall of Fame

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

Me ever since I saw OBAA

Eternally funny to me that U2 has one guy named The Edge and another guy named Larry

Proud to publish this piece

"Cities are messy; art like this, with its ephemerality and specificity, responds to and honors that messiness. Even when art seems ancillary to public life, this type of work feeds the irrational yet necessary impulse to seek ongoing improvement in public spaces." thepickup.com/more-art-for...

The Oklahoma City Thunder are going to win 89 games this season

Insightful stuff from Gene here. I pay a lot of attention to what Rebuild Local News is doing to keep communities from regressing back to primordial states of being

Me in @thepickupdotcom.bsky.social: Supporting local news and information isn't a partisan issue—it's a community issue. What we do next will determine whether we're still a community that knows itself, or a collection of strangers who happen to live in the same place. thepickup.com/tulsa-doesnt...

When we were spitballing “wildest dreams” ideas for The Pickup one of them was “give Big Fish a column.” Never give up on your dreams kids

10/10 Piso’s post

It’s really weird that there are two TV shows with competing perspectives on Tulsa airing right now! thepickup.com/its-with-a-h...

That Joe Brainard painting from the first episode of 'The Lowdown'? Philbrook is now displaying it. thepickup.com/that-joe-bra...

Located between Chimera Café and Tulsa Violin Shop, Bygone Magazines is a new store specializing in vintage magazines and local literature. It's not trying to go viral. And that's a good thing. thepickup.com/bygone-magaz...

New era of Matt posting means a new handle

Thinking about causing myself severe psychic damage by watching the news seasons of The Lowdown and Tulsa King concurrently

Alicia went in

Meet one of my absolute favorite local guys thepickup.com/josh-fadem-i...

Still ☝️ in the National Basketball Association baby

Scoop for you thepickup.com/top-editor-a...

Please god let me host the Gundy-Walters podcast

Here's everything you could possibly want to do in Tulsa this fall:

In "The Lowdown," Ethan Hawke's Lee Raybon is modeled after self-taught Tulsa journalist Lee Roy Chapman, who rocked the city to its core with his publication of "The Nightmare of Dreamland." Read it here: thepickup.com/the-nightmar...

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