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Let’s Talk About Guns In Today’s Open Thread 

Every Friday, we turn The Pickup over to the readers.

March 28, 2025

Adieu To My Terrible Lawn, And Its Care 

An ode to the backyard from hell.

March 25, 2025

Open Thread: I, Too, Was Fooled—Fooled!—By The False Spring 

Every Friday, we turn The Pickup over to the readers.

March 21, 2025

Admittedly, It’s A Rough Time To Get Obsessed With An Egg Dish 

Reader, I can’t stop eating the Two-Egg Soft Scramble at Maple Ridge Grocer

Open Thread: I’m Begging Someone To Talk To Me About Severance 

Every Friday, we turn The Pickup over to the readers.

March 14, 2025

My Brush With Immortality Involved A Small Mouse And A Lot of Borax

Boxing squirrels, piles of guts and more about taxidermy than you ever stopped to consider

March 12, 2025

I’m Watching Tulsan Britney Haynes Stage a Real-Time Takeover on “The Traitors”

There’s a new traitor in the turret, and I’m glued to the screen.

March 5, 2025