Honestly, it's not the prettiest tree posted on OnePo this week. But our block has a real humdinger of its own.

This second photo does a good job of capturing how much this tree dominates the frame in person as well.

My Favorite Team led at halftime, but cratered late. 

When the Seattle Mariners reached the American League Championship Series in 2025, what AL Central team then had the longest current ALCS appearance drought?

Giuseppe Zangara, Samuel Byck, and Francisco Duran are A) attempted presidential assassins, B) champion F1 drivers, or C) Nobel-winning physicists?

What software company, publisher of Call of Duty and Guitar Hero, was purchased by Microsoft in 2023?

Of the 11 elements whose symbols do not feature letters from their common English names, which one has the lowest atomic number?

Moving might have been a mistake.

What late comedian and actor from Homicide: Life on the Street and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit was a cousin of Henry Winkler?

What party game involves selecting from a 5x5 grid and trying to avoid the assassin, which ends the game instantly?

What U.S. state name comes from an Algonquian word that may mean 'it lies red', a reference to the reddish sandstone banks of its central river?

In what decade was the most recent year in which a Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded?

What is the common name for the elements on the far right of the periodic table, including helium, neon, and argon?

What three-time Oscar winner for Best Actor recently came out of retirement for Anemone ?

Of what West Asian nation is King Abdullah II the current monarch?

What is the stage name of Dana Elaine Owens, the first hip hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ?

I am businessman Donald Trump
I smell like i just took a dump
I am now your president

NATO power will soon go away
I will be Putin one day
I will command all of you
We'll host Andrew Tate in school 
We'll host Andrew Tate in school

Mar-a-Lago über alles
Mar-a-Lago über alles
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago

Podcasters will control you
One-hundred percent supplements
You will buy all of their crap
And always wear the MAGA cap

Captured media won't report
On those suckers we deport
And they won't come back, we say
Immigrants, oh you will pay
Immigrants, oh you will pay

Mar-a-Lago über alles
Mar-a-Lago über alles
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago

Now it is 2025
Masked goons rent vans to drive
It's the neck gaiter secret police
They have come to ruin the peace

Come quietly to the car
You'll look nice behind our bars
Don't resist our display of power
This should only take an hour

Bam! Throwing tear gas at the mob
We're just here to do our job
We'll deport you little chumps
When you mess with President Trump
When you mess with President Trump

Mar-a-Lago über alles
Mar-a-Lago über alles
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago
Über alles, Mar-a-Lago

What NHL star scored "5 goals 5 ways" for the Penguins in 1988? (even-strength, power-play, short-handed, penalty-shot, open-net)

What scientific constant is celebrated at 6:02 on October 23rd?

What German philosopher and economist was a correspondent for the New-York Daily Tribune from 1852 to 1862?

What author is credited with the first modern detective story, in which C. Auguste Dupin solves a double homicide?

You know - like Inktober, but with goblins!

(More as I do them, but I wanted to share the list since the clock has ticked over to the first.)

We drove to Portland last week to say goodbye this weekend to a longtime friend from the days of Usenet, who also happened to be the boss who held my job while I recovered from GBS. He's had ALS for about fifteen months now and he can barely move. Watching his wife tend to his respiratory needs (he is no longer able to clear fluid from his lungs) was heartbreaking and also brought back memories when Kim had to do something very similar while I was paralyzed.  But we were both glad to be there, tell him we loved him, and also to give his wife as much support as we could.

They didn't show us Lake Assal on the map, unfortunately, but we did win.  I got the first one below from the lyrics to "Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.

What opera about a clown is featured in a double-bill with Cavalleria rusticana ?

Hal Newhouser quit his scouting job in protest when the Houston Astros did not select what shortstop from Kalamazoo with their first overall pick?

In what Horn of Africa country is Lake Assal, from which 4 million tons of salt is extracted annually?

What car rental company has the slogan "We try harder" ?