Libby Weber

a blue puppet with a beard and hat is looking out of a window . ALT: a blue puppet with a beard and hat is looking out of a window .

Actual footage of me tonight before turning off all the lights because we're mid-renovation and I can't even find the danged candy.

DING DING DING DING DING!! 20 points to your house!

OKAY KIDS it is time for this year's pun costume!

WHAT AM I??

Visual clues:
1. My adorable punem
2. The full costume
3. Details, including a barrel, mallet, staves, hoops, and laser measure to make my tool belt look more tool-belt-y
4. BONUS: my very first pun costume from 2008 (Alice in Chains)

a man in pajamas is dancing in a room in front of a closet . ALT: a man in pajamas is dancing in a room in front of a closet .

PS I am still actually putting all the bits together so I might not have a picture to post until much later today.

a cartoon of a woman standing next to a cake with candles on it . ALT: a cartoon of a woman standing next to a cake with candles on it .

Some bits of my Hallowe'en costume didn't arrive in time (boo), so I made do with a belt & cord I bought for my 2022 costume, craft paper last used for my 2015 costume (which I originally bought for my 2012 costume), & most impressively, the hosiery from my 2004 wedding.
Costume pack rats FTW!

King Ozymandios
Built works grandiose
"Ye mighty: despair!" Ozzy says/blurts;
His statues received their just deserts.

I want to gently push back on this: not being able to read complex writing is not the same as being a low information citizen. Many people can comprehend the topics involved just fine if they are presented in an accessible and understandable manner.

Artistic license and/or a different school of orthography

Georgie Porge, with noxious breath,
Gave the girls the kiss of death.
Their shades pursued the monstrous fiend,
He fled, but karma intervened.
The villain sought his life to save,
But fell into an open grave.
With pudd’n and pie we toast his doom
And dance upon his cursèd tomb.

The triumph of bullshit Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.

"The federal agencies that survived Elon Musk’s wrecking ball are now captured by the echo chamber of his social media platform, with cabinet secretaries staring furiously into a digital funhouse mirror to divine the will of the most internet-addled members of the MAGA base." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Bankruptcy Barrel - TV Tropes To show that a character is in such dire financial straits that they literally "lost their shirt", the otherwise-naked character will resort to wearing a large barrel◊ usually held up by suspenders. T...

I have obtained a backup barrel for my Hallowe'en pun costume in case the one I ordered doesn't arrive in time.

UNRELATED (OR IS IT??): TIL the Great Depression-era barrel worn with suspenders that was visual shorthand for poverty in cartoons is called a bankruptcy barrel.

On the stool Miss Muffet sat
Her cottage cheese forgotten,
Foreboding filled her with alarm
She knew some thing was rotten.

She did not see that just behind
Ungoliant descended.
She tried to run, she tried to hide
Too late—her life was ended.

OH HELLO I SEE YOU HAVE A CURLY QUOTE AT THE BEGINNING OF A LINE. I'LL JUST MAKE IT A CLOSE QUOTE, OKAY?
—Clippy, probably

Cursed Donald orthography (not THAT cursed).

Donate to Help Keep Jodie and John's Granddaughter Safe and Loved, organized by Alicia Verdier When Jodie and John found out their sweet infant granddaughter … Alicia Verdier needs your support for Help Keep Jodie and John's Granddaughter Safe and Loved

Apologies for the mood killer, but my friend Alicia, who saw first-hand this poor baby's condition, has set up this GoFundMe to support these grandparents' attempt to save her from further abuse. It's eight levels of heartbreaking, but you can help! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-jodie...

PS HMU if she needs an AO3 invite.

Excellent! I hope she enjoys being part of this long and delightful literary tradition.

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

YouTube video by MSNBC LIVE: Senator Merkley holds floor to 'protest Trump’s threats to Democracy'

WATCH LIVE: Senator Merkley hits hour 18 of marathon speech to 'protest Trump’s threats to Democracy'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1VL...

The only better Halloween song is werewolf bar mitzvah

(Spooky scary. Boys becoming men. Men becoming wolves.)

5 pm, Evensong (10.19.2025) YouTube video by St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral

It was a heart-full, cathartic weekend, with a perfect farewell for a family friend & also singing the best ~3 minutes of choral music ever written. Good reminders to love whole-heartedly & to put as much beauty into the world as you can in the time you have. www.youtube.com/live/NJeqMUe...

Texts to spouse:

GUESS WHAT WE ARE DOING FOR INTROIT AT EVENSONG THIS WEEK

HINT IT IS PURCELL

OTHER HINT IT IS MY FAVE

PS NO WE ARE NOT DOING ONCE TWICE THRICE I JULIA TRY'D FOR EVENSONG

Hmm. I thought it was next door's child that was given a drum set recently, but it's being played now, during school hours. Is this revenge for all the Purcell and Mozart?

Whoa oh oh oh! Howells' Chosen Tune! x 2

I can feel it deep within my bowels
When we're doing songs by Herbert Howells.
It's not so scary--
It's the organ voluntary,
So we're gonna get to hear The Chosen Tune!
#professionalism

I got a quardruple-dose of Howells between the morning service and Evensong, but my most/least proud moment was noticing that the opening voluntary was "The Chosen Tune," and immediately singing about it to Billy Joel's "The Longest Time."

Conductor: OK, get out the Walker Burial Sentences!

Me: [sings]
Look for the Bur’ial Sentences!
The Walker Bur’ial Sentences!
Forget about your worries & your strife!
I mean the Bur’ial Sentences
Containing some repentances
That make you feel OK you lost your life!
#professionalism

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

Chemists Crack the Ghostly Truth Behind Will-o’-the-Wisps Scientists had long suspected methane had something to do with it. Turns out they were partly right.

A cool science story in PNAS, and bonus points to Gizmodo for the URL reading, "sorry ghost hunters, will-o-the-wisps are just electrified swamp farts."

Man charged with starting Palisades fire that killed 12 people Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly started blaze that destroyed over 6,800 structures in California

GODDAMN IT, FLORIDA MAN STRIKES AGAIN.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland