Libby Weber
@libbyweber.bsky.social
Quixotic writer & singer, enthusiastic nerd, and pathological overuser of adjectives. Likes dogs & puns. Wrote a huge book of sonnets. She/Her. https://libbyweber.com/
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Libby Weber
@libbyweber.bsky.social
· Dec 8
The 15 best songs of 2025, chosen by San Diego musicians
San Diego artists reflect on the 2025 songs that moved, inspired and stayed with them.
www.kpbs.org
OH MY GIDDY GOSH Andrew Bearden’s Missa Sacra Profana, whose “profana” text I wrote, made @kpbssandiego.bsky.social ‘s best-of music list for 2025!!
*runs around flailing and screaming*
Thank you so much for nominating us, Katina!!
www.kpbs.org/news/arts-cu...
*runs around flailing and screaming*
Thank you so much for nominating us, Katina!!
www.kpbs.org/news/arts-cu...
Reposted by Libby Weber
One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
The new NYT poll finds Trump 17 points underwater on immigration, and the nonwhite and young voters who went to Trump in 2024 have snapped back to Dems
It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
My friend wrote this awesome piece on Wake Up, Dead Man!
martycenter.org/sightings/wa...
martycenter.org/sightings/wa...
Wake Up Dead Man and the New Seductions of the Cloth
Wake Up Dead Man reimagines clerical corruption, shifting the threat from lust or greed to rage, grievance, and culture-war ideology for modern times.
martycenter.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:55 PM
My friend wrote this awesome piece on Wake Up, Dead Man!
martycenter.org/sightings/wa...
martycenter.org/sightings/wa...
Reposted by Libby Weber
One of the things that gets me about them people who are like “they are ending the constitution to distract from the Epstein files, don’t fall for it” is that nobody in power cares about little girls.
January 14, 2026 at 5:39 PM
One of the things that gets me about them people who are like “they are ending the constitution to distract from the Epstein files, don’t fall for it” is that nobody in power cares about little girls.
There's something to be said for someone who died as he lived: in denial of science and with unswerving devotion to con men who were happy to feed the self-serving fantasy of being a lone voice of reason in a mad world upon which he built his notoriety.
Nothing positive, but definitely something.
Nothing positive, but definitely something.
January 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
There's something to be said for someone who died as he lived: in denial of science and with unswerving devotion to con men who were happy to feed the self-serving fantasy of being a lone voice of reason in a mad world upon which he built his notoriety.
Nothing positive, but definitely something.
Nothing positive, but definitely something.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Sign of the season #2,579:
I saw the word hoodie and my brain read "hodie."
I saw the word hoodie and my brain read "hodie."
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Sign of the season #2,579:
I saw the word hoodie and my brain read "hodie."
I saw the word hoodie and my brain read "hodie."
Reposted by Libby Weber
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT
San Diego friends! Don't miss tonight's SACRA/PROFANA concert, a holiday-themed smorgasbord of sonic sumptuousness!
Bonus: Me singing!
Bonus bonus: I get to introduce Andrew Bearden's "Making the Darkness Bright," for which I wrote the lyrics!
Tickets/info: www.sacraprofana.org/event-detail...
Bonus: Me singing!
Bonus bonus: I get to introduce Andrew Bearden's "Making the Darkness Bright," for which I wrote the lyrics!
Tickets/info: www.sacraprofana.org/event-detail...
December 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
San Diego friends! Don't miss tonight's SACRA/PROFANA concert, a holiday-themed smorgasbord of sonic sumptuousness!
Bonus: Me singing!
Bonus bonus: I get to introduce Andrew Bearden's "Making the Darkness Bright," for which I wrote the lyrics!
Tickets/info: www.sacraprofana.org/event-detail...
Bonus: Me singing!
Bonus bonus: I get to introduce Andrew Bearden's "Making the Darkness Bright," for which I wrote the lyrics!
Tickets/info: www.sacraprofana.org/event-detail...
In the very serious world of church musicianship, we observed Advent 2 and by singing Gibbons's "This is the Record of John" and by hanging a printout of the appointed meme on the back of our music director's stand.
December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In the very serious world of church musicianship, we observed Advent 2 and by singing Gibbons's "This is the Record of John" and by hanging a printout of the appointed meme on the back of our music director's stand.
So yesterday's sequence hymn was People Look East, & after the gospel, our director of music accompanied the priest's walk to the pulpit with a sweet improvisation on that tune with extraverted flute stops that reminded me a little of the Pastoral Symphony in Messiah.
So I dubbed it Pifa Look East.
So I dubbed it Pifa Look East.
a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie and hat .
ALT: a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie and hat .
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
So yesterday's sequence hymn was People Look East, & after the gospel, our director of music accompanied the priest's walk to the pulpit with a sweet improvisation on that tune with extraverted flute stops that reminded me a little of the Pastoral Symphony in Messiah.
So I dubbed it Pifa Look East.
So I dubbed it Pifa Look East.
OH MY GIDDY GOSH Andrew Bearden’s Missa Sacra Profana, whose “profana” text I wrote, made @kpbssandiego.bsky.social ‘s best-of music list for 2025!!
*runs around flailing and screaming*
Thank you so much for nominating us, Katina!!
www.kpbs.org/news/arts-cu...
*runs around flailing and screaming*
Thank you so much for nominating us, Katina!!
www.kpbs.org/news/arts-cu...
The 15 best songs of 2025, chosen by San Diego musicians
San Diego artists reflect on the 2025 songs that moved, inspired and stayed with them.
www.kpbs.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
OH MY GIDDY GOSH Andrew Bearden’s Missa Sacra Profana, whose “profana” text I wrote, made @kpbssandiego.bsky.social ‘s best-of music list for 2025!!
*runs around flailing and screaming*
Thank you so much for nominating us, Katina!!
www.kpbs.org/news/arts-cu...
*runs around flailing and screaming*
Thank you so much for nominating us, Katina!!
www.kpbs.org/news/arts-cu...
One of my family's holiday traditions is putting out a quartet of vintage ceramic angels who hold letters that spell out NOEL. The other half of this tradition is that someone rearranges them to spell LEON.
My cousins & I discovered a few years ago that all of our families did this.
My cousins & I discovered a few years ago that all of our families did this.
December 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
One of my family's holiday traditions is putting out a quartet of vintage ceramic angels who hold letters that spell out NOEL. The other half of this tradition is that someone rearranges them to spell LEON.
My cousins & I discovered a few years ago that all of our families did this.
My cousins & I discovered a few years ago that all of our families did this.
“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
One last Advent music story! (For now!)
During the pandemic, our conductor hosted a hymn sing (he played, we sang aong muted in Zoom), including that Advent banger Helmsley, aka "Lo! He comes with clouds descending."
The 2nd verse is my fave for the emo repeition of the lines "Deeply wailing."
During the pandemic, our conductor hosted a hymn sing (he played, we sang aong muted in Zoom), including that Advent banger Helmsley, aka "Lo! He comes with clouds descending."
The 2nd verse is my fave for the emo repeition of the lines "Deeply wailing."
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
One last Advent music story! (For now!)
During the pandemic, our conductor hosted a hymn sing (he played, we sang aong muted in Zoom), including that Advent banger Helmsley, aka "Lo! He comes with clouds descending."
The 2nd verse is my fave for the emo repeition of the lines "Deeply wailing."
During the pandemic, our conductor hosted a hymn sing (he played, we sang aong muted in Zoom), including that Advent banger Helmsley, aka "Lo! He comes with clouds descending."
The 2nd verse is my fave for the emo repeition of the lines "Deeply wailing."
I posted about the super-cool, mystical Advent Procession service I sang a few years ago where marine layer billowed into the narthex as we sang, "...and lo, I see the power of God coming, and a cloud covering the whole earth."
My friend replied that he's wearing a sweater this yer.
My friend replied that he's wearing a sweater this yer.
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I posted about the super-cool, mystical Advent Procession service I sang a few years ago where marine layer billowed into the narthex as we sang, "...and lo, I see the power of God coming, and a cloud covering the whole earth."
My friend replied that he's wearing a sweater this yer.
My friend replied that he's wearing a sweater this yer.
[rehearsing Tallis’s Audivi vocem de caelo]
Director: Who knows what “clamor factus est” means?
Tenor: There’s a loud noise.
Director: Yes! And when?
Alto: Media nocte!
Me: [sings to Billy Joel’s tune] In the middle of the niiight!
(maybe for next year’s Advent Procession?)
Director: Who knows what “clamor factus est” means?
Tenor: There’s a loud noise.
Director: Yes! And when?
Alto: Media nocte!
Me: [sings to Billy Joel’s tune] In the middle of the niiight!
(maybe for next year’s Advent Procession?)
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
[rehearsing Tallis’s Audivi vocem de caelo]
Director: Who knows what “clamor factus est” means?
Tenor: There’s a loud noise.
Director: Yes! And when?
Alto: Media nocte!
Me: [sings to Billy Joel’s tune] In the middle of the niiight!
(maybe for next year’s Advent Procession?)
Director: Who knows what “clamor factus est” means?
Tenor: There’s a loud noise.
Director: Yes! And when?
Alto: Media nocte!
Me: [sings to Billy Joel’s tune] In the middle of the niiight!
(maybe for next year’s Advent Procession?)
OH MY GOD I offered to rip an out-of-print CD to MP3 for a friend only to realize that my new-ish desktop computer doesn't have a CD/DVD drive.
BUT! Past!Libby apparently realized this, because she ordered an external drive at the same time, which sat untouched...
UNTIL TONIGHT!
BUT! Past!Libby apparently realized this, because she ordered an external drive at the same time, which sat untouched...
UNTIL TONIGHT!
a woman is sitting at a table with a laptop and making a funny face ..
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with a laptop and making a funny face ..
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
OH MY GOD I offered to rip an out-of-print CD to MP3 for a friend only to realize that my new-ish desktop computer doesn't have a CD/DVD drive.
BUT! Past!Libby apparently realized this, because she ordered an external drive at the same time, which sat untouched...
UNTIL TONIGHT!
BUT! Past!Libby apparently realized this, because she ordered an external drive at the same time, which sat untouched...
UNTIL TONIGHT!
Your're sipping a G&T while your partner has a fever and is shivering?
Problematic ague gap.
Problematic ague gap.
Your partner has standard ear piercings and you have giant plugs in your stretched lobes?
Problematic gauge gap.
Problematic gauge gap.
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Your're sipping a G&T while your partner has a fever and is shivering?
Problematic ague gap.
Problematic ague gap.
Director: Okay, let’s pull out the Gibbons.
Baritone: We shouldn’t monkey around.
Tenor: It might get a bit hairy.
Me: Yeah, but it swings!
#professionalism
Baritone: We shouldn’t monkey around.
Tenor: It might get a bit hairy.
Me: Yeah, but it swings!
#professionalism
a person is holding a stuffed animal in their hands
ALT: a person is holding a stuffed animal in their hands
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Director: Okay, let’s pull out the Gibbons.
Baritone: We shouldn’t monkey around.
Tenor: It might get a bit hairy.
Me: Yeah, but it swings!
#professionalism
Baritone: We shouldn’t monkey around.
Tenor: It might get a bit hairy.
Me: Yeah, but it swings!
#professionalism
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Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this.
To ICE: "You can repent"
To ICE: "You can repent"
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this.
To ICE: "You can repent"
To ICE: "You can repent"
Meanwhile in the temporary kitchen zone, I messed up my frozen breakfast. Thankfully, it seems to be the forgiving sort.
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Meanwhile in the temporary kitchen zone, I messed up my frozen breakfast. Thankfully, it seems to be the forgiving sort.
THAR SHE BLOWS! THE WHITE WHALE* APPARENTLY BE STREAMING ON DEMAND ON ACORN TV VIA SPECTRUM CABLE.
-Ahab** in 2025
*The brilliant show Slings & Arrows, set at a fictional Shakespeare festival, which I have been trying to find on DVD for under $300 for nearly two decades just to rewatch
**Me
-Ahab** in 2025
*The brilliant show Slings & Arrows, set at a fictional Shakespeare festival, which I have been trying to find on DVD for under $300 for nearly two decades just to rewatch
**Me
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
THAR SHE BLOWS! THE WHITE WHALE* APPARENTLY BE STREAMING ON DEMAND ON ACORN TV VIA SPECTRUM CABLE.
-Ahab** in 2025
*The brilliant show Slings & Arrows, set at a fictional Shakespeare festival, which I have been trying to find on DVD for under $300 for nearly two decades just to rewatch
**Me
-Ahab** in 2025
*The brilliant show Slings & Arrows, set at a fictional Shakespeare festival, which I have been trying to find on DVD for under $300 for nearly two decades just to rewatch
**Me
All Souls' Day gets me up in my feels and I am HERE for it.
You know you hit the right vibe in a Requiem Mass if you finish a movement and promptly tear up.
You know you hit the right vibe in a Requiem Mass if you finish a movement and promptly tear up.
a blue cartoon character is crying with tears falling out of his eyes
ALT: a blue cartoon character is crying with tears falling out of his eyes
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
All Souls' Day gets me up in my feels and I am HERE for it.
You know you hit the right vibe in a Requiem Mass if you finish a movement and promptly tear up.
You know you hit the right vibe in a Requiem Mass if you finish a movement and promptly tear up.
Director (a Dodger's fan): A lot of bad stuff happened in WWI and you can really hear that in Howells' music. Gone is the "we rule everything!" bombast of Stanford and Parry.
Alto (from Toronto): LIKE DODGER'S FANS AFTER THE 70S!
Alto (from Toronto): LIKE DODGER'S FANS AFTER THE 70S!
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Director (a Dodger's fan): A lot of bad stuff happened in WWI and you can really hear that in Howells' music. Gone is the "we rule everything!" bombast of Stanford and Parry.
Alto (from Toronto): LIKE DODGER'S FANS AFTER THE 70S!
Alto (from Toronto): LIKE DODGER'S FANS AFTER THE 70S!