http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/ I is in alphabetical order. en-us 2008-04-07T11:54:37-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007462.html This is insufferable music nerdery, but I have to ask. Does this: Now I'm falling asleep And she's calling a cab While he's having a smoke And she's taking a drag Now they're going to bed And my stomach is... dianna 2008-04-07T11:54:37-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007458.html 9:30 Friday night, just settling down in bed to watch Good Night and Good Luck in my underwear... and it occurs to me that I think I left my foot heater on at work. You know, the foot heater I'm... dianna 2008-04-04T21:30:47-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007454.html The technology I am using is called 2nd Avenue Records, and I have only just learned how to use it. It took a tutorial. See, most music stores that I have shopped in have worked something like: music is out... dianna 2008-04-01T20:06:38-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007453.html For shame, The Oregonian. For shame. We have an article about a major step being taken by Oregon colleges willing to try out non-gender-strict dorm assignments, and all we can fucking talk about is how now straight couples get to... dianna 2008-04-01T10:09:19-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007450.html I have a tendency to keep score, in my head, of the fair-to-unfair balance of my personal universe at any given time. The scoresheet exists for one reason, and that is to help me justify doing or getting extravagant nice... dianna 2008-03-31T11:50:30-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007447.html Bet you didn't know there even were degrees of separation between the revolution and me. Not because the revolution and I are inseparable, but because you can't have degrees of separation when things are simply utterly unconnected. Me, I am... dianna 2008-03-29T23:10:32-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007443.html I went out last night with my sister's Delightful Former Housemate (DFH for short), who is in town for an obscure classics conference I couldn't possibly comprehend less. We took a stroll through Powell's and then I dragged him across... dianna 2008-03-27T17:22:07-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007437.html When my sister tells me to watch a movie, I run, I do not walk, to the video store and I watch it. First she was right about Hedwig, and now this? After taking ten years to get around to... dianna 2008-03-23T15:30:26-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007434.html I can't describe to you the weirdness of the Portland Allergy Cult. Actually, I can: you know how Inglis, Florida banned Satan from its city limits? Portland has, by overwhelming popular agreement, banned rhinovirus. There is no such thing as... dianna 2008-03-19T23:14:49-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007430.html While reading about the repatriation of some skeletons rudely removed from an Alaska Native village in the 1930s, I came across a quote from one Douglas Preston, former manager of the department of publications for the American Museum of Natural... dianna 2008-03-18T19:23:49-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007426.html I just realized I don't ever have to worry about wearing green on St. Patrick's Day again. I have a great big heap of leafy greens permanently inked all over my back and arms, and if anyone tries to pinch... dianna 2008-03-17T09:39:31-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007424.html Last night one of my roommate's delightful drunken friends asked me if I thought I was going to stay in Portland, and I shocked myself slightly by saying I wasn't sure. How could I say such a thing? All over... dianna 2008-03-16T01:30:20-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007413.html Do the following: Fire up iTunes (or whatever music-sorting program you have that has both filter and randomize functions). Get into your main library, hit random, and start playing whatever comes up. While it's playing, pick any word in the... dianna 2008-03-10T22:34:36-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007409.html Hilarious anthropological fact time! So, the Ghost Dance, right? Pan-Native-American religious movement of the late 19th century, with political overtones rooted in the displacement, extermination, and general bullshit oppression of large numbers of Native American people and tribes in the... dianna 2008-03-10T00:14:06-08:00 http://snoqualmie.cementhorizon.com/archives/007406.html The bibliography for my repatriation paper is five pages long in standard American Anthropological Association format and single spacing. This fact has allowed me to legitimately work on my paper for two hours solid without writing a single word of... dianna 2008-03-08T19:25:50-08:00