http://archtypevolution.net Searching for meaning in all the wrong places. Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:59:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my favorite movies is Tombstone. I saw it in the theater not long after the death of my best friend.  It's not that its a perfect movie, or that the performances are Oscar worthy.  It's mainly because of Doc Holiday. Val Kilmer's best performance.  Little things like spinning ... http://archtypevolution.net/?p=133 The Jurassic Coast. Apparently ripe with fossils.  We had the most delicious  meat pie there.  In the states we've got pot pies and hot pockets, but it's just not the same as a good meat pie. We didn't have time to traverse the missile range and see the fossils. It was ... http://archtypevolution.net/?p=122 This is what you see as you look across the Tuckaseegee River when you drive south on 19 towards Bryson City, North Carolina: My first thought was that some locals had been using the river as a junk yard, but this is not the case. The southern Appalachians around the Smokies can ... http://archtypevolution.net/?p=107 Every morning as I drive to work I see this rock formation in the nearby mountains that looks like a breast. I have named it in honor of one of my paramedic partners for whom every cold day or dead patient was “colder than a witches tit.” Like ... http://archtypevolution.net/?p=94 Part 1: Arrival, and the economy Ford stick shift to Corfe Castle. Heathrow and the Tube It was only a nine hour flight from Houston, not space flight, just cruising over the curve of the earth going the right way because the winds are in your favor and the friendly skies boost ... http://archtypevolution.net/?p=64 Memories of being a candy striper. Not stripper.  Shut up.  Sitting in the hospital basement,  watching over the hospital library, writing a science fiction story about a spaceship captain, female of course, to pass the time.   The captain and her hapless crew encounter a planet run by a ... http://archtypevolution.net/?p=63 I did a couple of things that I haven't done in a while today.  Things which used to be a common occurrence for me.  One, I took a walk.  A ramble.  A stroll around the neighborhood.  Another, I started a reading a book.  Not just any book, but a book ... http://archtypevolution.net/?p=62 Chicken and dumplings, if done correctly, is not only a comfort food, not only meant to be savored, but it is something meant to be wallowed in, like you were suddenly an inch tall and swimming in warmish soup. The broth is everything. Fresh chicken allowed to burble ... http://archtypevolution.net/?p=61 Three billion years ago. The Earth turned faster, and the moon hung larger in the sky. A month was not a month, and a day was not a day. A breath was no breath at all. Not for my kind, the oxygen breathers. The world wasn't ... http://archtypevolution.net/?p=59 I grew up in a tourist town, so I had a early fascination with display.  Gatlinburg exists to distract.  To pull you this way and that, to relieve you of your money.  The older attractions drew on Appalachian cliches: bears in cages, rocking chairs of rough wood, grannie in her ... http://archtypevolution.net/?p=58