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Stateside With Rosalea: I Am Curious, Jaundiced
Monday, 27 February 2006, 10:45 am | Rosalea Barker
Thursday night's CBS News included a segment that had me hopping mad by the end of it, so you can imagine my surprise when it was repeated on Friday night because it had garnered such a lot of feedback--presumably positive--from the public. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Away With The Fairies
Monday, 20 February 2006, 12:16 am | Rosalea Barker
Having either mistaken my column last week for a lament or in order to punish me for my nyah-nyah, the Weather Fairy delivered the following to the Bay Area on Saturday: More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Here Be Dragons!
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 10:46 am | Rosalea Barker
I could have sworn I'd fallen into a gap in the space-time continuum yesterday and warped my way back a decade to Courtenay Place, Wellington. Just as I got off the bus in my local neighbourhood, a dragon appeared, dancing outside the door of Farmer ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Reining cats and dogs
Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 2:43 pm | Rosalea Barker
::Dogs Bless America:: I saw a stars'n'stripes-coloured bumper sticker last week in the shape of a dog in motion--at least I think it was supposed to represent a dog in motion but it also looked alarmingly like a dog that was constipated. The ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea Barker: Cry Me A River
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 6:44 pm | Rosalea Barker
::Dredge the Potomac!:: The world's most famous smaw (solo middle-aged woman) has been taking a bit of flak, it seems, from a Russian politician for being such a scold. I was alerted to this by a sort of Outraged Mother of None column in the weekend ... More >>
Stateside: 21st Century Slavery
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 2:34 pm | Rosalea Barker
Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr Day--in fact, the twentieth anniversary of its being a federal holiday--so I was able to catch up on seeing evening network news. ABC, CBS and NBC all air their network newscasts at the same time here on the West ... More >>
Stateside: The Five Most Useful Things of 2005
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 11:54 am | Rosalea Barker
"Get to hell, God! What are you farting around up here for instead of rolling up your sleeves and getting to work down in the hot place?" Well, judging by the TV news bulletins, he's snarled in the traffic of folks asking to be saved from ominously ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Me, Too! Me, Too!
Saturday, 31 December 2005, 5:43 pm | Rosalea Barker
I've just been reading about made-up words over at Public Address, and this being a rainy Friday afternoon on which I have nothing better to do, I want to add a new word to the lexicon my very self. More >>
Stateside: Merry Central East Oakland Christmas
Sunday, 25 December 2005, 8:20 am | Rosalea Barker
Merry American Christmas? No--there's 51 countries (including the principality of Washington DC) in the United States, so that doesn't do it. Merry Californian Christmas? Nup. As any map of how folks voted in the recall election two years ago will show ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Angry, Angry, Angry
Monday, 19 December 2005, 11:11 pm | Rosalea Barker
Well, I've just watched the last part of President George W. Bush's Sunday prime-time address to the nation, and you should know straight off that I'm pissed off that I missed the beginning of it. More >>
Stateside: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Monday, 5 December 2005, 1:45 pm | Rosalea Barker
By way of easing into the interview I did with conscientious objector Josh Casteel several weeks ago, I asked him how he came to be speaking at UC Berkeley that day, and his reply included some background information about Christian Peacemaking Teams ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - Telly time
Monday, 28 November 2005, 2:56 pm | Rosalea Barker
NBC's Sunday night family movie this evening is Shrek--and if I watch it, I'm sure to see a "never-before-seen preview of Peter Jackson's King Kong" according to the radio ad I just heard. For a while, I was following the on-line production ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - F-words
Friday, 25 November 2005, 3:31 pm | Rosalea Barker
It's that time of year when every e-card, cooking show, magazine and newspaper article tells us that Thanksgiving is about the three f's: family, friends and food. For those of us who have fraught--if not downright failed--relationships with all three, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: I, Immigrant
Monday, 21 November 2005, 5:27 pm | Rosalea Barker
I keep postponing writing about Diwali and Eid--Hindu and Muslim festivals celebrated at the same time a couple of weeks ago. The gist of my musings is that, while a much publicised and failed attempt to have Indians and Pakistanis meet peacefully at the ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Fishy Whiff
Monday, 14 November 2005, 1:38 pm | Rosalea Barker
"In 1973 he purchased the landmark restaurant 'Jake’s Famous Crawfish' and within the year had partnered with Doug Schmick. While growing the successful restaurant company he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business, Executive Management ... More >>
Farewell to Rod Donald from the San Francisco Bay
Monday, 7 November 2005, 1:47 pm | Rosalea Barker
With one more hour another day perhaps a time of concentration we could rise up surpass, surprise ourselves and all of our ambitions maybe even thrust an unclenched fist through an empty cloud or pass a golden galaxy and with some patience and no ... More >>
Stateside: Rosa Lee Parks - The Power of Many
Monday, 31 October 2005, 1:30 pm | Rosalea Barker
As I was trawling the Net looking for non-gaga information about the 92-year-old woman who will lie in honor in the US Capitol Rotunda today, I came across--then lost--a quote attributed to the lady herself regarding the state of affairs in Alabama ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: IV With Joshua Casteel
Thursday, 27 October 2005, 9:07 am | Rosalea Barker
Rosalea spoke with conscientious objector Joshua Casteel during a lunch break at the On the Frontlines conference at UC Berkeley last weekend. Now an MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame, Casteel is an eight-year veteran of the Armed Forces ... More >>
Transcript: BFM's Noelle McCarthy IVs Rod Donald
Friday, 21 October 2005, 10:53 am | Rosalea Barker
On Tuesday, the afternoon after what was clearly not a high point in the political history of the Green Party, 95Bfm News Director Noelle McCarthy interviewed Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald about the election 2005 coalition negotiations, their ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Pshaw!
Monday, 17 October 2005, 11:37 am | Rosalea Barker
Well, shave me legs and call me Nermal! Never did I think I'd see the day when a political operative uttered the word "Pshaw" on television. But such is the whacky world of KRON4's Sunday morning show "4 The Record" that the utterance looked entirely ... More >>
