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Stateside: If You See Me Walking Down The Street
Monday, 27 June 2005, 11:48 am | Rosalea Barker
Well, possums I'm thinking of you on your Monday morning at work Down Under where the autumn solstice has just passed and you're headed into the bowels of winter. For me it's a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon, and I have to confess to being a bit ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: No Child Left Behind
Monday, 20 June 2005, 11:50 am | Rosalea Barker
"My definition of leading a successful life would leave me with a good job, a nice place to live, a great soulmate, and my own family." - Karl R. Linn More >>
Stateside with Rosalea Barker: Right On!
Monday, 13 June 2005, 12:41 am | Rosalea Barker
Would somebody please create a John Tamihere action figure and send it over here for me to take to work? I'd like it to say, "If you're thick enough to ask the question, you don't deserve an answer." And do that arm thing from the haka. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Fat Pipe Mama
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 12:26 am | Rosalea Barker
Is that a pipe in my wallet or are you just glad to see me? After less than a month with broadband--heck, I haven't even got my first bill yet--I can see clearly now what all the fuss is about. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Memorial Day 2005
Tuesday, 31 May 2005, 5:16 pm | Rosalea Barker
The last Monday in May is a federal holiday called Memorial Day. Its observance began not long after the Civil War to honour those who had died in battle. Today, it honours all the dead in all the wars that the US has ever been involved in.* More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
Monday, 30 May 2005, 5:26 pm | Rosalea Barker
Circus Barker for a day, I'm here to tell you not to miss the Inaugural Maori Film Festival in Wairoa on Queen's Birthday Weekend. Given that I never could figure out why Northland didn't have a thriving spaghetti Western film industry up there among ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: The Mother of All Bells
Monday, 23 May 2005, 11:34 am | Rosalea Barker
Will somebody please tell the Minister for Information Technology that you don't actually have to type www. into a browser these days to get to a web address? It does not make you look hip to use "dub, dub, dub" when making a speech; it makes ... More >>
Stateside: Unleashing The Hounds Of 7-Point Type
Monday, 16 May 2005, 1:52 pm | Rosalea Barker
There's an ad running on TV here at the moment that features a white version of the black dog that lives at the White House. You know, one of those scotty terriers from the Black and White whiskey bottle. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: PSPTV
Monday, 9 May 2005, 11:48 am | Rosalea Barker
I have seen the future of television, and it is PSP. I'm not talking about just the technical feasibility of broadcasting to, and receiving input from, a handheld device like Sony's Play Station Portable, but about programme content itself. More >>
Stateside Images: Boise, Idaho
Monday, 2 May 2005, 12:16 am | Rosalea Barker
When I told friends that I was going to Boise, Idaho, the response I got was illuminating. "They're all survivalists up there." "White supremacist country. Beware." Coupled with my inkling that Boise (pronounced boys-ee) is the States' fun-time equivalent ... More >>
Stateside: The Town Bike, Part 2
Monday, 18 April 2005, 1:21 pm | Rosalea Barker
I got a wee bit sidetracked when I was writing my earlier column and forgot to explain why someone with credit cards at their max is attractive to lenders. Two words: debt consolidation. More >>
Stateside: The Town Bike Of Wilmington, Delaware
Monday, 18 April 2005, 1:16 pm | Rosalea Barker
Those of you old enough to have seen the moon before it had footprints on it might recall a fun little song with the words: "What did Delaware, boys? What did Delaware?... She wore a brand New Jersey, that's what she did wear." More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Sunday, Sunny Sunday
Monday, 11 April 2005, 1:49 pm | Rosalea Barker
With all this potting mix under my fingernails, I'm forced to observe--as an entry in my high school autograph book once did--that spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder where da boidies iz! More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Up In Smoke
Monday, 4 April 2005, 1:14 pm | Rosalea Barker
So, there I was in the 21st century. Sitting in an early 20th century North American church first built in the late 19th by a German Franciscan monk in his trademark neo-Gothic meets Spanish Mission style. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Saints Be!
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 12:20 am | Rosalea Barker
Coo-eee, you up there on the bandwagon. Have you got room for one more? Good-oh. Hold onto your hats then, cos here I come. Oops! Sorry Mr President, but you can't say I didn't warn you. Never mind, I'm sure stetsons are a dime a dozen where you ... More >>
Stateside: Karl R. Linn's Secret Garden
Monday, 21 March 2005, 12:15 am | Rosalea Barker
It is the first day of spring, and today in Berkeley, California, there will be a memorial service for Karl Linn, a landscape architect who died at the age of 81 on February 3. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Cableat Emptor
Friday, 18 March 2005, 10:43 am | Rosalea Barker
"Cable's new reality!" That's the breathy ad series a Very Big Cable Company is currently running here in the Bay Area in its fierce battle for market share. Suckered into it, I decide to sign up for a month's free cable internet, with no ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Courage
Monday, 14 March 2005, 4:28 pm | Rosalea Barker
Well, it's 6.30 pm Wednesday, 9 March, here in the Bay Area and CBS veteran reporter and editor Dan Rather has just said his last words from the anchor's chair. Last word, actually. ''Courage.'' More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: My 4 by 3.83
Monday, 7 March 2005, 10:16 am | Rosalea Barker
Last Sunday, for a couple of hours, I was the proud possessor of the holy grail of the US education system: a GPA of 4. By the time my second course grade was added, I had slipped to 3.83--on account of the minus sign after that second A--but that's ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Oops! My Mistake
Monday, 28 February 2005, 7:58 pm | Rosalea Barker
A couple of weeks ago, I had a wee rant about how the system of tenured professorships in US universities results in a king-barons-serfs atmosphere in those institutions. Supporters of the system say that the underlying reason for tenure--which guarantees ... More >>
