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Stateside: And Now, Here's The Weather

Monday, 21 February 2005, 6:47 pm | Rosalea Barker

When I was leaving work at 5pm on Friday night, I was astonished to see a gaggle of students standing with their cellphones pointed to the sky. Were they trying for better reception, I wondered? Oh, what a technodinosaur I be! They were photographing ... More >>

Stateside Poem: The Slough of Slumgullion

Monday, 14 February 2005, 3:49 pm | Rosalea Barker

The Slough of Slumgullion strode through the town : His britches were brackish, his braces were brown : His socks smelled of mothballs : His shoes smelled of peat : His cheeks were all sunken : His breath was like sleet More >>

Stateside with Rosalea: Waaaah!

Monday, 14 February 2005, 3:47 pm | Rosalea Barker

I am currently in the Stew of Despond. I use the word advisedly, a) because there's just so much in the mix, and b) because, Stateside, "slough" rhymes with ''stew.'' More >>

Stateside: This Week, Last Week, Yesterday, Never!

Monday, 7 February 2005, 2:37 pm | Rosalea Barker

Earlier this week I happened to catch a glimpse of the BBC Rough Science series that was filmed in New Zealand. It was the episode where the scientists had to use the scant materials available to them in a deserted West Coast sawmill to decide whether ... More >>

Stateside: Inky Dinky, Kiss My Pinky

Monday, 31 January 2005, 3:50 pm | Rosalea Barker

I was wrong. It wasn't a harrowing week for news after all. First, Johnny Carson up and shuffled off this mortal coil, so we had lots of comic interludes. Then came the joyous sight of Iraqis all around the world voting absentee in the Castor Oil ... More >>

Stateside Book Review: Undivided Rights

Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 2:05 pm | Rosalea Barker

Of all the TV news clips over the past three days regarding the thirty-second anniversary of the US Supreme Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade, only one stood out. More >>

Stateside: Some Things Beginning With P

Monday, 24 January 2005, 11:32 am | Rosalea Barker

You can always tell when those are coming up because the entertainment industry gets in and softens you up by scaring the bejeezers out of you. I lost count of the number of trailers I saw on Saturday night TV for new horror movies opening next Friday. ... More >>

Stateside with Rosalea: Big Chill

Friday, 21 January 2005, 11:56 am | Rosalea Barker

Well, I've just watched the inauguration address and commentary on BBC News streaming video and I'm not sure what to think. BBC, like all of us, deigned the most significant words that Bush said to be the ones about people who live in tyrannies being able ... More >>

Stateside With Rosalea: 2004 Kaleidoscope

Monday, 17 January 2005, 11:55 am | Rosalea Barker

**Most effective weight-loss diet** Airline water. Coming back from DC in the middle of the year, I drank a tiny paper cup of the water on tap in the plane, spent the next eight weeks running to the bathroom, and lost ten pounds. More >>

Stateside With Rosalea: I am

Monday, 10 January 2005, 11:37 am | Rosalea Barker

Even two weeks' silence is not enough to honour the dead. There will never be enough time to do that. So I give in to my own need to make sense of the event of (almost) 1 am UTC, 26 December, 2004 and write. More >>

Stateside: America (The Book)

Monday, 27 December 2004, 6:07 pm | Rosalea Barker

Christmas brings out the misanthrowup in me: I swear if I see one more news item about people Doing Selfless Deeds, my rainbow yawn will stretch from here to eternity in both possible places I might spend such a timespan in. More >>

Stateside With Rosalea: Superstars On Sunday

Monday, 20 December 2004, 11:41 am | Rosalea Barker

Eewww! Did I detect a tinge of green in the aura of White House chief of staff Andrew Card this morning when he was asked on ABC's This Week how he felt about presidential adviser Karl Rove having been considered for Time magazine's Person of the Year award? ... More >>

Stateside: Two Movies, A Concert, And A Remedy

Monday, 13 December 2004, 10:53 am | Rosalea Barker

This Spanish-language film, subtitled in English, follows the adventures of two middle-class rakes as they travel around South America on an aged Norton in the early fifties. Along the way, one of them picks up a nickname because of his Argentinian dialect ... More >>

Stateside with Rosalea: A Call To Action

Monday, 13 December 2004, 10:34 am | Rosalea Barker

Monday December 13 being the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December after the presidential election, it is the day on which the Electors in each state will give their vote for President and Vice President. More >>

Stateside: When The Seventies Were The New Sixties

Monday, 6 December 2004, 12:45 am | Rosalea Barker

Q: Where did you wake up on New Years' Day, 1970? A: On the golden sands of Tahuna Beach, Nelson. It was late in the morning and my face was sunburned all to heck. We'd been out seeing in the New Year too late to get back into the youth hostel so ... More >>

Stateside with Rosalea: Strict Constructivism

Monday, 29 November 2004, 12:36 am | Rosalea Barker

Well, my dear little piwakawakas, I had many things I was planning to tell you about this beautiful Sunday morning -- Oregon Gooseberries, aka Baby Kiwis; San Franciso's Not in LA advertising campaign; the full-page attention NZ's Pinot Noir and Wellington ... More >>

Stateside With Rosalea: Hospitality Day, 2004

Friday, 26 November 2004, 10:32 am | Rosalea Barker

The Thanksgiving Day holiday is ''long enough to fly home and short enough to have to submit to it,'' according to someone I'd asked about its significance. What they're submitting to is the obligation of attending some sort of family get-together, with ... More >>