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Stateside: Nightmare In Yosemite National Park
Tuesday, 22 June 2004, 11:20 am | Rosalea Barker
We interrupt the previously scheduled travelog to bring you the Nightmare that is Yosemite National Park on a summer's day. More >>
Stateside: Rosalea Goes To Washington (Part 1)
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 11:15 am | Rosalea Barker
Okay, so what are the odds that your faithful correspondent would be checking into the Hinckley Hilton (as the locals here in DC call it) just as Ronald Reagan was checking in for his final flight to California? More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Ronnie Goes To Washington
Tuesday, 8 June 2004, 12:35 am | Rosalea Barker
You have to wonder about those folks at Aunty Beeb. There I was in my lunch break at a computer class in San Francisco on Saturday, surfing the web, and I happened upon the news.bbc.co.uk website ticker saying that Ronald Reagan had died. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Barbie Goes To Washington
Monday, 31 May 2004, 1:59 pm | Rosalea Barker
The silly old job counsellor at my soon-to-be-no-longer workplace thinks I'm clinically depressed. She obviously hasn't caught up with the latest acronyms on the subject. Anyone can see I'm suffering from e-gads!: electronically-garnered anxiety and depression ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Seaman's Memorial Photos
Monday, 31 May 2004, 1:17 pm | Rosalea Barker
The wreaths are piped aboard the SS Jeremiah O'Brien. Twelve wreaths were presented on the Sunday voyage, some by families and others by organizations such as the Marine Engineers Benevolence Association. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Convention Watch
Monday, 31 May 2004, 1:08 pm | Rosalea Barker
You have to love those Libertarians. On a Memorial Day holiday weekend when the airwaves are dominated by reminiscences about WWII because of the dedication of the new memorial in DC, they're holding their national presidential nominating convention in Atlanta, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Teaser
Monday, 24 May 2004, 2:04 pm | Rosalea Barker
I've just been out playing with the biggest toy in town, the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, which you might remember is the restored WWII Liberty Ship I cruised to Stockton on last year. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: The V-word
Monday, 17 May 2004, 2:02 pm | Rosalea Barker
The thunder of little cloven hooves racing for the hills, accompanied by loud bleats of ''Shrek save us!'' was heard near Phoenix, Arizona, this week. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Rosalea's Mailbag
Friday, 14 May 2004, 12:16 am | Rosalea Barker
Seeing as how you can't turn on the TV or pick up a paper or go to a news website without seeing yet more reasons for genetically engineering the xy chromosome out of existence, I'm left with the radio and my most constant penpal, the Direct Marketing ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Reviews, Sort Of
Monday, 10 May 2004, 1:25 pm | Rosalea Barker
Behold the new Rocky Horror Picture Show! I went to the early showing of this "monstrosity of a movie" as some funny-boneless critics are calling it, and wanted to immediately return to the next showing dressed in costume and spouting the simplistic dialogue. ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Cinco de Mayo, 2004
Wednesday, 5 May 2004, 10:02 am | Rosalea Barker
On May 5, 1862, the Mexicans defeated Napoleon III at Puebla, and this date is celebrated with a national holiday in Mexico. Many cities here in the US that have a large Mexican population celebrate with a weekend parade. More >>
Stateside: How Is VVPAT Like ZZ Top?
Monday, 3 May 2004, 11:06 am | Rosalea Barker
The front-page, above-the-fold news this weekend was the decertification of some electronic voting systems by California's Secretary of State. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: What A Dag!
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 2:12 pm | Rosalea Barker
Friends, I have suffered enough. Workmates are sending me links to the following story on the BBC website: ** NZ's famous sheep gets TV haircut ** Shrek the sheep, who evaded the shearers for six years, gets a five-star trimming of his giant fleece ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Money In The Bank
Monday, 26 April 2004, 11:27 am | Rosalea Barker
Despite all the brouhaha about electronic voting, there remains one very strong reason for opposing the solution suggested by some people of providing a paper trail for the voter: it's not called a "receipt" for nothing. More >>
Stateside: Liar, Liar, Tie's On Fire!
Monday, 19 April 2004, 3:51 pm | Rosalea Barker
I missed the president's press conference on Tuesday night - it was on at 5.30 on the West Coast and I was on my way to night class - but I got the gist of it as I passed by the newspaper vending machines the next morning. Most of the headlines ... More >>
Stateside: Is Santa Anna in the White House?
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 12:11 am | Rosalea Barker
One of the more interesting articles in the Qantas in-flight magazine for April was about John Lee Hancock's movie, The Alamo. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Speaking of..
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 12:21 am | Rosalea Barker
As usual, it was a real buzz to get back to Oakland, and even better to get back to my bed after the three-and-a-half movie flight from Sydney to LA. If I were a little less tired, I'm sure I could come up with a fun quiz for you, like: what is ... More >>
The Manly Ferry Cuts Its Way To Circular Quay
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 10:48 am | Rosalea Barker
I woke at 4 this morning, and when I got around to turning on the telly the US ABC news was on, complete with a ticker announcing Alistair Cooke's death. The 717 hours of his 15-minute weekly BBC radio show Letter from America probably did more to make ... More >>
Stateside: Bright Light, Big City
Monday, 29 March 2004, 12:08 am | Rosalea Barker
Which of these billboard statements is the odd one out? ''Sofa and Love $499'', ''Jesus saves from hell'', and ''Get horny again''. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Panic Stations
Friday, 26 March 2004, 11:06 am | Rosalea Barker
In class the other night, we were given two sheets of coloured paper, plus black and white, and asked to illustrate ''a bird or birds attacking a victim.'' When we put our work on the wall later, it turned out the unspoken keyword assumed by the ... More >>
