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Stateside with Rosalea: Ssssmokin'!
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 7:20 am | Rosalea Barker
It was a bad election day for the Democrats in some parts of California yesterday: what with President Bush stumping around in the ashes of San Diego county's wildfires and a member of the Green Party elbowing his way into the run-off for San Francisco's ... More >>
Stateside: San Francisco Mayoral Candidate Forum
Monday, 3 November 2003, 11:58 am | Rosalea Barker
One thing I find really frustrating about TV news here, is that they're so lazy about putting things in a time context. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Sylvia, Sylvia and Don
Thursday, 30 October 2003, 8:28 am | Rosalea Barker
Last Sunday we put our clocks back an hour, with the result that I woke up "earlier" than usual and caught the movie reviews on the CBS network's Sunday morning magazine. To my astonishment the two movies being reviewed had something in common: they were ... More >>
Of Mice At Play And Beast-Men At Work
Monday, 27 October 2003, 11:54 pm | Rosalea Barker
"Who wants to be the City's mayor? I am." I can't help thinking that's the tune that was going through Supervisor Daly's head last Wednesday as he swore in two members of his own choosing for the Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco. ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Poem Envy
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 10:34 am | Rosalea Barker
Thirty years ago I stepped ashore at Southampton, England, on my big OE. I'd travelled by the line known (stomach in cheek) as Chundris to the thousands of young Aussies and Kiwis who spent five weeks on one of its ships to get to the UK for $250. Much ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Da Mayor
Monday, 20 October 2003, 12:41 am | Rosalea Barker
Now that the Golden Hummer (truckus horribilis) is about to replace ursus horribilis (the Grizzly Bear) on California's state flag, all that remains to do is send some congratulatory thigh-rolled Cubans to the humidors of power in Sacramento and thank ... More >>
Stateside: From Jack To John And Back
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 11:31 am | Rosalea Barker
Besides Charles Dickens, two authors recommended to me as a child were Jack London and John Steinbeck. The recommender was me dad, who had emigrated to Canada in 1929 and worked in forestry and railroad camps before settling in the Canadian wheat belt ... More >>
Stateside: The Man On The White Horse
Monday, 13 October 2003, 10:29 am | Rosalea Barker
One of the comments that caught my ear during the Governor-elect's ride on a white steed to save California from itself was Schwarzenegger's comment as he left his polling place. Asked how he felt, he said he felt fine and that now everything was ... More >>
Stateside: Two Wily Old Dogs Shaking Off Fleas
Friday, 10 October 2003, 10:55 am | Rosalea Barker
While everyone else is oohing an aahing over Governor-elect ArSchwarz, your intrepid little scooper has delved beneath the surface and come up with these (paraphrased) gems from the California Secretary of State's website that have implications for ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Galloping Gertie
Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 8:44 am | Rosalea Barker
One thing you have to say about the president: he sure knows how to rub people's noses in it. No sooner does a poll come out saying that the most likely voter against the recall in California is a female African-American PhD from the Bay Area than ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Arianna of Troy
Monday, 6 October 2003, 9:08 am | Rosalea Barker
One is tempted to ask if that is a horse's arse one sees entering the gates of Sacramento, doing its business and then skipping gaily off across the horizon. Yes folks, hilarious Arianna Huffington withdrew from the California recall election this week, citing ... More >>
Stateside: Oklahoma City to Los Angeles
Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 12:14 am | Rosalea Barker
The morning I left Oklahoma City I was woken early by thunder, lightning, and - oh, sweet joy! - rain. The storm was stronger to the north and west of the city but it was great to be sitting on the train platform looking at the misty edge of the storm's ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: It's all in the game
Monday, 29 September 2003, 9:43 am | Rosalea Barker
I'm sorry, but I put you crook last week when I said I saw the California recall debate in a sports bar - I was referring to the atmosphere rather than the venue. Although... I'm sure a case could be argued for calling libraries sports bars of ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: The Recall Debate
Friday, 26 September 2003, 1:31 pm | Rosalea Barker
Well, possums. I've just been watching the much vaunted one-and-only debate between the five top candidates in the California Recall election. Decided I'd have the experience in a sports bar / focus group kind of setting, with the usual bunch of polisci and ... More >>
Stateside: Ah, Mccain - Are You Doing It Again?
Monday, 22 September 2003, 11:34 am | Rosalea Barker
First, the weather. A couple of weeks ago, the source for the Bay Area's winds became the North American continent instead of the Pacific Ocean. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Oklahoma City
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 9:14 am | Rosalea Barker
OKC is in the South. It mightn't look that way on the map, but that is the undeniable feel and look of the place. Like the cab driver told me, this city is run by good ole boys and they take pains to keep it like a small rural town: cheap rents and ... More >>
Close Your Eyes And Think Of Prussia
Monday, 15 September 2003, 7:56 am | Rosalea Barker
I must say this past week has been very Austro-Hungarian. First, there was the T-shirt I saw someone wearing which featured a pastel drawing of Arnold Schwarzenegger's noggin looking euphorically skyward and the words "California Uber Alles".Then ... More >>
Stateside: Fort Worth to Oklahoma City
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 9:35 am | Rosalea Barker
The once-a-day Heartland Flyer trip between Fort Worth and Oklahoma City is one of the few Amtrak routes that make money instead of losing it Service is financed through funds made available by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, and the train ... More >>
Stateside: Thinking Outside The Stadium
Monday, 8 September 2003, 8:33 am | Rosalea Barker
The most compelling reason the United States should not be in charge of any military operations around the world is American football. I came to this realisation at a hometown match this weekend, where I was continually in shock and awe of the daft ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Fort Worth, Texas
Wednesday, 3 September 2003, 8:23 am | Rosalea Barker
The painting reproduced on the front of the catalogue for the museum store at the Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art in Fort Worth, Texas, pretty much sums up my impression of that city. It shows two skunks trashing a cowboy camp. More >>
