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Stateside with Rosalea: Adam's Rib, 2003
Monday, 1 September 2003, 8:57 am | Rosalea Barker
The entry on my calendar says that 26 August was Equality Day: "1920 - US women win right to vote with ratification of 19th amendment. 72 year struggle for woman suffrage is victorious." My Oxford Companion to United States History says the ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Chicago to Fort Worth
Wednesday, 27 August 2003, 8:20 am | Rosalea Barker
I left off last time in Chicago, waiting to board Amtrak's Texas Eagle, clutching the Texas Department of Transportation's 2003 State Travel Guide in my hot little hand. And hot it is in Chicago's Union Station. Along with the Texas Eagle, another ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Getting Flicked Off
Monday, 25 August 2003, 8:15 am | Rosalea Barker
Last week was the worst week I've experienced since being here in the United States. Worse than the second week of September, 2001. The explosion at the hotel in Baghdad that housed the UN mission was part of the reason; the under-reported theft of democracy ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Election, election...
Monday, 18 August 2003, 10:01 am | Rosalea Barker
Jeesh! The lengths those East Coast folks will go to in order to be top of the news bulletins again. A power blackout! Some folks here are saying it happened because all the TV channels' OB vans plugged into the grid at the same time just to film ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Milwaukee
Wednesday, 13 August 2003, 12:21 am | Rosalea Barker
I love Milwaukee. Straight up. There you have it. I love Milwaukee! It promotes itself as the Genuine American City, and makes it easy for you to get there and have a good time when you arrive. More >>
Two Little Missing Words
Monday, 11 August 2003, 10:24 am | Rosalea Barker
I imagine that anyone who grew up in the area served by the dental school in Wellington will know how it feels to be living in the United States at this particular time. It's like being headed for some dread destination - unemployment, penury, a terrorist ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Portland to Milwaukee
Wednesday, 6 August 2003, 12:39 am | Rosalea Barker
Somewhere near Cut Bank, Montana, I swear I heard Napoleon cussing in my ear: "What the hell was I thinking?" The Empire Builder train I was on had just passed a Harvest States grain truck and a shed belonging to the Oil Field Lumber Co. More >>
StatesideWith Rosalea: Views From The Road
Monday, 4 August 2003, 8:59 am | Rosalea Barker
For the past two weeks I've been riding the rails, across the northern tier states, down through the heartland, and along the southern rail route back to LA. I made stops in Milwaukee, Fort Worth, and Oklahoma City for two or three days at a time, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Hello Sailors
Thursday, 17 July 2003, 10:07 am | Rosalea Barker
Being a child of the fifties, I have a fondness for WWII memorabilia. And when that memorabilia takes the form of an actual, functioning Liberty Ship going on a cruise from San Francisco to the inland port of Stockton (where your California summerfruit ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: 2004 Election
Monday, 14 July 2003, 9:09 am | Rosalea Barker
Am I the only person to think it was weird that the USS Ronald Reagan was launched yesterday while Bush was in Africa? Is there a back story here to do with the Reagans and the Bushes? Did George W. offend the Navy in some way with his photo-op a few ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea Smoking gun or gaping hole?
Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 10:20 am | Rosalea Barker
Yesterday the investigators of the Columbia disaster proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that if you fire a piece of foam at 500 miles per hour from a gas-powered cannon at a model of the leading edge of a space shuttle wing, you can blow a hole in the ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Taking liberties
Monday, 7 July 2003, 8:38 am | Rosalea Barker
It's a lovely long weekend here, with Friday being the 4th of July or Independence Day. This most important national holiday commemorates the Declaration of Independence in 1776, an event usually referred to as the beginning of the nation. It wasn't. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Cinquobossy
Wednesday, 2 July 2003, 10:09 am | Rosalea Barker
Last week's triple digit temperatures gave way to a balmy Sunday for the Pride Parade in San Francisco. It's one of the largest transgender, gay, bisexual, lesbian parades in the country, but to watch the TV news you'd think there was only one theme this ... More >>
Stateside 2004 Election: Nietzsche-Al Disaster
Monday, 30 June 2003, 10:41 am | Rosalea Barker
Yesterday, a helpful bookshop assistant led me to the philosophy section in search of a book about butterflies. When I'd asked to be directed to the nature section, she'd thought I said Nietzsche. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Whale watcher watching
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 8:23 am | Rosalea Barker
Saturday 21 June was First Nations Day up the road in Canada, so it seemed like the right time to go and see Whale Rider, which had opened at local theatres the previous day, in time for the school holidays. The theatre chain it's being shown in - Landmark ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Not the any o'clock news
Monday, 23 June 2003, 8:37 am | Rosalea Barker
Whenever George Will - a conservative commentator on ABC's 'This Week' - says something self-deprecating about the US I catch a whiff of Eau de Rat. Like any scriptwriter - and what are these talking heads doing but writing the script for the way people ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Patti Smith
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 8:13 am | Rosalea Barker
It's a relief to get back inside and sit down at my typewriter... I've just been standing in the sun for three hours at a local park. Patti Smith and her band played for a large part of that time and the concert was broadcast live on KPFA, Pacifica ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Taking a flying leap
Monday, 16 June 2003, 9:09 am | Rosalea Barker
That George is such a dag, isn't he, pretending to fall off the Pratmobile! I'm sure he was just taking its inventor's advice - given at a recent college commencement ceremony - to make it your choice in life to do something really, really difficult. ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Blue, blue my food is blue
Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 8:04 am | Rosalea Barker
Being still a relative newcomer to the US, I'm sometimes at a loss to understand the correct etiquette in a particular situation. Is it bad manners, for example, to sock a supermarket checkout operator in the chops when she holds you up by reading ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Blonde v. Blonde
Monday, 9 June 2003, 8:50 am | Rosalea Barker
"I'm from the South, so I've had people like that in my home. They're one step up from trailer trash." People like the Clintons, that is. Thus spake a well-heeled matron in a San Francisco bookstore vox pop last week, when asked if she was likely ... More >>
