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Stateside with Rosalea: Fury Logic
Wednesday, 2 April 2003, 8:44 am | Rosalea Barker
I can't help myself. I just had to turn on a right-wing drivetime radio show this morning. Got there just in time to hear them open their "international scumbag" story file. Made me wish I'd been listening yesterday after Peter Arnett got fired ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Monday, gloomy Monday
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 8:08 am | Rosalea Barker
On Sunday morning, I watched a talking heads political TV show for the first time since early January. It was ABC's 'This Week' and the host was interviewing former (Bush Snr) Secretary of State James Baker. Baker was talking about winning the peace ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: That O-town sound
Monday, 31 March 2003, 8:21 am | Rosalea Barker
Saturday I went to an all-day gospel workshop at the First Congregational Church in Oakland. The First Congo bills itself as an "arts-positive, multi-cultural, justice-making, spirit-led" transformative faith community, open to people of ... More >>
Stateside: Something Beginning With "Ch"
Saturday, 29 March 2003, 6:18 pm | Rosalea Barker
It's Friday morning here, and I have the day off work because of a holiday honoring Cesar Chavez. He's a Mexican American who established the National Farmworkers Association in Delano, California, in 1962 - an organisation that gained international fame in ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Anti-War Pictures & Link
Friday, 28 March 2003, 9:55 am | Rosalea Barker
2500 years ago Shakyamuni Buddha said: Victory breeds hatred, The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, Giving up both victory and defeat. (Dhammapada, Verse 201) More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Tuesday, sandy Tuesday
Thursday, 27 March 2003, 8:52 am | Rosalea Barker
Hi Tony. Before you meet with your friend today (yes, you *do* have a friend, G!), could you please give Helen a tinkle and ask her who was elected PM in 1935? Then do a web search on his first and last name. You're bound to come up with the website ... More >>
Don't be alarmed. No, really. Don't.
Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 8:20 am | Rosalea Barker
Stateside with Rosalea: Don't be alarmed. No, really. Don't - Gmng, gmng, gmng! Do you still have a smile that looks like a left-over from last year? That's what a radio ad for a dentist just asked, with totally unconscious humour. And did my ears ... More >>
Stateside: You Go, Gollum!
Tuesday, 25 March 2003, 8:24 am | Rosalea Barker
Well, *that* creature won't ever work in this town again. No, I don't mean Clammy G, but the lady in the beautiful gown at the Oscars who was shown mouthing "And so they should!" at Steve Martin's wisecrack that a bunch of teamsters were ... More >>
"Musul Bombalanyor" and "The City That Knows How"
Monday, 24 March 2003, 8:58 am | Rosalea Barker
Communications satellites have taken the moving image full circle back to being a silent film. On Saturday, as I had lunch in San Francisco, the Turkish channel NTV was playing on a big monitor up in the corner of the restaurant. Last time I was ... More >>
Bring Home The Troops - Send In The Protestors
Saturday, 22 March 2003, 7:11 pm | Rosalea Barker
Gmng, gmng, gmng! I'll say one thing about this war - it's getting me into some very good habits. I walked up Market Street to school again last night because it didn't look like a bus would be coming any time soon, on account of a protest march. On ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: The morning after
Friday, 21 March 2003, 8:38 am | Rosalea Barker
gmng, gmng, gmng, as Aunt Daisy might say if she were texting. For those who aren't Kiwiettas in the HRT time of life, Aunt Daisy was a Wellington radio personality whose daily show always began with a cheery "Good morning, good morning, good ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: VE Day
Thursday, 20 March 2003, 9:00 am | Rosalea Barker
Good morning, good morning, good morning! Well, possums, I hope you don't mind if I write to you every day - sharing all the endearing little details of life Stateside. Of course, I don't exactly live in a typical US town - although it's probably a fairly ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Eureka!
Wednesday, 19 March 2003, 9:35 am | Rosalea Barker
Great news, Californians! There is a way you can put the Bush-anointed 48 hours to good use, AND support the troops by giving them a vibrant democracy to come back home to. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Faith and gomorrah
Monday, 17 March 2003, 11:20 am | Rosalea Barker
Happy St Patrick's day down there! Heaven only knows we won't get a chance to celebrate it here tomorrow, seeing as that seems to be the day set for the invasion of Iraq. Coincidence perhaps? Well, I've just been listening to a radio show put on by the ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Fries with that?
Friday, 14 March 2003, 2:54 pm | Rosalea Barker
Back in September of 2002, I fell in love with a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle called the Hummer. The TV and print ad campaigns featured a bright yellow one, and on TV it was driven by a lone woman through grey, empty but menacing streets. The ... More >>
Reasons NZ Should Not Be A US Postal Abbreviation
Monday, 10 March 2003, 10:44 am | Rosalea Barker
I don't say that because I've fallen victim to Marxist proselytising, but because it is a truth that is self-evident to anyone in the US with a mailbox and a phone. I am so under siege by telemarketers (mostly for telecommunications or financial ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: David Carson at SFSU
Wednesday, 5 March 2003, 9:22 am | Rosalea Barker
During the 1990s, I suddenly had trouble reading things. It wasn't because my eyesight had deteriorated - page layout had. Letters were bumping into each other or actually overlapping every which way, type was coloured something awful and had no leading ... More >>
Column of absolutely no interest outside Taranaki
Wednesday, 26 February 2003, 8:58 am | Rosalea Barker
Most weeks I write this column on the weekend, edit it on Monday night and send it on Tuesday morning. This weekend was no different, but it is now Monday going on Tuesday and I'm starting off completely afresh, fuelled by late night pizza and ... More >>
Madam Mime and the Karaoke Kristians
Wednesday, 26 February 2003, 8:54 am | Rosalea Barker
Stateside With Rosalea: If you google "liturgical dance", you'll likely come up with a miscellany of references that range from the Catholic Information Network's advising against having anything so profane in a service, to Carrie B's on-line store of angel-wing ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Finally Last Sunday
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 9:38 am | Rosalea Barker
Three things came to fruition last Sunday: 1) The peace march in San Francisco, 2) I went to see 'Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' and 3) I finished reading 'This Just In' More >>
