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Stateside With Rosalea: The Bay
Monday, 8 April 2002, 9:57 am | Rosalea Barker
Daylight saving begins today so I shall spare you, dear reader, any further brooding ruminations on the state of the world and point out instead that it's Cherry Blossom Festival time in San Francisco's Japantown. Not only that, but Herb Caen Day celebrations ... More >>
Stateside: The Mum is dead, long live the Mum
Tuesday, 2 April 2002, 8:32 am | Rosalea Barker
Here's a cartoon I'd like to see: the Queen Mum is leaning down out of her cloud in heaven, grabbing two young whippersnappers by the ears and banging their daft heads together. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Hanging Together
Monday, 25 March 2002, 1:15 pm | Rosalea Barker
Sorry I'm late. Just got in from church. Don't usually go there, but a fellow Oceanic who recently moved into the neighbourhood wanted to check out St Joseph the Worker, which is just around the corner from me. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: The Mastodon's New Hose
Monday, 18 March 2002, 9:20 am | Rosalea Barker
There's a popular US saying that refers to something being so obvious and so discomforting that nobody even mentions it - "the elephant in the living room". One such creature loomed large in the nation's living rooms last Sunday night when CBS broadcast ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Politics And Art
Monday, 11 March 2002, 9:21 am | Rosalea Barker
Well, you can't say that Scoop doesn't bring you the real scoop or that Mama Rosa doesn't deliver the good oil. Didn't she tell you - at the time of the very first debate between the Republican candidates hoping to run for Governor of California ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: "Bastards!"
Monday, 4 March 2002, 10:24 am | Rosalea Barker
Such was the headline in the 'Sydney Morning Hotpot' last week, quoting actor Michael Poe's outrage at learning his fellow Australians had been disenfranchised by their election system all these years. Poe discovered this on a flight from LA when someone ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: The Running Girls
Monday, 25 February 2002, 9:24 am | Rosalea Barker
I guess I should take my own advice every now and then. If I'd looked at the SmartVoter website instead of referring to the Chronicle's 'Voter's Guide' last Sunday I would have realised that actually Gray Davis has three challengers from within his party ... More >>
Stateside: Putting Your Back Pocket Into It
Monday, 18 February 2002, 9:53 am | Rosalea Barker
For someone like me, who comes from a country where a political candidate risks censure for 'treating' prospective voters by throwing a couple of snarlers on the barbie, the huge amounts of money that are spent on political campaigns here in the States ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Snapshots
Wednesday, 13 February 2002, 10:08 am | Rosalea Barker
Looking south down Highway 1, which will take you to Montara where there is an AYH hostel in a lighthouse. Denny's is a family restaurant chain currently running a promotion called "Re-ignite the Dream" to raise a million dollars for a civil rights ... More >>
Stateside: Watch Out! Drivel Hijacking Ahead
Monday, 11 February 2002, 10:12 am | Rosalea Barker
I'm sorry, gentle readers, but your abject correspondent cannot report on the opening ceremony of the winter Olympics on Friday night. After a hard week of scrivening it was just too much to have to board the iron horse for a trip to San Francisco's ... More >>
Stateside: Memories Are Made Of Mist
Monday, 4 February 2002, 11:34 am | Rosalea Barker
One of the hidden extras about being an ex-pat is the unseemly delight you experience in the presence of something that reminds you of your original home. That bloke on a peak in Darien could not have squealed more loudly than I did at my first glimpse ... More >>
Stateside: Clinton’s Address Today At Berkeley
Wednesday, 30 January 2002, 9:25 pm | Rosalea Barker
As President George W. Bush so very nearly said in his State of the Union address: drivel is real and it must be opposed. More >>
Stateside with Images: The Way From San Jose
Monday, 28 January 2002, 10:43 am | Rosalea Barker
Rosalea Barker takes to the road and illustrates the way from San Jose…. More >>
Stateside: Madam Rosa's Tea-cup Prediction
Monday, 28 January 2002, 10:32 am | Rosalea Barker
One of the places I visited on my little trip to San Jose at the end of last year was San Jose State University. It's pretty much right in the middle of town, and is a very pretty campus with a mix of Spanish-style and modern architecture, having ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Tempis Fugitives, Etc.
Tuesday, 22 January 2002, 9:33 am | Rosalea Barker
Who would have thunk it? Not only am I old enough to remember the days when steam locomotives roamed the earth, but I've lived long enough to see the demise of the lead balloon. I suppose THAT went down like a presidential pretzel. Suspicious Old ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Same As It Ever Was
Monday, 14 January 2002, 9:38 am | Rosalea Barker
That first full week back at work after the holidays is a killer, isn't it? At least I had some light relief in mine... a visiting researcher came and asked me for a box cutter so he could get open the boxes of equipment he'd brought with him on the ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: A Flea In Her Ear
Monday, 7 January 2002, 9:05 am | Rosalea Barker
I have become obsessed with San Jose, or Santa Jojo Jo as I am sure she is really called. It is she who lured away NBC television from San Francisco and now trumpets her victory from a transmitter atop Mt Loma Prieta, disconcertingly just out of reach ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: The Year In Review
Sunday, 30 December 2001, 12:06 am | Rosalea Barker
January 16, when a suicide trucker drove an 18-wheeler twice around the block gathering speed and then rammed it into the California State Capitol building in Sacramento where it erupted in a ball of fire. For the Spooked on Coincidence among us, write ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Praise Be
Monday, 17 December 2001, 9:16 am | Rosalea Barker
We are huddled here today beneath the cone of silence, speaking in code, lest the creepy crawly webbots that catapulted me to the top of the Scoop ratings last week on account of a few acronyms and keywords should find us and distort the news-value ... More >>
Stateside: Pass The Perspective Please
Monday, 10 December 2001, 9:48 am | Rosalea Barker
Saturday evening, New Zealand was a laughing stock Stateside. When movie buff Joel Siegel asked Elijah Wood what he missed most about his native LA in the 18 months he spent away from it filming the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy, Wood replied: "I ... More >>
