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Stateside with Rosalea: There Goes The Sun
Monday, 3 December 2001, 7:38 am | Rosalea Barker
In the summer of 1999 I visited New York. It was the last week of the summer vacation and the second week of a heatwave. Two words: hot, crowded. Coming as I did from a small antipodean city in the middle of winter, NY took some adjusting to. The friend ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Thanksgiving
Monday, 26 November 2001, 10:08 am | Rosalea Barker
I spent Turkey Day at home this year enjoying the delights of the Norse god who has moved in with me. A couple of days earlier I'd paid two burly Sikhs to carry him up the stairs and over the threshold into my apartment, and now his perfectly symmetrical ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: San Francisco's Streets
Monday, 19 November 2001, 9:51 am | Rosalea Barker
On Saturday I started changing the world, one doorknob at a time. Armed with some pamphlets that fit over doorhandles and the house numbers of registered voters who'd voted in the November 2000 election, I walked down the sunny side of 21st Ave, from ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: What You Lookin' At?
Monday, 12 November 2001, 9:36 am | Rosalea Barker
The last book I bought before moving to the States two years ago was John O'Shea's collection of memories and documents 'Don't Let it Get You'. I figured that if the living ever got too un-easy here I could open it up, put on the soundtrack album ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Pass The Envelope Please
Monday, 5 November 2001, 9:05 am | Rosalea Barker
"Math Instructor. 2 month assignment on US Navy ship at sea. Immediate openings. Masters Degree in Math required. Central Texas College, San Diego." Try telling me THAT's not scary! It's an ad currently on the San Francisco Chronicle's website ... More >>
Stateside: You Go Girl!
Monday, 29 October 2001, 11:06 am | Rosalea Barker
This column has been nobbled by anthrax. It was going to be about the October 21st report-back of the delegation from the Women of Color Resource Center who went to the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban. But the previous Thursday the House ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Ladies’ Week
Tuesday, 23 October 2001, 8:23 am | Rosalea Barker
Jane Jacobs. In the days after 911, one of the images shown most often was of New Yorkers going to Washington Square Park to light candles, leave messages, say prayers, come in contact with their fellow human beings. Thank you, Jane Jacobs. In the late ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Musical Edition
Friday, 19 October 2001, 1:42 pm | Rosalea Barker
An Open Ditty to the world leaders meeting in Shanghai this weekend (to the tune of 'Sergeant Krupke', from 'West Side Story') More >>
Stateside: John Ashcroft for President!
Monday, 15 October 2001, 10:07 am | Rosalea Barker
"We can adjust our way of doing things but we should not adjust the things we do." John Ashcroft, US Attorney General on 'Meet the Press', Sunday October 14, 2001 More >>
Stateside: Travel Special - True Grit
Monday, 15 October 2001, 10:04 am | Rosalea Barker
I heard the good tidings last Sunday afternoon sitting in the Flagstaff Amtrak station watching the TV news - the Emmies would not be going ahead that night. It wasn't really until the next morning when the train arrived in LA and I took the Metrolink ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Columbus Day Photo Special
Tuesday, 9 October 2001, 11:57 am | Rosalea Barker
The attached photos are from Gallup, New Mexico, on historic Route 66. 1 - the diamond jubilee decorations, 2001 2 - whaddya fighting for? 3 - Navajo talkers code (break the code before you see the movie!) 4 - Navajo talkers code mural, dedicated September ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Cowgirls Aren't In Kasas
Monday, 8 October 2001, 9:41 am | Rosalea Barker
Stateside with Rosalea Even cowgirls aren't in Kansas any more, Toto. - Tony Bennett and kd lang at the Chronicle Pavilion, Concord CA Wednesday, October 3 More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Bizzaroland
Monday, 1 October 2001, 10:03 am | Rosalea Barker
To hell with the twin towers, where's my laundromat?!! Just half a block down the street was the scummiest, not-workingest collection of washers and driers you ever did see, and now the building's been gutted. Its only virtues were that it was close ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Think Big. Move Fast.
Monday, 24 September 2001, 7:49 am | Rosalea Barker
So says the TV ad for CONOCO, whose double-hulled oil tankers are probably at this very moment hanging out at the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan waiting for that pipeline from Central Asia to arrive. Hey, maybe the Pope's going to turn the spigot while ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Rugby Kicks Ass!
Monday, 24 September 2001, 7:48 am | Rosalea Barker
So wrote Mark Bingham on the rugby page in the staff copy of his Los Gatos High School yearbook. Yearbook editor and the only student in the school's history to have captained the rugby team twice - that honour usually being reserved for students in their final ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: To Whom It Does Concern
Wednesday, 19 September 2001, 9:48 am | Rosalea Barker
To turn an intrinsic value that we take for granted every day into the excuse to devalue some other individual life is to participate in giving up your agency as an individual. More >>
Stateside: Peace And Love District No. 9
Monday, 17 September 2001, 9:49 am | Rosalea Barker
There's these three guys out goat-hunting, right, and they come to a stream that has been turned into a raging torrent by heavy rain up in the headwaters. They have to cross the stream and can't think of any way to do it as a team so it's every man ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Not A Good Morning
Wednesday, 12 September 2001, 4:47 am | Rosalea Barker
Waking to the news that the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York had been hit by hijacked airliners was nothing short of surreal. Walking to work past a panelbeaters that usually has music booming out of it, I catch the words "...meters ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Make Work Pay
Monday, 10 September 2001, 10:38 am | Rosalea Barker
At 2am each morning, and from three or four blocks away, I can hear the progress of one local entrepreneur as he makes his way west towards the Golden Gate. His shopping trolley looks like an orbital diagram of the water molecule, huge plastic rubbish ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Bubble Nation
Monday, 3 September 2001, 9:10 am | Rosalea Barker
One of the most popular soft drinks in the US is Snapple, a juice drink. It's labelled "all natural" and one popular variety contains "Kiwi and Strawberry Juices from Concentrate and Natural Flavors". All this on the front part of ... More >>
