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Stateside: A Few Of My Favourite Things
Monday, 16 April 2001, 2:58 pm | Rosalea Barker
Was it a trick of the dawn's early light? The cold air? The rain-slicked streets? Whatever it was, when I threw back the curtain and threw open the window early one morning last week I was instantly back in a Taranaki childhood morning. Having come ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Clumsy Rhino, Hidden Mynah
Monday, 9 April 2001, 9:30 am | Rosalea Barker
Ess Eff's patron saint of journos, Herb Caen, once wrote: "A true Californian is someone who knows that the hills are naturally a golden brown which is interrupted briefly in winter by the appearance of a greenish scum, which soon disappears, returning ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Special Interests
Monday, 2 April 2001, 10:08 am | Rosalea Barker
My favourite cartoon this week showed POTUS standing bestride a small planet - one foot planted in Germany, the other in Japan - his combat skirt made of tyre retreads, and a hubcap serving for a breastplate. Speared on his sword is the Kyoto Protocol. ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: How Dare You Fail!
Monday, 26 March 2001, 9:10 am | Rosalea Barker
There is something admirable about the young man who was reportedly shot in the jaw and buttocks by a police officer at El Cajon near San Diego this week. It wasn't admirable that he'd driven up with a shotgun at lunchtime and was seemingly shooting ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: The Last Weekend Of Winter
Monday, 19 March 2001, 9:40 am | Rosalea Barker
It's St Paddy's Day today but they had the 149th SPD parade in San Francisco last week, so instead I had a Polish sausage at Ghirardelli Square, where an Irish street fair was promised but didn't seem to have yet eventuated. No doubt with the street ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Whoopy Tai Yai Oh!
Tuesday, 13 March 2001, 9:04 am | Rosalea Barker
A 50 minute flight through the Sierra Nevada takes you from Oakland, California to Reno, Nevada - the self-styled "biggest little city in the world". Southwest Airlines, celebrating its 30th year in business, has $30 one-way fares. And for $3 ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Lucky For Some
Monday, 5 March 2001, 9:21 am | Rosalea Barker
Last Sunday afternoon, sitting in my kitchen upstairs in an old two-storey building in the East Bay I felt like I was back in Wellington again: the floor and furniture were moving - and kept moving for at least 10 seconds - in that side-to-side motion ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: An American Life
Monday, 26 February 2001, 9:44 am | Rosalea Barker
"In the Winston Racing nation, the right to remain silent is one we rarely exercise." So it says on the cover of the matchbooks that are given away with Winston cigarettes. This week that right was no doubt exercised nationwide, if only for two minutes, ... More >>
Stateside: Lemon Tree Very Pretty
Sunday, 18 February 2001, 1:59 pm | Rosalea Barker
The Berkeley campus of the University of California sports what must surely be the most aromatic monuments to ill-informed decision-making that you could find anywhere in the world. The early planners of the campus decided to plant copious trees that ... More >>
Stateside: Seattle On A Budget
Monday, 12 February 2001, 9:42 am | Rosalea Barker
Americans are brought up to be helpful and polite. I tell you this so that you'll preface any request for directions with the words "Excuse me", and will take the directions given with a grain of salt. The desire to be helpful can sometimes ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: What does New Zealand mean?
Monday, 5 February 2001, 9:44 am | Rosalea Barker
I was asked that question last week by someone in a workplace literacy programme. It was asked in the context of introducing ourselves and talking about what our names mean. New Zealand, I said, doesn't mean anything. It's just the name given to some ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Reality Happens
Monday, 29 January 2001, 10:23 am | Rosalea Barker
The first series of "Survivor" has just won the People's Choice award for best reality based tv show. "Zooality tv" seems like a more appropriate term for placing people in a constrained situation in full public view and then watching ... More >>
Stateside: So Long, It's Been Good To Know Ya
Tuesday, 23 January 2001, 8:28 am | Rosalea Barker
If smirks wore boots, George W's was wearing steel caps with razor blades in the toes the day, last week, he was asked if the incoming administration would keep a federal order in place to help California weather the power crisis. California passed ... More >>
Stateside: Christmas in Seattle
Thursday, 28 December 2000, 4:05 pm | Rosalea Barker
There is only one word for San Francisco. It's an affront. Last Christmas Day I walked out from the tourist hotel I was staying in at the top of Market St and could have fired a gun down that usually thronged thoroughfare and hit nobody. More >>
Rosalea Barker: Ada v. Gloria
Thursday, 14 December 2000, 7:27 pm | Rosalea Barker
One particular TV ad in the "got milk?" campaign has been playing rather a lot in the last 36 days. It features a young guy stuffing what looks like a giant Oreo (cameo creme) in his mouth while walking around a zoo. More >>
Rosalea Barker: One Shot Deal Don't Matter
Sunday, 10 December 2000, 8:16 pm | Rosalea Barker
The superstitious among us say things come in threes, so I wonder if Al Gore is at home in the VP mansion listening to his Van Morrison collection, trying to choose a soundtrack for his concession speech. Russell Crowe and Don Johnson both searched ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Keep Going Down The Path!
Friday, 8 December 2000, 8:41 am | Rosalea Barker
Keep going down the path! So yells Russell Crowe in the TV trailer for the hostage movie about to open in two days time, "Proof of Life". The presidential stand-off feels like a hostage drama too with no romantic Meg Ryan-type relief More >>
Rosalea Barker: Radio With Pictures
Monday, 4 December 2000, 9:27 am | Rosalea Barker
Chaos. Bifurcation. CNN. Wizard of Oz. Red velvet curtains. I swear my cellular neural networks are all in a pother over this United States Supreme Court thang. Hoorah for audio transcripts, court reporters and those folks who do the lovely drawings ... More >>
US Elections: The Custard Thickens
Monday, 27 November 2000, 4:44 pm | Rosalea Barker
Bush made what amounted to a victory speech at 6:30pm PT tonight, saying Dick Cheney will be heading up a transition team, and asking Gore to concede. More >>
US Elections: Austin, We Have A Problem
Monday, 27 November 2000, 9:38 am | Rosalea Barker
Do you remember "Soap", the TV serial that began each week with someone recapping what had happened last week and then saying: "Confused? You won't be after this week's episode"? Well, substitute 'hour' for 'week' and 'Vote' ... More >>
