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The Obligatory Michael Jackson Column
Monday, 29 June 2009, 5:11 pm | Rosalea Barker
The opening credits appear over footage of cattle in the yards at a freezing works, identified by a large roadside sign. Their breath mists in the cold morning air. More >>
Rosalea Barker:Bus Trip to the Summer of Loss
Monday, 29 June 2009, 3:56 pm | Rosalea Barker
T he grey-bearded guy sitting in the back row of seats has that indefinable look I’ve come to quickly recognize in my nearly ten years here in the San Francisco Bay Area. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Fathers Day, 2009
Tuesday, 23 June 2009, 11:59 am | Rosalea Barker
Today is Fathers Day in the US, and my gift to Dads everywhere is a book: The Power of Stupidity, by Giancarlo Livraghi. Of course, neither gender has a monopoly on stupidity, but the English edition was published late last month, so it’s simply ... More >>
Stateside: Goodbye savings and loan?
Thursday, 18 June 2009, 12:10 pm | Rosalea Barker
As fate would have it, I was at home this morning and happened to turn to KRON4 in time to see President Obama give his speech in the East Room of the White House about 21st Century Financial Regulatory Reform. (WH release here .) More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Tennessee
Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 12:05 pm | Rosalea Barker
Tennessee is home to the largest rhinestone mine in the US— Elvis Presley ’s grave. Hey, put the guns down, folks, I loved the guy. Really! I meant “closet” not “grave”—in fact, I have a snippet of one of Elvis’s outfits (supposedly), ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Thar She Blows!
Monday, 15 June 2009, 11:16 am | Rosalea Barker
I haven’t been able to receive analog NBC very well for years now, ever since it moved its transmission to the South Bay, behind San Bruno Mountain (and have never been able to get its digital signal). NBC may have switched off its analog signal ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Kentucky
Monday, 8 June 2009, 12:12 pm | Rosalea Barker
What’s not to like about Kentucky? It used to have more whiskey stills than Feds to enforce the Prohibition. The official state drink is bourbon , which a) must be chugged straight from a 750L bottle, while b) learning to bootscoot to the Villebillies ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Vermont
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 12:21 pm | Rosalea Barker
What’s not to like about Vermont? It used to have more cows than people. The official state drink is milk, and the official state pie is apple pie. Not just that, but since May 1999, state law has decreed: When serving apple pie in Vermont, a “good ... More >>
A million dollar bounty on Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Blair
Monday, 1 June 2009, 12:50 pm | Rosalea Barker
A bounty on their heads! One million dollars was offered on May 30 at 2:58 pm PST by Dr Jurgen Todenhofer, former member of the German parliament, former judge and honorary Colonel of the US Army, to the one: More >>
A poppy for my thoughts this Memorial Day
Monday, 25 May 2009, 12:37 pm | Rosalea Barker
Click to enlarge Billboard in the DC Convention Center Metro station at the time of the 2007 Association of the United States Army annual conference and military-industrial marketplace. More >>
Rosalea Barker: Rest stop
Monday, 25 May 2009, 12:26 pm | Rosalea Barker
Well, possums, it’s time for a rest stop on our peregrination of these United States in the order in which they received statehood. The thirteen colonies that declared themselves independent of Great Britain on July 4, 1776, forming a loose Confederation, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Rhode Island
Monday, 18 May 2009, 12:29 pm | Rosalea Barker
The state so small that even its initials don’t fit on most maps. And if its full name were printed, it would stretch halfway across the Atlantic— Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations . It was the first colony to declare independence from ... More >>
Will Auckland stop being the greatest?
Monday, 18 May 2009, 12:15 pm | Rosalea Barker
Take that, Aussies! This week, Mercer, a company specializing in staff relocation HR issues, released its report on the top cities in the world for Quality of Living. Auckland is number 4, tied with Vancouver. Sydney comes in at 10, Wellington is 12, ... More >>
Second Annual National Train Day
Monday, 11 May 2009, 5:30 pm | Rosalea Barker
On May 10, 1869, the “golden spike” was hammered into place at Promontory Point , Utah, linking together the section of the transcontinental railroad that was built west from Omaha by the Union Pacific Rail Road Company, to the section built from ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: North Carolina
Monday, 4 May 2009, 1:44 pm | Rosalea Barker
Each year, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians holds a Festival of Native Peoples, and most of the costumed people in the video are from other tribes. There’s an official website for the EBCI and unofficial ones, where the hot topic for the moment ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Internet 20.NZ
Monday, 4 May 2009, 9:31 am | Rosalea Barker
Well, you gets what you pays for, I suppose, as this screen shot of the ad that appeared alongside Media7’s latest post on YouTube. Sure, let’s join the conversation about Clean Coal... Codswallop! More >>
My 5 cents’ worth about Earth Day
Monday, 27 April 2009, 1:28 pm | Rosalea Barker
Several months ago, I bought a 99c GreenBag and since then it has more than paid for itself in the savings I make by taking it to my local Lucky supermarket. As the cash register receipt above shows, I get a 5c credit every time I use it instead ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: New York
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 11:21 am | Rosalea Barker
“New York, New Yorkshire! It’s a wonderful town.” Hmmm. Let me try that again with 1977 lyrics instead of 1949 ones: “These vagabond shoes are longing to stray right through the heart of it, New York, New Britain!” Nope, there’s something ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Virginia
Monday, 13 April 2009, 8:44 pm | Rosalea Barker
At the time it became the tenth state to ratify the US Constitution in 1788, Virginia was much larger than it is today. In 1792, part of Virginia west of the Appalachian Mountains and known as Kentucky County became a state in its own right; and during ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: New Hampshire
Monday, 6 April 2009, 12:11 pm | Rosalea Barker
The ninth state to ratify the US Constitution, New Hampshire gets a picture just because. I took the photo out of the window of the bus taking me to Boston to catch a train to DC back in September 2007, after spending a week in a small town in the ... More >>
