This time I'm posting the links to my Scoop columns as they appear when you go to the website and search for "Rosalea" and then limit the search results by my byline and the year.
1/7/02
Stateside With Rosalea : A Flea In Her Ear
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 ...
1/14/02
Stateside With Rosalea : Same As It Ever Was
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 ...
1/22/02
Stateside With Rosalea : Tempis Fugitives, Etc.
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 ...
1/28/02
Stateside: Madam Rosa's Tea-cup Prediction
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 ...
1/30/02
Stateside: Clinton’s Address Today At Berkeley
As President George W. Bush so very nearly said in his State of the Union address: drivel is real and it must be opposed.
2/4/02
Stateside: Memories Are Made Of Mist
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 …
2/11/02
Stateside: Watch Out! Drivel Hijacking Ahead
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 ...
2/13/02
Stateside With Rosalea : Snapshots
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 ...
2/18/02
Stateside: Putting Your Back Pocket Into It
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 ...
2/25/02
Stateside With Rosalea : The Running Girls
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 ...
3/04/02
Stateside with Rosalea : "Bastards!"
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 ...
3/11/02
Stateside With Rosalea : Politics And Art
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 ...
3/18/02
Stateside with Rosalea : The Mastodon's New Hose
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 ...
3/25/02
Stateside With Rosalea : Hanging Together
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.
4/2/02
Stateside: The Mum is dead, long live the Mum
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.
4/8/02
Stateside With Rosalea : The Bay
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 ...
4/15/02
Stateside with Rosalea : Household Spanish
"In an unprecedented event in Mexico's history, this past Tuesday the Mexican Senate denied President Vicente Fox Quesada permission to travel to Canada and the Western United States." So began the email sent on Friday night to subscribers ...
4/22/02
Stateside With Rosalea : Hullo Sailor
A supreme court? Steady on, Old Girls! Faint though it is, there is still a glimmer of hope that a stay-at-home Kiwi will win an Academy Award for best director/best picture without Aotearoa having to become the 52nd state of the United States. Australia, …
4/29/02
Stateside With Rosalea : Time For A Sesqui
Talk about Tam and Tem, the new hot men! Midweek I switched from one channel - where Mr Temuera Morrison was looking dangerously polite in a promo for the new 'Star Wars' movie - to another, just in time to catch Mr Lee Tamihere being interviewed on the …
4/30/02
Stateside with Rosalea - Photo Supplement
Two postmodern R2D2s, eager to board the Muni light rail on San Francisco's embarcadero, are dwarfed by the double-decker Bay Bridge slung above them. When travelling on the lower deck in the fog, you feel like you're in a Star Wars movie set.
5/6/02
Stateside with Rosalea : Maltese Blue
There was welcome relief this week from the steady stream of US, Israeli and Palestinian ambulances that have populated TV's local and international news since September 11. Un-PC as the Maltese Cross (late of Jerusalem and Rhodes, and now based in Rome) …
5/13/02
Stateside with Rosalea : Portnick's Complaint
I'd be less than Irish if I didn't notice an unusual word popping its head up over the babblescape three times in as many days. Not that "stout" is all that unusual a word - why, I saw it 30 times in one beer chiller just last weekend. Hey, …
5/20/02
Stateside with Rosalea : Tourist edition
Golly, it was an eventful week. What with a 5.2 earthquake to get us going - the building I live in swayed like a blues mama - and then the new tabloid format of the 'San Francisco Examiner', with its flip-over two front pages, followed by the …
5/20/02
Stateside: The People vs. the Executive Office
Heaven knows, I didn't go to the Amelia Earhart Symposium at the Western Aerospace Museum on May 17-18, 2002, in order to become intrigued about that pioneering pilot's disappearance. She flew. She fell out of the sky. Joni Mitchell wrote a song about …
5/27/02
Stateside With Rosalea : Where You From?
I've now lived for almost three years in a land where men have fannies and wear drawers, and I've got so used to the local lingo that it's been a while since "u" muscled its way into the 'hood, behaved badly, and spoiled my sense of fun. These …
6/4/02
Stateside with Rosalea : Uncle Sam's Waistband
Pardon my delving, but what is going on down there? It would be very nice, thank you, for a nation as well-respected as New Zealand is by the people of the US not to give the words "proportional representation" a bad name. It is a concept …
6/10/02
Stateside With Rosalea : Leadership As Spectacle
It was the umbrellas that did it - fair brought a tear to me rheumy eyes, they did. There they were in their random glory, poking up above the sea of Union Jacks being waved by the squish of people in the Mall at the end of the Golden Jubilee weekend. …
6/17/02
Stateside With Rosalea : Adventure With Pictures
Let's not start at the very beginning. It's such a very good place to end. Herewith therefore, the reverse account of a trip from West to Midwest USA.
6/24/02
Stateside In Dublin: The Pub That Roared
Last Sunday, 16 June, was something of a novelty date in Dublin. As happens every year on the day the events in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' took place, Bloomsday celebrations were in full swing.
6/28/02
Stateside with Rosalea : Up north (With Pics)
From Dublin I flew to Manchester, where a security alert meant that we were all put onto a bus on the tarmac and whizzed through immigration without so much as a stamp in our passports. I took a train directly from the airport to Leeds. Trains in England …
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