The Glass Character
Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Monday, January 22, 2018

Imagine the horror: Civil Defense puppets

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I don't know where these eerie civil defense short films were shown: probably on TV, though t...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

I was a Cold War baby

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                               This is only a test.
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Trust no one!

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This is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard, and inspired a flurry of paranoid gifs, and even an animation (featuring paranoi...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Visions of a Cold War Kid

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When I was a kid, back in the 1960s, everything was The Future. I was constantly hearing about what life would be like "In The Year...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Vanishing point: The Wrigley Zoo

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Clap hands, one, two Let's take a trip to the Wrigley Zoo Chitter, chatter, yakety-yak When you talk to the animals they talk ...
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Sunday, June 29, 2014

This is only a test

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     (From Ask MetaFilter): An old memory of color TV? Color on a black and white TV? What?! (1950s filter). My dad was born in 1952....
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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