The Glass Character
Showing posts with label Popeye cartoons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Popeye cartoons. Show all posts
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Olive Oyl's Beauty Treatment

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  Olive Oyl's beauty routine, which is as detailed and transformative as Cleopatra's. Well, maybe not. But she could lend herself ou...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Auto eroticism, part 2: the Popeye connection

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As a kid, I am sure I saw this Popeye cartoon (called Service with a Guile , a title no kid would ever understand) repeatedly. I rem...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Olive's beauty ritual

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Eugene the Jeep

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This is probably my favorite of my many favorite cartoons from the first Popeye series of  the early 1930s. Long ago, my children g...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

My strange obsession: the auto-erotic car

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Behold, the only car I've ever been truly obsessed with: the 1940 Mercury Westergard convertible. I thought I saw one of these...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

Popeye and the exploding phallic symbol: don't read this post! Whatever you do!

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Yes, in a strange sort of way. I remember this one freaking me out as a kid. I wondered why that car looked so odd, more like some sort o...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Out of the inkwell, into my dreams

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Fatter 'n a hamster's ass!

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I swear, this isn't as incoherent as it seems. It all ties in with the grand show of vintage cars I took in on Sunday, my favorites be...
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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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