The Glass Character
Showing posts with label vintage toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage toys. Show all posts
Friday, October 12, 2018

Can't Help Falling in Love (on a kalimba)

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I had never heard of a kalimba before, but I sure recognized the sound. It's the tinny, plinky sound of my first toy, an old tin jac...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Nearly-identical vintage toys: compare and contrast

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It strikes me, after the fact, that I need to include a BIT of explanation with these ads rather than just throwing them at you. ...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Vintage peacock windup toy: I WANT ONE

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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Sea-Monkeys: so eager to please

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Honest to bloody God, I was going to postpone this 'til tomorrow or just forget all about it, being tired and crampy and out of sorts...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Since I will get absolutely nothing done today. . .

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I don't know why I do these things. An obsession is an obsession. But it's a fun one, for the most part. It's waiting for s...
Friday, May 17, 2013

A BLACK Harold Lloyd?

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It's not often I come across a new Harold Lloyd photo - new to me, I mean - and while nudging around today, I happened on this. ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Incredible discovery: I swear I'm not making this up!

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I swear, I swear , folks, I do not make these things up. While researching old, creepy doll gifs and vintage YouTube commercial vids...
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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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