The Glass Character
Saturday, August 21, 2010

A white doe

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A snow white doe in an emerald glade To me appeared, with antlers soft of gold, And leapt two...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

I love all-day suckers: Bessie sings the blues

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Oh yeah, oh yeah , it's Bessie Smith! Every line of this is heavily suggestive - particularly the aggressively sexual way she sings it -...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Burl Ives: did he fake his own death?

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Last time my husband and I were driving around Utah (having come to see Bryce Canyon, the holiest place in the world...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Was this thing made of chewing gum?

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Well folks, I don't have much that's new to say today except that thank GOD the heat has lifted. I turn into a melted Creamsicle at ...
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First Automobile: 1886 Benz

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In my car-car post of a couple of days ago, I got onto the subject of the first car. Since so many people were working on it at the same tim...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

BOOM!

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Ye gods, this looks terrible! Who knows if it will run. It looks worse than the National Film Board personal hygiene movies (which my teache...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

The Three Ages of Man: Car; Car;Car . . .

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I was going to call this post "and we'll have fun, fun, fun. . . " On the weekend, I went to my very first Car Show. I have no...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Jesus, that's funny!

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This is the way my mind works, when it works at all. I started watching a six-hour documentary about Monty Python. SIX hours. I couldn't...

Tacoma Narrows Newsreel with audio

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There are so many good videos of the Tacoma Narrows disaster that it was hard to choose. There must have been more than one person filming i...

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

A bridge made of tacos

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http:www.wsdot.wa.gov/tnbhistory/default.htm Gather 'round, all ye children, and listen to my tale. Collapsing bridge stories have...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Let me count the ways. . .

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How many ways can y'all say, "Your ass is sittin' on pomut, kopos, bumbac, bavina, algedon, namyk, pamuk, bawelna, or just plai...
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Have we devolved?

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A friend of mine recently wrote that he suffers from back pain. Since we can't get Ben Gay any more (or can we? Is it just going by a di...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Betty Boop Cartoon Banned For Drug Use 1934

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This has to rate as the strangest cartoon I've ever seen. What were these guys smoking?
Monday, August 9, 2010

Was Ernie Kovacs murdered?

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DEATH IN SIX TAKES Ernie is driving his Corvair station wagon at blinding speed along Santa Monica Boulevard, an unfamiliar route. He has ju...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) [II/IX]

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Saturday, August 7, 2010

An Ethiopian in the fuel supply

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I don’t know what got me onto this. My Dad used to sit at the dinner table, soused, and monologue by the hour. As his captive audience, we ...
Friday, August 6, 2010

But the greatest of these. . .

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When 17-year-old Tory Inglis went to New Westminster's first Pride celebration last June, she was pretty excited about it. It's not ...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Angry squirrel on a roof

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I don't know what these little buggers are so upset about. If I said these kinds of things in public, I might be locked up. Are they jus...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell death footage

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Contrary to past reports, there is indeed a secret video record of the death of Timothy Treadwell. It's so secret I'm posting it her...
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The sillies who tread on the lines

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OK, so the photo is faked. Or at least, it's not really Timothy Treadwell. But it's a photo of someone, probably Grizzly Adams. Thi...
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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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