The Glass Character
Saturday, August 20, 2011

The Lost Penny: Shatner, pre-Trek

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You don't have to watch all of this episode: in fact, you don't even have to watch all of the excerpt of this episode to get my p...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Glass Character: yearning

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Do you know what it is to yearn? Have you ever yearned, I mean really yearned? Yearned for something you wanted so badly it scared yo...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

I am an elephant actor

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http://www.kiddierecords.com/ GO ON THIS SITE! Go . If you are anywhere near my age, which is 106, give or take a week or so, you will l...
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I saw him again last night

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I saw him again last night And you know that I shouldn't To string me along's just not right If he couldn't he wouldn't Bu...
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A feast for the eyes

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When I tried to find hurdy-gurdy music on YouTube, I first had to wade through innumerable versions of Donovan's lame '60s song, w...

An instrument built for two

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Now this one is strange, very very strange. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the tromba marina , that huge horn-like thing tha...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

So. . . what kind of eel is that?

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This video proves that sometimes the ridiculous is. . . sublime.

Why Carrie Fisher scares me

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"I had ECT yesterday, & the main thing that I remember about it is (other than hardly anything at all) that when they dragged me...
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Ricola

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Arieseni,muntii apuseni

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Tromba: ay, caramba!

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Whoa, boy! What do we have here?  Yesterday I started digging around for info on medieval/baroque instruments. There were some lulus. Cr...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry

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Since this is a lovely and balmy day, Let's look at a certain man today. Not just any man, you see But a man who is funny, ho h...

Man Plays Fire Extinguisher!

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The Worst Thing I Ever Saw On Public Access TV

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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Cavalleria Rusticana as you've never heard it before

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This was another instance of coming in the back door: I was trying to find the name of one of those old penny-arcade flip machines where y...
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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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