The Glass Character
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Chopin and Piltdown Man: just a coincidence? I DON'T THINK SO!

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(Blogger's note. For a couple of decades now, there has been a rumor, theory, whatever, that SOMEONE out there owns a recording ...

Paging Dr. Frankenstein: The Volta Labs recordings

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They just keep on unearthing these unearthly sounds from the past, recorded on everything from warm candle wax to mucilage applied to cer...

It's alive! It's ali-i-i-i-i-i-ve!

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This thing looks like it was recorded on a circular saw that had seen too much hard use. The only good thing about it is its brevity. But ...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Obituary Blues (short fiction)

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Late December. Maybe it wasn’t the best time of year to be looking for this. But after her mother-in-law’s death at the first of the mo...

Copy the penguin!

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Let's copy the penguin! http://members.shaw.ca/margaret_gunning/betterthanlife.htm
Sunday, December 25, 2011

"Nola! Please stop! I'm a broken man!"

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Never thought I'd hear this one again! http://members.shaw.ca/margaret_gunning/betterthanlife.htm

A perennial favorite

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. . . featuring a local hippo. http://members.shaw.ca/margaret_gunning/betterthanlife.htm
Friday, December 23, 2011

Be thou my vision

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I looked for a long time for this one! I went through innumerable YouTube videos of this hymn, many of them excruciating. It wasn’t just...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Miracle on Rae Street

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Only at this time of year can you get away with this kind of display! This incredible light show blazes in my neighborhood every Chri...
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Turtle race!

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The First Annual Puerta Vallarta Christmas Turtle Race: flappy little, flippy little baby turtles set loose by Caitlin and Ryan! Caitlin...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The emotional curve-ball

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I don’t know if this qualifies as Grinchitude or not. Probably not, because it’s all about a phenomenon – a social quirk, or something –...
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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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