The Glass Character
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Don't give your heart (an aria)

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You must know this: it's not too goddamn smart To give your heart. To let some boy just trifle,  a -la-carte It's...

Some day, when I'm awfully low

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"Never Gonna Dance" music by Jerome Kern and words by Dorothy Fields Though I'm left without a penny, The ...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Khachaturian - Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

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No! No! This ISN'T the same piece I posted a few days ago! This is just the waltz from Masquerade , not the whole suite. But it's...

In the burrows of the nightmare: or why I liked English class

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I have a horrible confession to make. I liked English class. I liked it so much I had to hide it. I never said anything, never con...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

I just want to make a point

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I don't know, maybe I don't even need to post any text here. The pictures say it all. The fabled Mary Tyler Moore Show reunion ...

The Wrong Note Rag performed by Pot-Pourri

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Not written in the '20s, not even for a show set in the '20s, but rather the Swing era of the 1940s. Yet it's full of all tha...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Amazing grace: Kevin Rudd's act of faith

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Kevin Rudd launches passionate defence of gay marriage Australia 's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, a devout Christian, has stared down...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Khachaturian, Masquerade Suite

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A favorite. When I latch onto one of these, I listen to it over and over again. This is like dark, quirky circus music. The percussion, ...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Chef Boy-ar-dee: the lost gifs!

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Mama Mia and Santa Lucia! Did y'all know there was an actual, real-live, puffy-hat-wearing, spaghetti-cooking, Italian-talking Ch...
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...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Rachmaninoff Symphony no.2 op.27, 3rd Movement HD

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Hottest scene in literary history! Don't read this post!

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You wouldn't normally associate E. L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime (profusely adapted for both stage and screen) with er...
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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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