The Glass Character
Sunday, August 31, 2014

IT'S A LIE!: The plump juicy raisin scam

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All right. I've already spent too long at the computer, and have "keyboard finger", in which my arthritically-swoll...

A festival of GIFS from the 1950s: "Look! Up in the sky!"

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Full marks if you can guess where this came from. I stumbled upon it during my late-night gif-image crawl. Looked like it might len...

Resurrection

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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Harold Lloyd Sneezing

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Barred or Bard? The eloquent owl

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This is the closest to what I heard in my back yard last night. I'll have my ears peeled for a return visit. (I never knew owls could ...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Rudy, Harold, book and bird

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The perfect frame for my Rudolph Valentino vintage postcard from Kevin Brownlow turned out to be no frame at all - or almost - one of t...

It must have been owls

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This was an odd day, an odd week, and sometimes considerably worse than odd. You see, after my last routine mammogram, I got the dread...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Sex for a buck?

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  This-here vintage ad for a marriage manual, a classic of enlightenment and orgasmic edification, is going to require a little transla...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Vanishing point: The Wrigley Zoo

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Clap hands, one, two Let's take a trip to the Wrigley Zoo Chitter, chatter, yakety-yak When you talk to the animals they talk ...
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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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