The Glass Character
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Jerusalem dreams

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I had a very strange dream about Harold Lloyd.  I was listening to some gospel music, or rather watching it performed live, and it was...

Oscar Levant: one-man band

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Oscar, reclining and reflective, begins to dream. He dreams he is in a vast concert hall. . .  . . . playing Gershwin's ...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Bear on the Rampage: outtakes

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The gigantic black bear that terrorized the small town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, holding its citizens hostage for a tense tw...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Weekly World News: Bear on the Rampage!

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Hello, and welcome to the silly hour. Or, at least, the silly story of the week. I didn't get to see this bear, and yet, in some remo...

Is it Friday yet?

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Just one more musical contraption. . .

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I had almost forgotten about this monstrosity, yet another self-playing musical contraption from Siegfried's Museum in Rudesheim, Ger...

Siegfried's Haunted Dolls: take two

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Having finally found a much better video of the automaton-orchestrion from Siegfried's Museum, I wondered if I should completely rewr...

Enchanted (haunted?) dolls

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I have yet to see any really decent video of Siegfried's Museum of Mechanical Musical Instruments in Rudesheim, Germany. It looks lik...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Incendiary instruments

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Welcome to my nightmare . One of my continuing feverish obsessions is with, what, old stuff? Old stuff connected to music, to m...

The cheese that saved me

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Not long ago I posted a long screed about how horrible name-brand cheddar has become. Over the years, it's gradually morphe...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Fahrenheit 2014: or, the Bonfire of the Vanities II

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Local authors fume as Bezos holds secret Santa Fe retreat Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos watches a from the wings during the June 18 launch of ...
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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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