The Glass Character
Sunday, January 11, 2015

The wife-tossing contest

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He really means this stuff. He thinks it really happens. That's what drives me crazy. Today my husband starts to tell me about this...

Best film trailer of all time

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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Top 10 Most Awkward Moments on Live TV

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Friday, January 9, 2015

Whose idea was this?

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It has long been my belief that most things in this world are very badly designed. The designer just does not think it through. Never h...
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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Here to stay is a new bird: Paco, take 2!

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Almost camouflaged is Paco, my new, eight-week-old baby lovebird. This bird has been such a delight to be with. She learns so quickly,...

Say "hello" to Paco!

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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'...

Oscar, Igor and Little Tich: degrees of separation

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For several decades now I've been chasing down a Stravinsky album called  Favorite Short Pieces . It had some gorgeously eccentri...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Grab it and pull: John Garfield and Oscar Levant

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Don't watch all of this, because most of it is a little slow. The good part starts around 2:00 and is only about 45 seconds long. T...
Monday, January 5, 2015

Leprechaun in Alabama (Autotune Remix)

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Dupes, dopes, Doyle, and a leprechaun in Alabama

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You know how one thing leads to another? No? Neither do I, it's only January 5. I haven't started ANY of the things I've r...
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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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