The Glass Character
Monday, January 25, 2016

Men have been shot for less than that!

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Uninspired, and feeling more than a little sick, I've dredged up some good vintage ads from the million-and-one sites that pos...

A flood of memories

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A double rainbow

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There is some sort of commercial running now - for the lottery, maybe? - that has a guy exclaiming over a double rainbow. I kept thinkin...

Is there anything worse than haggis? I'll tell you.

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4 Vegetarian Haggis 20 reviews Made 23 times Recipe by:NORTHERNLIGHT1 "'Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Gr...

Nimoy and Shatner: before they were icons

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This is just what you think it is: a pre-Trek, pre-Captain Kirk William Shatner, he who appeared on various popular SF (or sci-fi or wh...

Stop Alien Abductions! (an excerpt)

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ALIEN ABDUCTEE FROM KENTUCKY WEARING A THOUGHT SCREEN HELMET "Since trying Michael Menkin's Helmet, I have not been bothered b...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Alien abduction: out there

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  This is an excerpt from one of the very first web sites I ever went on, Stop Alien Abductions. It's a step-by-step tutorial on ho...

X Files Football Delay: my sentiments exactly

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Yes. Though the reboot of The X Files was about as disappointing as I expected (especially Gillian Anderson's House of Wax/embalmed ...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

True love triumphs in a page and a half

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Woman’s World: $800 for Very Short Romance Stories Woman’s World magazine accepts submissions of 800 word romance stories for their mag...

Say. . . what??

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I knew I had put on a few pounds over the holidays, but. . .  Convenant. Does that mean. . . convenient?

Outrageous tourist complaints (maybe).

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Thomas Cook claims these are actual customer complaints, and maybe that is so. But I do find the egg-slicer thing a bit far-fetched. ...

Future past

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Friday, January 22, 2016

Why do I think I'm the only one?

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This was one of those rare things I shared on Facebook, mainly because it rang all my bells at once. These are "issues" th...
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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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