The Glass Character
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Have We Been Playing Gershwin Wrong for 70 Years?

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(The following is a piece from the New York Times which caught my eye, then dragged me right in. It's pretty long, but I had to r...

Embarrassing urgency? Try this!

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Monday, February 29, 2016

Would it KILL you to applaud?

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  I don't know Jenny Beavan from a hole in the ground, nor do I know anything about the Mad Max series, though judging from last n...

The Oscars: don't diss dis dress!

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I didn't get far with the Oscars tonight, bailed on it well before the end, telling myself I could always watch it on my DVR tomor...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Don't call me Ahab

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The Famous Tay Whale BY KNIGHT OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT OF BURMAH WILLIAM MCGONAGALL ’Twas in the month of December, and in the year 1883...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Bad poetry? Oh noetry!

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The Tay Bridge Disaster Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken...

One dead possum: will trade for chocolate

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D ead opossums, and other strange things you could be swapping on Bunz Trading Zone BY STEVE KUPFERMAN FEBRUARY 23, 2016 AT 2:2...
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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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