The Glass Character
Monday, August 22, 2016

"In the winter of our lives": Let's call God!

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I live for old KTel, Ronco and Popeil ads, but this is the first time I've seen an infomercial for a phone that will connect you to ...

Poco Car Show 2016: my slide show!

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A little gif-slideshow I put together from photos of the car show. Oh GOD how I love old cars! I don't know what it is about the...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

The Wizard of Old

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This is from the first film incarnation of The Wizard of Oz (1910). I just found out that some film historians believe Dorothy is pl...

Ozzity

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Perked and jerked: sexual innuendo in coffee commercials

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This blog is quite gif-heavy, but probably you've noticed that. If they work all the time, your computer is better than mine. I ...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

I love, love, LOOOOOOVE this!

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The Oldest Pants: or, just go shopping, will you?

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Just wanted you to know that they've found the oldest pants. Or at least they think they've found the oldest pants. Who are...
Friday, August 19, 2016

"Clap hands, one, two": the vanishing point

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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 back. W...
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Stopette! Stopette RIGHT NOW!

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I could, can, and do watch old commercials by the hour. Some of them I actually remember - in fact, the 1950s ones are probably among...
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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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