The Glass Character
Thursday, June 15, 2017

"I'm afraid of love!"

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Gosling disaster!

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This was just so sad. A very small gosling had slipped through a grate across a stream, leading to a waterfall that made it impossible f...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Working girl: the life of Tillie the Toiler

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I will admit that the name Tillie the Toiler caught my attention. As usual, I was looking for something else: vintage comic boo...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

"The walrus was Paul": Beatles animations

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It was fifty years ago today, or whenever it was, that this landmark album first came out, and the world is celebrating. I wish I r...

Don't look down!

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I LOVE watching these guys rescue cats. They are so patient with them and wait until the cat is relaxed and trusts them before scooping ...

Kitty up a tree: animation

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Sunday, June 11, 2017

Goose stampede!

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Wild goose stampede! For reasons unknown, a large group of geese encompassing three or four families began to run away in terror. Or may...

Love in bloom

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Marilyn in the morning

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This will drive you NUTS!

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Make your own Scotsman

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The assignment was this: "Nanny, can you knit me a little Scottish guy playing the bagpipes?" No, I couldn't. Nevert...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Uncanny Danny doll

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I am not sure how I created this - I feel a bit like Dr. Frankenstein - but it's a "blank" doll, a form for any sort of ch...

Fur and purrs

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A monk dancing: animations

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When you come upon a trove of photos as gorgeous as these, you just have to try to find a way to make them move. Thus move...

Dead monk in the middle of the road

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Automaton friar in action Description This automaton of a friar can imitate a walking man thanks to a wind-up mechanism. The fri...
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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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