The Glass Character
Sunday, April 1, 2018

O Happy, Joyous Eastertide!

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Lines Written in Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant...
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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Reborn or undead: the Edison talking doll

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I hated dolls as a kid and never went near them, though my mother bought me something called a Debbie doll - she was brunette, with a ...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Glorious

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Grandma didn't just have cups and saucers. She had CHINA,  the delicate teacups and fluted saucers edged in gold, plates festooned w...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Comfy, cozy cat

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Cats are either double-jointed, or have such flexible bodies that their bones turn into water in a state of total relaxation. Bentley h...

Snowflake photographs from 1902

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It's hard for me to believe you could actually photograph snowflakes, but here they are. You'd either have to be in a very co...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Screwed at the border: why was my parcel held hostage by Canada Post?

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Now THIS really had me upset, to the point that I made a whole video about it. I cannot figure out why Canada Post would decide I had ...

My oats are bully: the dating game in 1865

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I think I would marry this guy. Decisions like this were made differently then. It was closer to an arranged marriage, which i...
Monday, March 26, 2018

A Canadian classic, reborn: The Kelligrews Soiree

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You may talk of Clara Nolan's Ball or anything you choose, But it couldn't hold a snuffbox to the spree in Kelligrews...
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Saturday, March 24, 2018

Get stuffed! The Rice Krispies Stuffy Doll

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I don't remember seeing this particular Rice Krispies ad as a kid, mainly because it was a few years before my time. Yes! There are ...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Rare Behind The Scenes Star Trek Footage

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What is so rare as an outtake on the Desilu lot? Spock smoking, maybe.

In the land of Dairy Queen

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Thursday, March 22, 2018

I love the impossible: William Shatner is 87 today

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Shatner is one of the obsessions I return to on this blog - this strange, oft-disjointed, almost-blog-about-nothing - because it inspires...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Behold. . . SIR RICHARD!

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Ringo Starr receives knighthood: 'I'll wear it at breakfast' By Mark Savage BBC Music reporter 20 March 2018 Former...
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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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