The Glass Character
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

My Lord, What a Morning!

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Music from my old church choir, circa 2001: two mikes, ten singers (all untrained), led by a jazz musician who had never directed a choi...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Miss Gladys Cooper

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I was drawn to these sumptuous photos of early-20th-century actress Gladys Cooper because of her unconventional looks - not exactl...
Friday, May 24, 2019

KITTEN KONG: the whole story, AT LAST!

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Is there hope in bad times?

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  I found this compelling quote a few years ago, and thought to myself: things are so bad right now, how can anyone believe this? No...
Monday, May 20, 2019

Branded (in color)

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Though I almost never watched them, I always loved the theme songs of Westerns in the '60s - The Virginian, Maverick, Death Valley D...

Soviet Soul

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Monumentally cheesy record album covers from 1980s Soviet Union.
Friday, May 17, 2019

Don't buy this car

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Just don't. 

Gabrielle Ray in the 1900s

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I know almost nothing about Edwardian actress Gabrielle Ray. But these hand-tinted photos are lovely, if highly stylized. They revea...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Famous movie scene re-enacted by cats

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"Hold on, and suck in!" "MEOW!"

Dancers on the edge of reality

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I've been re-editing some of my old gifs, and since there are several thousand of them - yes, that's right - this could  take q...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Christopher Walken: bad romance

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Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! Caught in a bad romance Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! Caught in a bad romance Rah-rah-...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Birth of Prince Archie: Harry's Happy Dance!

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Madame de Pompadour

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Another amazing creation by Marina Bychkova. This doll of Madame de Pompadour has the most elaborate headpiece (you can hardly c...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Christopher Walken's FIRST movie role!

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I found this little oddity through a strange podcast called Walken 101 , which purports to discuss each and every film/TV role Christoph...
Monday, May 6, 2019

Four takes on a head shake

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Playing with the speed on a nanosecond-long clip of Christopher Walken doing an incredibly sexy head-shake.
Friday, May 3, 2019

Dolls in distress

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The astoundingly beautiful and powerful Enchanted Dolls made by Russian artist Marina Bychkova come up again and again in thi...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

"THE GRIP": or, How We Can Keep Ourselves Ethereal

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This appeared in “The Grip” (a Toronto publication) on 5th April 1884:  WOMAN'S BUGBEAR or  HOW CAN WE KEEP OURSELVES ETHE...
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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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