The Glass Character
Sunday, August 29, 2021

It's the SAM DICKER SHOW!

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The things I find online, late late at night! I confess I "borrow" footage from some other channels, who in turn have "borrow...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

🐷A Pig at the Opera (Pre-Code cartoon)

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  This slightly naughty pre-Code cartoon features a character jumping up and down on an operatic pig`s huge bosom, I wonder if this sort of ...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Tillie the Toiler Fashion Parade!

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Though most people have never heard of her, Tillie the Toiler must have been the best-dressed comic strip character of all time. Created in...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Harold Lloyd: Facebook profile pics

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  Back in the day, I used to really work at Facebook covers/profile pics (please do not ask me why), and I came out with a new one every wee...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Crazy Camay Soap Lady

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  The lady in this Camay soap commercial seems a little too ecstatic, somehow. . . 
Sunday, August 22, 2021

😍"I'm in the Mood" (for WHAT??)🤩

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Nothing like those old K-Tel ads to transport you to another level of reality. Then you can't wait to get back.
Friday, August 20, 2021

😳1938: A VERY GOOD YEAR FOR TELEVISION!😲

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1938 WOULD have been a very good year for television, if it had existed. But in a sense, it did - if in a nearly-exclusively-one-sided way. ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

💥FEROCIOUSGUMBY UPDATE! Saying swears, Meghan Markle hair, keep cool, ge...

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I don't appear in too many of my videos, but I literally wanted to see what my hair looks like now, and can't ever get a good view i...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Why I HATE "mental health"

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I hate buzzwords and fads, and they exist in every single area of human endeavour. The one I hear repeatedly now is "mental health...
Monday, August 16, 2021

The Troll Doll Channel: GRIM REAPER and COOL SKATER!

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These two represent the alpha and omega of trollhood. As Bob Dylan puts it: "I sleep with life and death in the same bed." 
Sunday, August 15, 2021

🤡CARNIVAL FROM HELL😲 (badly-damaged film)

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This was one of the worst-damaged pieces of film I've ever seen. How I love the sparkling surrealism, the sense of bombs going off every...
Friday, August 13, 2021

🌞GOOSE ON THE LOOSE: Canada Geese TRAMPLE Goose Barrier!🌞

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Geese don't read signs very well. Or maybe they read them TOO well, and just ignore what they say.

Take a gander (or take a goose!)

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I don't know why I've had this rather inane nursery rhyme repeating in my head lately. I don't know how it got started. I'm ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Tell Tale Tit (your tongue shall be slit)

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This was one of those accidental finds. For some reason a line from a nursery rhyme popped into my head - no, wait, it was something I read ...
Friday, August 6, 2021

HOLY SHIT, BATMAN!

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Kenneth Hagin causes a man to fall out of his chair in a paroxysm of religious ecstasy, just by waving his hand around his head. Must be a m...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Every once in a long time. . .

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Below is a nice little unexpected comment on a YouTube video I made several years ago, about Harold Lloyd and my struggles to capture his e...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

The Troll Doll Channel: GIANT Dam Trolls!

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One of the more gratifying aspects of troll collecting has been sharing them on my YouTube channel. I suppose this gives me an excuse to buy...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

The PHILCO PREDICTA Guy!

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My favorite part of the Philco Predicta ad. This is the Philco Predicta guy.

😲WOW, WOW, WOW!! 1965 Philco PREDICTA TV Commercial🙄

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The Philco Predicta was quite possibly the ugliest piece of electronic equipment ever made, let alone the ugliest TV set. Yet its "futu...
Friday, July 30, 2021

False Prophet

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This is the Summer of Bob, but then again, it has been that way for 50 years. This song is actually helping me to walk. My pace has slowed w...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Cute Lamb Needs Attention

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Just something cute to get you through the day. Yes, it has come to this!
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

MASSIVE Canada Goose colony in Barnet Park!

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My wild goose chase and other bird adventures are keeping me sane right now (as sane as is realistically possible, that is). This goose colo...
Monday, July 26, 2021

FIFTY SHADES OF EVIL: common traits of cult leaders

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Here are the typical traits of the pathological cult leader (from Dangerous Personalities) that you should watch for:  1. He has a grandiose...
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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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