The Glass Character
Monday, January 31, 2022

FRIDA KAHLO: gleefully dabbling

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  "Thus, while her husband paints with large brushes on a huge wall surface, his wife, herself a miniature-like little person with her ...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

😽MUSICAL KITTY MEOWS in TUNE!

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This is why cute cat videos are still a "thing" on the internet.
Saturday, January 29, 2022

🌟Are these the first movies? 3D IMAGES FROM 1800s

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These are stereoscopic photographs, double images taken from slightly different perspectives, which when viewed through a stereoscope look e...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

George Gershwin meets the Lovely and Charming Mrs. Rivera (a. k. a. Frida Kahlo)

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  Jan. 23, 1936 One Thirty-Two East Seventy-Second Street New York Dear Elizabeth - After much patient waiting I finally was rewarded w...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Hello, George: My Gershquest continues

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What can you say about a piece of music you've fallen wildly in love with? Having barely recovered from discovering the Makoto Ozone ver...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

SHOCK WARNING: Return of the Dancing Pig!

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I am sorry.  I know I will never stop posting videos of The Dancing Pig . I keep finding new dimensions to this horror, and thus I must shar...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

🚗Is THIS the most dangerous car ever made?

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This is a kinescope of (obviously, given the long awkward silences) a live stage show which was typical of very early TV. Nobody knew how to...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

The way we live, the way we die

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There are strange, strange things that happen, things so inexplicable you can only understand them after years have gone by. The camera zoom...
Friday, January 21, 2022

"MENTAL HEALTH" is affecting my. . . mental health.

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TOM UTLEY: How to beat the blues - award yourself £10 every time you hear the phrase 'mental health' on TV or radio By Tom Utley for...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

💗HAROLD LLOYD Mends a Broken Heart in Dr. Jack (1922)

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How can you mend a broken heart? It helps if Harold Lloyd is your doctor. In spite of the heartbreak of my failed novel (and let's not l...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

💔The Tragic Death of George Gershwin

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This excerpt is from a much longer, and at times kind of tedious, bio of George Gershwin. The best part of it is the way they use paintings ...
Monday, January 17, 2022

🙀CAT GETS MAIL!😸

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My cat doesn't do stuff like this. But then - we don't have a mail slot, and it would be hard for him to get the mail out of the box...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

🤍The Troll Doll Channel: MAGICAL! Spinning in Silver🤍

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My trolls are a great comfort to me in this time of trial. But they're taking over my office. . .
Thursday, January 13, 2022

It was ten years ago. . .

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Abbotsford News, June 11, 2012 Lauren Gunning (pushing wagon) and sister Erica were among those participating in the Telus Walk to Cure Diab...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

😵HAUNTING VOICES FROM THE PAST: Historic Re-enactment of the EDISON TALK...

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My dolls are very generous with their time (meaning, all they do is sit there being dolls), so they were happy to do this historic re-enactm...
Monday, January 10, 2022

🙏MORAL TEACHINGS THROUGH PUPPETRY😃

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Puppets are humans in effigy, which is disturbing enough in itself. But this little blonde girl is beyond creepy - she looks like someone I ...
Sunday, January 2, 2022

True things: a comment, maybe to myself

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This somehow ended up as a comment on a YouTube video, but it poured out with such force that I thought I would place it here and not just l...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

🌹🤍BETTY WHITE: We're going to miss you so!🤍🌹

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From Golden Girls to Sue Ann Nivens to dozens and maybe even hundreds of appearances elsewhere - including a sitcom she starred in before I ...
Monday, December 27, 2021

💥The Troll Doll Channel: 😲OW-EE! Crash-landing for Twirling Troll💥

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SMASH!!                            

Don't Crush Oobleck Too Hard

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Or else.
Friday, December 24, 2021

MERRY CHRISTMAS from the DOMINO CATS!

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This is one of the most incredible videos I have ever seen! I cannot imagine how long it took to set up, or if they needed different takes. ...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

💗MY VERY LAST pandemic hair update: blessings in adversity💗

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I swear, this is my LAST. Even with the new variant. 

😾CHRISTMAS AMBUSH! 😲 Kitty LUNGES at me from under the tree!😾

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A Christmas classic, taken several years ago. Bentley still slips under the tree and hides, or even tries to climb it. Last night he got his...
Friday, December 17, 2021

🎅SANTA CAT?!😳 BIZARRE '50s Christmas Puppet Show😽

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Children's programming hit a peak of surrealism in the early 1950s, when puppet shows abounded. These look like marionettes, with great ...

🎅STRANGE AND SURREAL SANTAS🎅

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Would it be Christmas without bizarre Santas? Not MY kind of Christmas.
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

🎅😽CAT goes COMPLETELY NUTS UNDER CHRISTMAS TREE!😽🎅

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This is one of my favorite cat videos of all time. A seasonal favorite. My cat has never done this, but he''s known to go a bit wack...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Capybara enters its spa bucket

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I love capybaras! What's not to love about a 200-pound rodent who squeaks and squeals like a giant guinea pig? Their eyes and nostrils a...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Invisible, like the wind: the divine feminine in Bob Dylan's Mother of Muses

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  Mother of Muses Mother of Muses, sing for me Sing of the mountains and the deep dark sea Sing of the lakes and the nymphs of the fores...
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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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