The Glass Character
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Bone Music: "I can see clearly now"

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In Soviet Russia, Forbidden Music Was Smuggled on X-Ray Records  Music may transcend borders but, in an oppressive place like Soviet Russia,...
Monday, February 14, 2022

💖VICTORIAN VALENTINES: "My Heart's Gift"💖

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💗🧡💛HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!💚💙💜
Sunday, February 13, 2022

THE BIRDS: they're stinking up Harry and Meghan's mansion!

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's £11m Montecito mansion is engulfed by foul smell that 'is like offal rotting in the sun' caused...

RETROFUTURISM: one of my favorite things

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I love how people in the past predicted the future. The future that is now OUR past. For some reason, this almost always involved cooking an...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Giant Tortoises at Full Speed

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"EVERYBODY!!!!"
Sunday, February 6, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee: send her victorious!

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Since I write so many negative things about "those other royals" (or EX-royals, though they continue to cling to the tatters of th...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

Dear Prince Harry (a message from The Universe)

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  You're better OUT, Harry. NOW.
Friday, February 4, 2022

The world according to Prince Harry! The Duke of Sussex's tips for achieving 'mental fitness'

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  The world according to Prince Harry! The Duke of Sussex's tips for achieving 'mental fitness' (from the Daily Mail) AIM FOR TH...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

🤍SLAVIC TONGUES: Russian guys talking backwards🤍

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Obscure excerpt from an even more obscure linguistic study of "Slavic" language sounds. I left out the sound track and the horribl...
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...
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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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