The Glass Character
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Hummingbird Aerial Fight in Slow-mo!

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  An amazing gif of two hummingbirds fighting in SUPER slow-mo. Visit Margaret's Amazon Author Page!
Saturday, October 29, 2022

🌕INCREDIBLE SIGHT: Plane flies by Full Moon WHILE I’M FILMING! 🌛

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This is an incredible shot I accidentally took while trying to film the moon, which was glowing orange due to local forest fires. In the slo...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Dream House: 20 Victoria Avenue

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  Some dreamy images of the house I grew up in, as it looks today. The pale blue is so beautiful (it used to be yellow), and the outside has...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

VICTORIANA: the house I grew up in

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Monday, October 24, 2022

You CAN go home again! 20 Victoria Avenue

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This came out of the blue! But not really, because a few years ago I got an email from someone who had just bought my childhood home on 20 V...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

💗"Boots look nice on pussy cats. . ." (purr, purr)

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Boots look very nice on pussy cats. (purrrrrrrrr) The photo I used for the thumbnail is Bentley's "mug shot", the picture tha...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

CUTE HALLOWEEN FUN WITH OUR FAVORITE "EX" ROYALS

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Yes, and THIS, too!

Exclusive Footage from Meghan Markle’s podcast Episode 3

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OH YEAH.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

🍄"OH, JOY!" STRANGE ad from 1950s

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I made this animation from a VERY strange 1950s print ad for Batchelor's mushroom soup mix. The fact that this couple is so ECSTATIC abo...
Monday, October 17, 2022

😲WHAT?? Two Canada geese mirror each other EXACTLY!

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I love it when nature does these things! We've noticed how "flock-y" Canada geese are - walking in stately single-file, swimmi...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

A Day In The Life (Master Tapes)

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Further to my post of yesterday, here is a really fascinating deconstruction of the final chord of A Day in the Life - perhaps the most mean...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Deconstructing A Day In The Life (Isolated Tracks)

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This song is primal, and without a doubt the Beatles' masterpiece. Every single element of it rings true, and every single element of it...
Friday, October 14, 2022

😽How the Pussycat Learned to SPEAK!

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A song from my favourite childhood record, Puss in Boots. Puppetry by ferociousgumby! When I was just a teeny-weeny kitty, Everyone told me...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Meghan's Mess!

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  I don't like to waste space (except that I do, sometimes) on such an insignificant figure as Meghan Markle. But the worst of her many ...
Sunday, October 9, 2022

The Troll Doll Channel: 💗FALLING IN LOVE💗

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I have discovered a TROVE of 78 rpm recordings from my childhood, all in pristine shape, with nary a pop or a skip. This is one of the real ...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Dream images: black and white, late at night

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A collection of dreamy and somewhat nightmarish images from my files, some disturbing, others confusing, and still others just plain weird. ...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

OSCAR LEVANT: Good-bye, and good night

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  GOOD-NIGHT, OSCAR LEVANT  CANDICE BERGEN  APRIL 1  1973 Notes on an all too brief encounter in Hollywood APRIL 1  1973 CANDICE BERGEN “Goo...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

NASTY SWEARING SQUIRREL disrupts the neighborhood!

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I have never been sure WHY squirrels do this, as it's never obvious what the threat is. I'd say it's territorial, but this isn...
Monday, October 3, 2022

PULCINELLA: Stravinsky, chagrin d'amour, and CLOWNS!🤡

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  Pulcinella is a  ballet  by  Igor Stravinsky  based on an 18th-century play— Pulcinella  is a character originating from  Commedia dell...
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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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