The Glass Character
Thursday, December 1, 2022

JOKERMAN

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  Jokerman Standing on the water, casting your bread While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing Distant ships sailing into th...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Soldier of Fortune: The Ballad of Paladin

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Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam? One of the coolest things about Have Gun Will Travel is the end theme, sung by someone named Johnny Wes...
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"Get down on your knees and BEG!" Paladin lays it on the line

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Have Gun Will Travel was not only the coolest Western of the 1960s, but one of the coolest TV shows of all time. The rugged and enigmatic R...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

"Don't flush that fish!" Man catches 67-pound goldfish

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Fisherman catches 67-pound goldfish Taylor Nicioli, CNN • Updated 23rd November 2022 Angler Andy Hackett lands one of the world's bigges...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Songs of the Pogo: ALL the words!

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  When we originally bought this album in 1951, it came with a very classy-looking  Songs of the Pogo  hardcover book with all the music (wr...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

MY BIG FAT BROWN DUCK: Duckies and Wigeons and Coots, OH MY!

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I don't know how I would have survived the long, dark, dry portage of the pandemic without my birds. Of course they're not "my...
Friday, November 25, 2022

⏲MAN ON THE CLOCK: HAROLD LLOYD vs METROPOLIS

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I have wanted to do a comparison of these two for a long time now. Was there a link? Probably not, unless Fritz Lang liked to copy things fr...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

🌈The Troll Doll Channel: RAINBOW TOWERS!

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Does it ever end? No, it does not. The troll collection frightens me a little bit, when I see how it has grown organically from just a few t...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

WAIT - This is a joke, right?

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  MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Wait — this is a joke, right? DUI defendant Kerry Kennedy gets scandal-engulfed Alec Baldwin to give hypocritical beta-r...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Bing Sings "Beautiful Girl" and "Temptation"

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The immortal Bing Crosby. Though I never thought much of his voice, he was 70-something years old when I first heard him, and was relying on...
Monday, November 21, 2022

DOLL from HELL: Santa Preemie on eBay

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Margaret Mousa Baby Doll 2005 20 inch Item Information Condition:  Used   “nice” Price: US $175.00 ApproximatelyC $234.2 This item will be s...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Under Skim Milk Wood: Dullyn Thomas's Maudlin Masterpiece

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Blogger's note . It never ceases to amaze me with what reverence people approach the work of Dylan Thomas. You can't even throw one ...
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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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