The Glass Character
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Every Hallmark Christmas Movie. . .

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  OH YES.
Monday, December 19, 2022

🌹BRIDAL TRANSFORMATIONS: The Magic of Camay!🌹

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There's something magical about Camay soap! It instantly transforms you into a Camay Bride. This sounds alarmingly like some polygamous ...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Harry and Meghan: get me the sick bag!

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MEGHAN MCCAIN: Kiss America goodbye, Harry and Meghan, you've finally lost us: We're covering our eyes, plugging our ears and scre...
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Friday, December 9, 2022

PLEASE STAND BY!

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I am having numerous problems with this blog, having somehow lost touch with Google and having to sign in every time I even look at the home...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

😻WRAP your CAT for CHRISTMAS!😻

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An all-time YouTube classic, from back in the days when YouTube was all about sharing the fun. This cat must enjoy the sensation of being sw...
Monday, December 5, 2022

"SMILE, PLEASE!" (Harold Lloyd has a mouse in his pants!)

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Harold Lloyd could do a lot with a little (one of the definitions of genius), and completely charm an audience in the space of one minute. H...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

MUSICAL COFFEE POT! Classic Ad for Maxwell House

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This is one of those GENIUS ads for Maxwell House coffee. Along with the "cup and a half of flavor", this one was unforgettable, w...
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...
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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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