The Glass Character
Saturday, March 22, 2025

Tuxedo Cat vs. LEGO Tuxedo Cat

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A classic! Bentley once thrashed a battery-powered cat that looked a little bit more like a real cat because it had synthetic fur on it,  bu...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Space Cats — Magic Fly

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I was happy to re-stumble on this while stumbling around trying to find something else. It's a very good example of Early Cat (a genre w...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Ernie Kovacs: 1812 Overture

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  This came up today, out of nowhere, during a  kind of dire day when I discovered I can't put weight on my right leg. The knee keeps ca...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Sheer magic on a Friday afternoon

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Not the greatest day, as suddenly I am walking with a cane (having wiped out on the stairs and pulled a muscle in my leg). But there's t...
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Thursday, March 13, 2025

You think ads are terrible now. . .

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  Every once in a while I have to remind myself that "things" were NOT "better" in the old days. Intrusive ads are hardl...
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FLY GIRLS! Amazing Aerial Stunts in 1930s Movie

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I suppose I have to get back to this blog some time, especially since, to my surprise, I'm still getting comments on some of my past stu...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

THE COMPLEAT BEATLES (I haven't seen this in years!)

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This documentary went underground for a very long time. Then there were just pieces of it floating around on YouTube, with Part 3 and Part 7...
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Thursday, February 20, 2025

GLORY BE! Incredible display of Canada geese on Blakeburn Lagoon

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This is the first video I've posted on my channel since HALLOWEEN. Some sort of a record. I just did it on impulse, and so it would NOT ...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Bogey and Bette and uphill days

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  Bogey and Bette. Like faithful friends, they just keep coming around.  I spent a Jesusly long time, weeks, practically fastened to a chair...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

This song helped me through the worst experience of my life.

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Black rider, black rider, you've been living too hard Been up all night, have to stay on your guard The path that you're walking, to...

Leon Theremin playing his own instrument

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Thoughts for the day!  I promise (sort of) that I will get back to posting when I can. The surgery was utterly brutal and went so wrong, a 2...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Happy new year crunch (and why I'm in the crunch right now)

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Well, so. I guess I'm OK, but in less than a week I have to have major surgery, and it has thrown me just a teeny tiny bit. Talk about h...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Animated Bob Dylan (Disney's got nothin' on him!)

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I remember stumbling across this oddity years ago, and have just rediscovered it. It's an animated version of an interview he did at age...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Gut feelings (a sort of postscript)

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  And as a sort of postscript to my non-review of the Dylan biopic, yes, I've been struggling, and no, no one is listening, just like th...

"A Complete Unknown"? But I've known him all my life! (Why I won't be watching the Bob Dylan biopic)

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I don't plan on seeing the too-much-hyped Bob Dylan biopic, not because I don't appreciate Dylan, but because I do - he has been my ...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

Thump on the Bible, and proclaim a creed!

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I live on a street named after a Saint Women in the churches wear powder and paint Where the Jews and the Catholics and the Muslims all ...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

So is this my last Christmas?

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         Not to be too gloomy during this festive time of year, but on January 7 I go under the knife, or the laparoscope, or whatever it is...
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Friday, December 20, 2024

The two talking cats (YouTube classic from 2008!)

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This one has more than 109 MILLION views. Still a classic.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Darkness at the break of noon (a meditation)

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Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The hand made blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon ...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Every Hallmark Christmas Movie

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It's the SAME THING EVERY YEAR!
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Music Box Lullaby

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It's a Treat instead of a Treatment! SMOKE OLD GOLD!

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  This bit of blood-chilling Madison Avenue propaganda exhorts us to "keep smoking!" Old Gold is "a treat instead of a treatm...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Brush with Greatness: Bob Dylan signs his autograph!

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  A brush with greatness! I am sure this impromptu autograph was pre-planned, but that's OK. Since Dylan barely gives any interviews, th...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Praise God. . .and text me some money.

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                                                     @الن-ت 10 hours ago Oh people, we are your sisters, by God  We do not even find a loaf...
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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Happy 21st Birthday to Caitlin!❤ 🧡❤🧡

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  These are images I created (my first experience with photoshop) for Caitlin's 10th birthday. She already seemed pretty grown-up to me ...
Monday, October 28, 2024

It's Chop-a-nose Day (again!)

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  This was one of those accidental finds. For some reason a line from a nursery rhyme popped into my head - no, wait, it was something I rea...
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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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