Mark Leslie's Blog

Mark Leslie is a writer, editor and bookseller who lives in Southern Ontario. In 2005, Mark joined the blogging bandwagon and started posting random thoughts and musings on writing, bookselling and being a father.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

The Death Is Over

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I posted the final entry on my serialized blog-form story " I, Death " this morning. It was fun to take an old story I'd writt...
Monday, August 29, 2005

Festival Of Sour Grapes

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This past weekend, the Festival of Fear was taking place in downtown Toronto, yes, just a few blocks away from the buildings that I haunt d...
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Friday, August 26, 2005

My First Time

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Several weeks back, some writer friends of mine started this go-round of talking about their first time. No, not sexual intercourse, but th...
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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Dangerous Pedestrian

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One of the things you can be assured of when I strap myself behind the wheel of an automobile, is that my mindset adjusts to that of "t...
Wednesday, August 24, 2005

The Dogs Christ Loves To Eat

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For the past few months I've noticed something a little peculiar in a mural that's on the side of the building for CHAMPS FOOD SUPPL...
Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Speaking of Bathroom Humour

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Sometimes to keep Alexander "occupied" while I'm changing his diaper, I'll sing some fun songs to him. One of his favourit...
Monday, August 22, 2005

Drip Dry Bums

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A couple of weeks ago, our Mortgage Broker Lissette ( she’s Fran’s cousin, and one damn fine broker -- I couldn’t begin to count the thousa...
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Sunday, August 21, 2005

A Nice Rejection

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I received a nice rejection for my story "Taste of Darkness" on Friday from an anthology I'd submitted a story to several mont...
Friday, August 19, 2005

Attack Of The Clones

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I've been killing myself laughing over the past few months every time my buddy Peter Mitchell shares one of his " adventures with ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Pity The Fool

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The other day I was walking between our Peter Street and King Street offices (I'm doing a lot of that lately, which is good exercise I g...
Monday, August 15, 2005

LiT'll old me - Live

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I received a reminder in the mail from the good folks at Kairos Lit erary Society (actually, I'm one of those good folks, since I becam...

Ice, Ice, Baby

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A recent news report (and email forwarded from a good friend), talks about the resurgence of a great idea that was spun out of the recent te...
Friday, August 12, 2005

Writing Stuff

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I've made a bit of progress on various writing projects lately, starting to get caught up with correspondence with contributors for Nort...
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And Now . . . A "Drew" Moment

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Last night on the GO train, Christina was telling us about some of the many adventures that her husband Drew has during the course of his da...
Thursday, August 11, 2005

Five Days In May

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The other morning on the ride in to work, Blue Rodeo’s “ Five Days In May ” was playing. In that special off-key sort of way that I have, I ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Goodnight Slizz, Wherever You Are

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Last night while rocking Alexander to sleep, I started wondering where my old pal Slizz was now. ( I think I’m going to really miss the mom...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005

I, Writer

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Last night on the GO-Train I got some advance writing done for my experimental " I,Death " online blog-story. I recently entered t...
Monday, August 08, 2005

If I Should Die Before I Wake

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Alexander has, so far, two stuffed animals (a lamb and a bunny), that, when you squeeze their tummies,, utter a "bedtime prayer" -...
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Friday, August 05, 2005

Clicks Ands & Butts

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I was relieved to see my bum yesterday ( no, not my bum, I’m not an owl -- although Fran tells me that my bum is not an unpleasant thing to ...
Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Everybody's Lovin' Your Bum

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I was hoping I’d see a bum yesterday. But I didn’t. And it’s not that I didn’t look hard. Okay, so I see all kinds of great bums each and ev...
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