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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.

Friday, March 31, 2006

Random Bits & Pieces

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Since I don’t have Tom Cruise’s wads of cash, where am I going to get the money to pay for bodyguards to protect me me from Xenu (or Zoltar...
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Thursday, March 30, 2006

HNT - Darth's Revenge Part I

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At long last, the continuation of the Darth Tater Spud Wars series . . . Continued from HNT - When Darth Comes Knocking . When we last left ...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Distractions

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When I first started writing, which was over 20 years ago, one of the things that I had to struggle with were distractions. Back then, of c...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Why Do That To Yourself?

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We're getting a lot of phone calls lately because we've listed our old microwave in the Hamilton Spectator classifieds. (We recentl...
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Monday, March 27, 2006

More Death Stuff

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Tish 's recent post about my serial thriller I, Death ) has inspired me to get off my butt and actually slap these little "I, Deat...
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Dying To Try This Beer

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Flipping the pages on my " 365 Bottles of Beer For The Year " desk calendar this morning, I discovered yesterday's beer was Re...
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Sunday, March 26, 2006

Galleys

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I received the galleys the other day for my story "Being Needed" which will be appearing in the Your Scrivener Press anthology Bl...
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Friday, March 24, 2006

I'm Just A Geek, Too

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I’ve just added two books to my “must read” list -- and they’re sneaking ahead of the many many books already there, right to the top. Let ...
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Thursday, March 23, 2006

HNT - Anatomy of a Shave

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After having done a poetry reading and then an author appearance I thought it was time to get rid of the van dyke I'd been sporting. Yes...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Book Signing Success

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Samson, my photo-happy buddy on the Pittsburgh trip, shared the photos he had taken last week, including the ones of his meals. You can see ...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Back To Reality

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Yesterday, returning home from work was one of the first normal days I've had in several weeks. Two weeks ago, Fran and Alex were in Su...
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Saturday, March 18, 2006

You Have Entered The Twilight Zone . . .

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. . . beyond this world strange things are known. Sigh. Blogger went kind of haywire these past 24 to 48 hours or so. Really freaky stuff. T...
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Friday, March 17, 2006

Still Miss You, Dad

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Three years ago today my father died when he went into the hospital for a "routine" surgery to have a kidney with a suspicious can...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006

HNT - Unclovered

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So Osbasso spread word on a theme for this week's HNT. Green. Excellent idea, except I'm in Pittsburgh without a camera and had bee...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

You'll Like Yuengling

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Since I missed posting on the 14th, and tomorrow is Half-Nekkid Thursday , I thought I'd continue on with my beer discovery tour of Pitt...
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Rolling On

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So yesterday, we started getting into some fun scripting challenges. Maybe for smart people they weren't all that challenging, but I fou...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

But It's Really About The Beer

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Welcome to another installment of, "Come ON -- tell me the WHOLE story!" AKA "I love to talk about myself", or "Me-...
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Monday, March 13, 2006

Iron City

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My flight into Pittsburgh landed this evening (on an Air Canada Jazz airplane that was a bit smaller than I have been on in quite a while - ...
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Thursday, March 09, 2006

HNT - Annoying Spud Wars "Clip Show"

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Don't you hate when you tune in to your favourite sitcom and, instead of a new episode all that you get is one of those silly clip shows...
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight

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I borrowed the title to this post from a track on the “ Invisible Touch ” album by Genesis -- of course, my buddies and I called that album ...
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