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.

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Beautiful Canals

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So on Friday I had a root canal . My second one in four months. I'm quite the little dental chair trooper lately. I know that the word d...
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Friday, April 28, 2006

Name Mangling 101

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I received a comment several weeks ago from someone who wanted to know about Fran’s recipe for roast beast. It made me think of all the fu...
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Thursday, April 27, 2006

HNT - Mark's Last Stand

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Continued From HNT - Darth's Revenge Part II Just as Mark thought he was going to reach the forks and be able to use them against his ar...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Negative Feedback Is A Good Thing Too

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I had a great email conversation yesterday with a talented writer and good friend of mine about a recent direction I took on my serial thril...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Drawn Like Moths We Drift Into The Blogosphere

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Yesterday I was musing about my struggle to find a write/blog balance. In other words, trying to establish a proper mix of writing for my b...
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Monday, April 24, 2006

The Writing Show

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The object of the game is to refer to your 101 Things About Me list, pick one of your "things" and tell the whole sordid tale. I ...
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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Canada Book Day

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Today marks Canada Book Day , which was meant to be a celebration of reading and books. It was derived from from World Book & Copyright ...
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

HNT - Haunted Pictures

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I don't know what to do. I received this chain letter about a guy who had a picture taken, then later when he looked at it he saw this ...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Titanic Two The Surface

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So I was cruising along Lecram Sinun 's blog the other day and found a link to a trailer for TITANIC 2 . At first I thought it was a jok...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Daddy's Big Boy

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It's been a week now since my son has started to fall asleep on his own in the crib. Sigh. My little baby is growing up into Daddy's...
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Monday, April 17, 2006

Spooky-Eyed Girl

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An old friend of mine from my home town ( actually, the youngest sister of the girl who ruled my heart through most of my high school years ...
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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Thrice Tagged By Tish

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I was tagged a couple of weeks ago by Tish -- no, I'm not all that good at playing blog-tag. By the time I do my bit and try to catch...
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Friday, April 14, 2006

A Pretty Good Friday So Far

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Today is a non-work day (Good Friday) but I'm up bright and early. My intent was to do some good old fashioned writing, but I'm endi...
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

HNT - Darth's Revenge Part II

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Continued from HNT - Darth's Revenge Part I The attack of the Darth clones was swift and ruthless, completely catching Mark by surprise....
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Expanding Width on Blogger

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I love blogger, and I love the wonderfully easy to use templates that they provide. But I was a bit tired of the narrow presentation of the ...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Slayed In The Boardroom

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It only came to me after seeing an episode of The Apprentice last night, but what happened to me yesterday morning in a meeting while prese...
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Monday, April 10, 2006

Load Of Crap

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I spent a good part of the weekend working on our income tax. So after two pots of coffee, nine Extra Strength Tylenol, one broken calculato...
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Friday, April 07, 2006

Gratuitous Self-Promo & Gratuitous Sex

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I just published the 40th post on my online serial thriller, "I, Death" which I started on January 18, 2006. It's been a blas...
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Thursday, April 06, 2006

HNT - Crazy Cook

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Since it takes me a while to "create" the special sequences for the "Darth Tater" series, and since I'm up to my eye...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Mystery Guest at the Mystery Hotel

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Blogger Shane Nickerson posted a photo that he'd found years ago at a flea market and was curious about unraveling its secrets. Wil Whe...
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