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, January 30, 2007

A Chicken In Every Pot

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I had to laugh this morning when I caught sight of a campaign poster in the hallway for one of the guys running for president of the MSU (Mc...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Meme - Gotta Have My Sauce

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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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Thursday, January 25, 2007

HNT - Prelude To A New Terror

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I was sitting around and remembering around this same time last year was the time that my epic HNT battle with Darth Tater began. I was ver...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

But You Can't Silence Them

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You can screw them out of their jobs at a Toronto radio station, but you can't silence the hilarity of Humble & Fred. That's ri...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

And It Came

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I always admire the advertising and promotional efforts of local businesses, particularly through the use of road-side signs. Since they...
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Monday, January 22, 2007

The Zander Burger

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Harvey's has this series of radio and television ads in which they're touting the fact that you can customize your burger YOUR WAY ...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Da Count - Chad

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The other night when Alexander and I were putting out the garbage and then spreading salt on the slick and icy spots on our driveway my neig...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

HNT - Fragility

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Last week HNT was suspended as many reflected on the loss of a friend ( I was tempted to say virtual friend, because so many friends who me...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The Worst Laid Plans

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Fran and Alex and I haven't seen my Mom (she lives about a 6 hour drive away from us) in several months, what with all the stuff that...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Freezing Rain Keeps Falling On My Head

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We finally started to get winter-like conditions the past 24-48 hours. In fact, the freezing rain was so bad yesterday morning that they ca...
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Monday, January 15, 2007

Big Boy Bed

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Yesterday we converted Alexander's crib into a youth bed. What this means is you basically take off the front section and sliding gate ...
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Friday, January 12, 2007

Indigo Master Data Team

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Da Count I was looking through some photos on my hard-drive the other day and came across this one. It was taking during a Master Data team...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

HNT - Suspended This Week

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HNT was suspended this week due to some devastating news. Betchacantguesswho (AKA Betcha and pictured on the left) a fellow blogger and avid...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

A Canadian Werewolf on the Back Burner

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I'm so proud of myself. It's not that I made a New Year's resolution or anything, but I have remained relatively committed to m...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

One Book One City - Hamilton

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When I was at the library yesterday with Alexander I'd noticed that they announced the newest title in the "One Book One City"...
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Saturday, January 06, 2007

Operation Fix Moosie

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Alexander really enjoys playing with the "greeter" we have that he calls Moosie. ( Anything resembling a moose, of course, gets c...
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Friday, January 05, 2007

BookCrossing

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I was reminded in a recent podcast of The Writing Show about the wonderful act of BookCrossing ( the practice of leaving a book in a publi...
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Thursday, January 04, 2007

HNT - On Moosie, On Boo!

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Yeah, I know, Christmas is over. But, much like Halloween, we have trouble taking down the decorations. I think we'll wait until after...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

An All You Can Contract Buffett of Illness

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This past Christmas season I celebrated two unique new experiences. The first was that it was the first Christmas season in 14 years where ...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

HNT - Best of 2006

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The theme for this week's HNT post is supposed to be my favourite HNT picture from the past 12 months. Despite the fact that I had a gr...
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