Author Archives: Mike Lesiuk

Jared Harris: You know, the guy? From Mad Men?

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: August 19, 2010
Two things blew my mind today. Up until this morning I basically knew Jared Harris as that guy who plays Lane Pryce on AMC’s Mad Men, and as that guy who played that villain on Fringe during season one. I didn’t even know Harris’ name; I just recognized the face and knew that I liked [...]
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The laziest movie pitch

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: August 1, 2010
Alright, so picture this: a kid gets his face eaten and then there’s a big investigation. And… uh, well that’s it.
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Confessions of a Sleazy English Professor

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: June 15, 2010
I’ve had tenure for awhile now, but I’ve only recently found the courage to teach graphic novels. And by “graphic novels” I mean a couple old issues of Amazing Spider-Man where Spider-Man fights the Hulk, and then they team up. One time I told a student that I would give him a letter of reference, but [...]
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Bright Star by Jane Campion

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: May 2, 2010
“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in the lake is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do no work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothens and emboldens the soul to [...]
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Serious Chocolate Chip Cookies with Walnuts

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: March 30, 2010
This is a recipe for chocolate chip cookies, I guess, but it’s a really fancy recipe and takes a lot of time to do. You have to brown a bunch of butter, and toast a bunch of walnuts, and refrigerate the dough, and blah blah blah. But it’s all worth it, though, because these cookies could [...]
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Banana Bread with Streusel Topping

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: March 10, 2010
The recipe is an amalgamation of two recipes. The banana bread recipe comes from here at Recipe Zaar. It uses sour cream. I already had another banana bread recipe, but I wanted to try something new. I adapted the recipe a bit to include chocolate chips. And because there were a lot of nuts in [...]
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Don’t change your printer’s toner when it tells you to

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: February 18, 2010
Two months ago my printer (an HP-2170W Laser Printer) told me it refused to print anymore pages. It told me I was out of toner and I had to replace the cartridge. But it was lying to me - there was plenty of toner left. In fact, since that time, I have printed hundreds and hundreds [...]
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Soft and Chewy Oreo Cookie Cookies

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: February 6, 2010
A long time ago I came across this Chocolate Chip Oreo Cookie Recipe at Two Peas and Their Pod. The recipe was good, but it was mostly a chocolate chip cookie with a few chunks of Oreos in each cookie (which, indeed, is a perfectly fine idea for a cookie). But I wanted an entire [...]
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Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies (thin and buttery)

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: January 25, 2010
It took me a surprisingly long time to find an oatmeal cookie recipe that I wanted to try (like, 10 minutes on Google). I just wanted plain, thin, and buttery oatmeal cookies. I finally adapted a Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies recipe from All Recipes, and in the end it worked pretty well. I ended up [...]
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Simple Blondies

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: January 20, 2010
I mentioned in my Simple Brownies post that I was more of a blondie man than a brownie man. Thus, a blondie recipe. This blondie recipe is simple and pretty much impossible to screw up. I don’t really try other blondie recipes (much), because this is all you need. It’s from Smitten Kitchen’s blondies. If you [...]
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