On a break

As you can see, I haven't updated my blog in nearly a year. I keep meaning to start again, but never quite manage it.

I might try again soon. In the mean time I am leaving the blog up. This is for two reasons:

1: Somebody somewhere (probably my parents) may be bored and have nothing better to do than have a look at what I was doing a year or so ago.

2: Leaving it is easier getting rid of it (although, admittedly, writing this post has probably taken longer than removing the 'blog' link on my website).

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Marketing Excellence Awards

Me, Merlin and Chloe (from Leeds College of Art) journeyed down to the big smoke on Wednesday to attend the CIM: Marketing Excellence Awards that our prospectus had been nominated for. None of us had really been to anything like that before, so we were all quite excited – I was especially excited about the 4 course silver service dinner.

Merlin, Chloe and me

I have to say a good time was had by all – free champagne and funny words by Mock The Week's Hugh Dennis definitely went down well. I thought I would have to make polite conversation which smarmy marketing executives, but the people we were sat with all seemed really nice. Wearing a spazzy tuxedo wasn't even as bad as I thought it would be.

Hugh Dennis

However, the food (which, if you were paying attention, was what I was most excited about) was crap. You would think that paying over £200 for a ticket and informing them in advance that you were a vegan would ensure a pretty good meal. It didn't. A few salad leaves for a starter, and no dessert at all (although the waitress seemed convinced the dessert she had brought me was vegan until I asked her if she was sure twice, after which she admitted that she didn't have a clue).

Oh, and in case you're wondering... no, we didn't win. O well, we still had a good evening.

Shut Magazine

Look out for issue 12 of Shut. Why? Because I'm in it, that's why!





It's now part distributed in Don't Panic packs.

Happy Birthday to Me

It was my Birthday on Monday, and Kyle Harvey posted this lovely video of me on LS6.

I don't normally mention BMX on this blog. Not sure why, I just don't. But I'm making an exception for this. Here's me hurting myself and destroying a pair of jeans:

Kyle O Mans Bday from Ls6bmx on Vimeo.

PS. Don't worry, we put the slabby thing at the bottom of the ledge back when we were done...

Second food post today...

I spent about 3 hours today attempting to make vegan ricotta and sun-dried tomato tortellini with vegan pesto.

The ricotta worked a treat (honest)—it was mainly made from tofu with some basil, lemon and nutritional yeast, and is based on a recipe by Isa Moskowitz.

It was my first attempt at making pasta from scratch and it very nearly worked. In fact, I would go as far as saying it did work, except I didn't have one of those pasta manganel things so the past was a bit thick and in places was more like dough balls than pasta.


I am now feeling very satisfied, if a little sick...

Mark Bittman

I found this really interesting TED talk by Mark Bittman about whats wrong with what we eat. Have a watch:



Told you meat was bad...

Chartered Institute of Marketing

The LCA prospectus Merlin and I have done has been shortlisted for a CIM Marketing Excellence Award. That's pretty big time.