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Be careful if you pass my house - Vashti’s got a new favourite place and if looks could kill she’d be serial killer.

Sarsons vinegar - now with spray top. Genius, absolute genius.

Wok To Go – in Birchgrove Llanishen – really is what it says on the tin…or menu rather (so to speak) – ‘A New Generation of Takeaways’

As soon as we strolled in you could tell this wasn’t your average grubby takeaway with the moody staff, expensive food and generic options. The staff at Wok To Go are nice (+ uniformed) and the cooking goes on in front of you behind glass… at a furious pace.

We had Tofu Chow Mein which was vibe central, Mini Veggie Spring Rolls, shredded chicken Cantonese style (UNREAL) and other bits.

Part of the order was the ‘Salt & Pepper Chips’ which were like chips but with bits of peppers and onions in. Bizarre, but nice with the mains.

Slick packaging too by the way (a nice change)

Recommended in a big way.

CV July Podcast mix.mp3

Click the link above to listen. And If you want to keep this MP3…

PC Users: right click on the link and click ‘Save Link As’ and you’ve got it.
MAC Users: Option-click the link above and the MP3 will save to your desktop.

This one features nuggets from Nosaj Thing, Gainsbourg, D Styles, Evils, Shocking Blue and loads of other things which I cant remember.

And here’s the mix from June…

cv podcast mix.mp3

The levels are all over the place so keep the volume knob to hand.

Last week I got an IPhone 3GS 32G.

Apple have had me hooked since my first generation 4GB Ipod Mini in 2004 which now looks like an expired block of pink metal from the past – at the time though it completely blew my mind. I was left gob-open by the ads for the original IPhone last year and declared a while ago that i ‘needed one’ and looked into getting one. Then the 3GS came about, I actually needed a new phone and Steven Fry wrote a love letter about its capabilities in The Guardian last week. That was it…

Like every Apple product that’s crossed my path It was beautiful from the opening of the box – I’ve never known such lovely box design. The phone itself is very user friendly and sleek. I’m still trying to come to terms with having an Ipod on the phone – I’m getting there though. It’s easier to manoeuvre through the applications (apps), which I must say are amazing. The maps and compass are all nice but nobody told me about isaber! – The app which allows you to turn the phone into a fuzzing light saber – genius. Lots of the free apps make things alot easier for the world of blogging too – pictures can go straight from the phone to photobucket and flickr.

My top App so far though has to be ‘Things’ (above) – the task manager which is helping me get stuff done. The days of me scribbling things I need to do on post it notes and loosing them all over the shop are over and you get told when things need doing too. It’s an elegant programme, beautiful design.

Amongst many other things (including a new Tetris game from EA) I also got involved with ipregnancy (why do I do these things?), which is a bizarre filing system for appointments, developing foetus facts, scary pictures and a lucky dip name decider. It’s a bit tacky but it’s fun.

My only qualm with the whole experience so far is the camera which is a bit limited considering how sick the rest of the device is, but I can deal with that. Actually, here’s the tester I did on our new sunflowers…

Looks pretty good actually, but it could use a zoom option.

On the whole, it’s a phenomenal toy to have in your pocket.

(Cheers John for the comic)

For the first time in about a year I went to Buffalo Bar in Windsor Pl Cardiff. Now… what’s happened there?

I used to really dig the food, the menu was fresh and varied. The chips in particular were the bomb - they were ‘proper chips’ like my nan used to make, chipped from potato and fried till golden. Yesterday I ordered chips with my pie (they stock Pieminister now - a very smart move, why aren’t more people stocking these? why aren’t Tesco stocking these?) - a safe option in my eyes and, to be honest, part of the reason I agreed to brave the stilettoed scenesters and go there at all.

I learnt that the chips are no-more, instead being replaced by generic oblong frozen school-dinner style chips you get at bad takeaways. When we asked our waiter what the deal was she mentioned a new chef and a new menu.

And what’s up with the dudes at Buffalo in suits having business meetings over a sandwich and espresso now? I think people have decided it’s ‘where it’s at’ now. Till the chips return it’s not where I’m at.

In heavy rotation in the car, kitchen and on cans (this means headphones – learnt this at ATT100) at work…

From left to right… Free The Robots EP, Busdriver’s new record ‘Jhelli Beam’, Nosaj Thing ‘Drift’, Evils ‘Hello Children Everywhere’, The Chantels Collection, Yacht ‘Summer Song EP’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Got To Be There’ album (This has only come about today for obvious reasons + i’ve been playing it in work in reaction to the MJ cheese radio 2 is playing. I’ve always liked this record)

Does anyone remember the first ever Culture Vulture site? (Above) Sakke in Finland did it for us… + did a sick job too. It’s in need of some TLC in BIG way + steps are being made to redesign this site which has been on the sick for the last month or so. If anyone has any ideas hit me up.

Woah Masta Killa from The Wu is in GO VEG magazine! That’s an immense coup from GV. Nice work.

‘Nick, I am your Uncle…’ **

** = That’s an in-joke.

Robert Jones ‘C’mon, i’ll give you a game’

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