Monthly Archives: September 2012

So last night the latest edition of Wine Selector magazine hit the doorstep of Stately Prick Manor. On the cover: Anthony Bourdain, the self-styled hard-living, heavy-drinking, smokes-like-a-chimney bad boy of food. Like any good cook Bourdain loves his food and … Continue reading →

So there’s been a bit of talk on the Twitters about Sydney’s current crop of restaurant critics, their profile, and whether or not it is possible to, as a well-known identity, deliver a reliable review of a restaurant after just … Continue reading →

Regular readers of this site will recall Mr and Mrs Prick’s less-than-satisfactory meal at Crown Street Assembly, made all the more shambolic by the very large presence of Sydney Morning Herald restaurant critic Terry Durack. Durack’s review of the evening … Continue reading →

…don’t make Prick With a Fork’s veal chop and langoustine surf-and-turf:

This morning was one of those glorious early-spring mornings in Sydney when the air is clean and just a little crisp and the entire day sits brightly before you ready for the taking. Mrs Prick and I, being sans Little … Continue reading →

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is being cyber-bullied. Surely a Facebook page dedicated to throwing rocks at an elected premier’s head is at least as offensive as being mean to a C-list ‘sleb on Twitter?  

Good art sheds light on the human condition. Great art shows that the human condition never really changes. It’s why Sophocles’ dramas, when they’re still taught and performed, still make sense to audiences thousands of years later, and why in … Continue reading →

The emerging Baptists-and-bootleggers coalition of Nicola Roxon on one side and a bunch of ‘slebs, thugby leaguers and their publicists on the other is depressing enough, even more so as it is being publicly backed by the Daily Telegraph, an … Continue reading →

One of the odder media moves in recent months has been News Ltd’s poaching of former Fairfax up-talker Jessica Irvine, whose Kath & Kim economics (“look at MOI!”) are such an exercise in the obvious and banal (she recently discovered … Continue reading →