Author Archives: chiefprick

Pizza in this town is a bit like sushi: There’s a lot of crap around and you have to know where to look to find the good stuff. Odd, because Sydney has pretty sizeable populations of both Italians and Japanese, … Continue reading →

The joy of returning safely back to Sydney after a weekend on the NSW Central Coast without having a run-in with a single rat-tailed local was tempered when, pulling into the Norton Plaza centre in Leichhardt to pick up a … Continue reading →

The Prick has always liked the Little Creatures range of beers, but that emotion is quickly turning to love. Via The Punch: “In what looked like escalating into a Grocon Mark II dispute, unionists blockaded the Little Creatures brewery in … Continue reading →

We’re not sure if this is such a great idea. More probably, it just seemed like a great idea at the time:   Image shamelessly stolen from the Prick’s talented Brooklyn-based brother, who comments, “Guaranteed someone is going to go … Continue reading →

It seems fairly amazing that as we close out 2012 it has become necessary to defend, of all things, plates. Yet here we are. The Prick is sure he is not the only one to have noticed, but dishes – … Continue reading →

It’s here! Volume One of Philip Howard’s The Square cookbook is finally here! And even if the Prick’s excitement is tempered by knowing it would have arrived a lot sooner if he hadn’t farted around on whether to even buy … Continue reading →

The tempest over Pete Wells’ review of Guy Fieri’s Times Square continues unabated. Via commenter Dr Duck, the Prick notes Mary Elizabeth Williams’ take over at Salon. She’s got it right, and it may be time to admit that the … Continue reading →

No link available yet – and anyway, you guys are the sort of classy AB1-demographic types who still go out and pay folding money for quality reading material – but if you pick up the latest edition of the Spectator … Continue reading →

If the past is a different country (they do things differently there) then the same thing could be said about couples, or “partnerships”, to use the unsentimental argot of 21st century Australia. Each pairing-off is a little nation-state of the … Continue reading →

To hear the Fairfax press (and plenty of other Western media outlets) tell it, Palestinian rocket strikes on Israeli suburbs are just legitimate, routine affairs – really, nothing more than just a slightly extreme way for a local government to … Continue reading →