Author Archives: chiefprick

Over at Crikey!, Gideon Haigh gives the Prick a shout-out: Yet Australian journalists have been mainly bystanders to the growth and maturation of the blogosphere, which for all its occasional incivility and self-indulgence also reveals remarkable depths of knowledge, from … Continue reading →

Back in 1953, Isaiah Berlin tossed off a little essay called “The Hedgehog and the Fox”. Riffing on a fragment of poetry by the 7th century BC Greek Archilochus (“the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big … Continue reading →

Yeah, so regulars around here will note that we’ve overhauled the appearance of the site, changing themes a bit: I wasn’t thrilled with the long slabs of text between posts, and figured something along these lines would let you pick … Continue reading →

So Mr and Mrs Prick returned from points north this evening literally just as the power went out in the Inner-West: Of course, the hippy-dippy Tibetan prayer flag house on the corner was well-equipped with candles that lit the place … Continue reading →

Mr and Mrs Prick are hitting the road for a bit, so posting may be sporadic over the next few days. But what posts there are will be delicious. Also, a word about comments: The Prick is something of a free-speech … Continue reading →

In comments elsewhere in these parts, readers are alerted to a coming bacon crisis likely to afflict the US and Europe far worse than Wayne Swine’s putative bacon tax. So far no mention of the crisis spreading to Australia, but … Continue reading →

And, to be fair, a lot of other critics and food bloggers as well. Colman Andrews nails it here: Now that anyone can paraphrase menus, offer opinions on dishes and reach an audience in the process, I think those of … Continue reading →

A well-travelled mate once told the Prick that the Koreans are the Australians of Asia: they love their beer, they love their barbeque, and they love a joke. All true, but in many ways they’ve got it over us humble … Continue reading →

So it was quite a busy Monday morning at Stately Prick Manor. Mrs Prick put in a 5:30am wake-up call and was out the door not long after, swooping off in a Silver Service towards targets unknown with a big … Continue reading →