Author Archives: chiefprick

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 →

Without giving the impression that this site is obsessed with Sydney Morning Herald restaurant critic Terry Durack, one suspects the man was so annoyed at having been forced by his editors to leave his usual Potts Point-Crown Street comfort zone … Continue reading →

Well, well, well, what have we here? That’s right, an honest-to-God black truffle, sourced from somewhere in NSW and provided to the Pricks courtesy of very generous commenter and friend of the site Dr Duck, just proving that Prick With … Continue reading →

Granted, it’s not mining rare earth minerals at gunpoint in the Congo for two bucks a day, but sometimes a Prick reckons there must be an easier way to make a buck. Today’s task: briefing and entertaining a delegation of … Continue reading →

Is organic food healthier, safer, better? Turns out, not so much: [Stanford University scientists] concluded that fruits and vegetables labeled organic were, on average, no more nutritious than their conventional counterparts, which tend to be far less expensive. Nor were … Continue reading →

So Mark Best’s Crown Street “fine diner” Marque has once again retained its coveted “three hat” status. Mrs Prick and I had an anniversary dinner there a few years ago (it was the traditional “pay a fortune to be treated … Continue reading →