CIPC #154: 2016 Kia Optima commercial
After one whole blog post about high culture, we descend once more into the dank morass of the worst type of popular culture: commercials. Our object of study today is...
CIPC #153: Kilburne, A game of chess
Let’s get this new year started for real! Now with some shitty pop music, like last year, not with an obscure publicity photo, like 2018, and certainly not with something...
CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2019
And thus, a third year of weekly blog posts has finally drawn to an end. It is therefore time for my yearly look back, collecting highs and (mainly) lows of...
CIPC #152: Hein Heijnen, Rokade
Rokade is a book written (in Dutch; the title means Castling) by an MD by the name of Hein Heijnen. It appeared in the prehistoric1 year of 2013 by the...
CIPC #151: The spirit of Christmas
‘t is the season to be jolly! To put a tree with more decoration than Idi Amin in a prominent place in the house. To get together with the family...
CIPC #150: Saturday night live 20-01-1996, Spartan cheerleaders
From what I understand, Saturday night live is pretty much a staple of American culture but largely unknown outside of the USA. It is a late-night show consisting mostly of...
CIPC #149: Gravity Falls, S1 E11: Little Dipper
Gravity Falls is a critically acclaimed cartoon show produced by Disney about twelve-year-old twins Mabel and Dipper, who spend the summer holidays with their great-uncle — or gruncle, as they...
CIPC #148: US marines advertisement
The US military has many detractors all over the world, but none could possibly make them look sillier than they did themselves, from what I understand around 1986, in the...
CIPC #146: Wolfen
Wolfen is a supernatural thriller from 1981, mainly known for starring Albert Finney. The plot starts in a very standard fashion: people are being murdered in New York and when...
CIPC #145: Chess book cover galore
It was a long time ago. It was a simpler time then and there was a certain sincerity to the world, born of simplicity more than of innocence. There was...
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