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CIPC #285: Fishbone, Party at ground zero

Posted on August 9, 2022August 9, 2022

Long, long time ago, when music videos were a new thing, almost anybody could get some airplay. Even a rock band with a short, random…

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CIPC #284: Calvin and Hobbes 10-09-1989

Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022

What’s the best newspaper comic of all time? Many will say it’s The peanuts. Some people might prefer Dilbert, or The wizard of Id. Maybe…

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CIPC #283: The black shield of Falworth

Posted on July 26, 2022July 26, 2022

Which genres of movies are popular varies widely over time. Nowadays, the big thing are superhero movies, which didn’t really exist fifty years ago. On…

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CIPC #282: Bombay dry gin ad

Posted on July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

Oh look, another ad for an alcoholic beverage with a chess theme.1 Just another Wednesday. Okay, let’s get this over with then. Gin is a…

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CIPC #281: Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4

Posted on July 13, 2022July 13, 2022

Sometimes,people ask me why I haven’t spotlighted the Harry Potter movie yet.1 After all, it is one of the most famous movie scenes in recent…

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CIPC #280: The rebel set

Posted on July 5, 2022July 5, 2022

It’s been several months time since we last talked about a movie. So let’s do something about that. Our subject today, The rebel set, is…

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CIPC #279: Metropolitan Life Insurance ad

Posted on June 29, 2022June 29, 2022

It started all the way back in 1923 and, since then, Time after Time has come out.1 It is probably the most well-known weekly magazine…

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CIPC #278: Mission: Impossible S5 E21, A ghost story

Posted on June 21, 2022

You are probably aware of Mission: Impossible, if only for the theme song or the Tom Cruise movies.1 It started as a tv series back…

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CIPC #277: Mystery Science Theater 3000 S6 E3, The dead talk back

Posted on June 15, 2022August 11, 2022

Yes, I know, it’s just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote about Mystery Science Theater 3000, but no, that’s not a reason to…

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CIPC #276: Jonathan Creek S2E2, Time waits for Norman

Posted on June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

Once more, this blog is visited by Alan Davies. Last time, he was a corrupt quiz game host who got caught up in a murder.…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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