West Berlin was bizarre. An enclave, right in the capital city, governed by, if not the official enemy of the state, then at least their…
CIPC #462: Nero Wolfe E9, Sfida al cioccolato
Sometimes it feels like, every other week, I spotlight a gloriously famous detective I hadn’t heard of before this blog. The newest addition to the…
CIPC #461: Zathura: A space adventure
Ars longa vita brevis, they say, but I think that’s an overestimation. Sure, people are still listening to Bach, reading Dante, and admiring Euclid’s Elements,…
CIPC #460: Star Trek: Strange new worlds S2 E3, Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Can you believe that I’ve been running this blog for so many years without ever covering Star Trek? I should bloody well hope so, because…
CIPC #459: Sleep awake
Blumhouse is a name that’s perhaps familiar to you as a production company specialised in horror movies like Paranormal activity, Insidious, and The purge. But…
CIPC #458: Siemens ad
As the year draws to its end, all its calamities and horrors parade once more before my eyes and I realise it’s been a particularly…
CIPC #457: Globi Vol.31, König der Spassmacher
When I wrote my first blog post about blue Swiss parrot Globi, I had no idea I had stumbled upon a whole stash of material.…
CIPC #456: The thing from another world
When John Campbell published his collection of short stories Who goes there? in 1938 on a grand total of 3000 copies, he would nary have…
CIPC #455: Fiido ad
To me, Fiido sounds like someone has lost his dog and is now calling for it everywhere, 1 hoping against all hope that it will…
CIPC #454: František Chochola, The young king of Easaidh Ruadh
František Chochola is perhaps not a household name, but he was quite an accomplished man. He has the illustrations to countless books to his name,…