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CIPC #434: Jethro Tull, The zealot gene

Posted on July 15, 2025

Did you know Jethro Tull is still around? Yes, the rock band with the flute that brought a decomposed version version of the BourrĂ©e from…

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CIPC #433: Larsson, Schackspelet

Posted on July 8, 2025July 3, 2025

Every once in a while, I like to give this blog a temporary and unconvincing sheen of refinement by spotlighting a painting. Since the current…

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CIPC #432: “Hukkunud alpinisti” hotell

Posted on July 1, 2025July 2, 2025

Today, we’re dealing with an Estonian film, of all things. It’s based on a novel by the Strugatsky brothers of the same name, which apparently…

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CIPC #431: Todd Rundgren, Change myself

Posted on June 24, 2025June 24, 2025

Todd Rundgren is not really a household name. In the US he scored one top ten hit in 1973, with a couple of other minor…

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CIPC #430: Incomplete

Posted on June 17, 2025June 17, 2025

My faithful readers know that I can stomach very, very bad movies. But where I may laugh at terrible thrillers or cringe at crappy comedies,…

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CIPC #429: Harrison Bergeron

Posted on June 10, 2025June 17, 2025

Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron is, without a doubt, one of the most well-known science fiction stories ever. It is not surprising, then, that it was…

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CIPC #428: Target

Posted on June 4, 2025

The two main roles in this movie — and they are the only roles, really — are played by Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon, good…

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CIPC #427: Stained glass window

Posted on May 27, 2025May 27, 2025

This has never happened before and it’s never going to happen again: I’m talking about a stained glass window. Yes, an honest-to-God medieval stained glass…

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CIPC #426: Chocky’s children E3

Posted on May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

I’ve talked a great deal about British television series on this blog, but they were almost exclusively detective series. We have not featured any of…

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CIPC #425: Asylum

Posted on May 14, 2025May 14, 2025

Continuing our theme of unsettlingly recent subjects, we’re going to talk about a point-and-click horror adventure game released in March 2025 after spending well over…

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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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