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Month: January 2018

CIPC #53: Highland queen advertisement

Posted on January 30, 2018February 4, 2018

“The good old days.” What rot! Rarely has such a huge amount of bullshit been concentrated in one sentence.  In the old days, people died…

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CIPC #52: From Russia with love

Posted on January 23, 2018January 28, 2018

You know what? No. I’m fed up with it. Week after week I look at the infantile doodlings of some guy who has never seen…

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CIPC #51: Lucky Luke Vol.35, Jesse James

Posted on January 16, 2018January 28, 2018

Who’s the greatest cowboy in popular culture? John Wayne, maybe? Clint Eastwood? Jonah Hex? If you ask me, the correct answer is Lucky Luke. Introduced…

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CIPC #50: Rocky III publicity shot

Posted on January 10, 2018January 10, 2018

From all the sports in the world, boxing is the most mystifying to me. I just cannot picture any decent person answering the question ‘what…

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CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2017

Posted on January 2, 2018

A bit less than one year ago, January 11 2017 to be precise, the first post appeared on this blog. Since then, there have been…

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Chess in popular culture

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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