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Month: January 2019

CIPC #104: The Strokes, You only live once

Posted on January 29, 2019January 30, 2019

This is perhaps the hardest one I have ever talked about. But it’s not my fault! No, the culprit is Julian Casablancas,1 or whoever came…

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CIPC #103: Bertina Henrichs, Die Schachspielerin

Posted on January 22, 2019

The long-time readers of this blog might remember how, quite a while ago, I made a few blog posts about my impressions while watching movies…

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CIPC #102: Grand master rabbit

Posted on January 15, 2019

I’m not really sure were this cartoon comes from. It can easily be found on YouTube or Dailymotion, but none of the about five bazillion…

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CIPC #101: Boyz II Men, Motownphilly

Posted on January 8, 2019

In the beginning of the nineties, things were changing fast in the popular music scene. Hair metal and soft rock were going out of style…

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CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2018

Posted on January 1, 2019

Another year, another fiftyish posts, another sample set of qualities of blog posts, approximately normally distributed around a far too low mean. Since it is…

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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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