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Month: July 2019

CIPC #130: Breaking bad S3 E6, Sunset

Posted on July 31, 2019

About a decade ago, Breaking bad was the hottest thing on television. It was a television series about a chemistry teacher diagnosed with cancer who…

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CIPC #129: Roxette, It must have been love

Posted on July 23, 2019

I have always thought it rather strange that there is so much Swedish pop music. In classical music, the Swedish presence is basically nil, but…

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CIPC #128: Keds advertisement

Posted on July 16, 2019

Keds is a brand of sneakers. As in, footwear. But you wouldn’t be able to tell from their advertisement. Case in point: the image below,…

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CIPC #127: Justin Timberlake feat. Jay Z, Suit & Tie

Posted on July 9, 2019

Justin Timberlake started his career all the way back in the early nineties as a member of the boy band NSYNC . In the two…

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CIPC #126: The prisoner, Arrival

Posted on July 2, 2019

The prisoner is a delightful cocktail of sixties futurism and mystery fiction with a liberal dash of the Kafkaesque. It is about a former secret…

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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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