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Month: February 2023

CIPC #312: The beast must die

Posted on February 28, 2023

 #This movie is a bit weird. The writers seem to have had an idea for a movie, but no plausible way to set it up.…

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CIPC #311: Tales from the darkside: The movie

Posted on February 21, 2023February 21, 2023

Way, way back, in medieval times, framing devices were all the rage: there was Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, One thousand and one nights, the Heptaméron by…

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CIPC #310: Mercedes-Benz ad

Posted on February 14, 2023

In 2008, South-Africa was already bracing itself for the big event that would briefly add the word vuvuzela to the world’s vocabulary: the 2010 FIFA…

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CIPC #309: Taggart S20 E2, The wages of sin

Posted on February 7, 2023February 7, 2023

When you made a new friend, it is only natural that you want to spend a lot of time with as soon as possible. Barely…

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CIPC #308: The mouse on the moon

Posted on February 1, 2023

Maybe one day Disney will take over SpaceX and we will really get The Mouse on the moon. For now, however, it is just a…

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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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