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Month: June 2024

CIPC #379: Honda Ridgeline ad

Posted on June 25, 2024June 25, 2024

We’re finally leaving the Lewis chessmen behind, but we’re not quite back to normal pieces: they’re still human sized. And they figure in a commercial…

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CIPC #378: Deadlier than the male

Posted on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024

Third time’s the charm! Our subject from two weeks ago featured pieces based on the Lewis chessmen. Our subject from last week featured pieces based…

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CIPC #377: Atlas

Posted on June 12, 2024June 12, 2024

We’re doing a remarkable recent movie today. The first Netflix movie we feature, I believe! The plot is that Jennifer Lopez is desperately trying to…

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CIPC #376: Blonde redhead, Melody

Posted on June 5, 2024June 5, 2024

You have probably never heard of Blonde redhead. I, at least, had never heard of Blonde redhead.1 It is apparently an American indie rock band.…

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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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