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Month: July 2024

CIPC #384: Hot fuzz

Posted on July 30, 2024July 30, 2024

One of the mainstays of this blog are detective movies with often rather perfunctory appearances of chess and today’s subject, Hot fuzz, is no different.…

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CIPC #383: The inspector Alleyn mysteries S2E2, Dead water

Posted on July 23, 2024July 26, 2024

The inspector Alleyn mysteries ran only very briefly, for a mere nine episodes. Yet it now features for the second time on this blog. After…

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CIPC #382: OxyChem ad

Posted on July 16, 2024July 16, 2024

When I first learned about the existence of a company called OxyChem — which happened shortly before this post — I immediately assumed they somehow…

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CIPC #381: An American werewolf in London

Posted on July 9, 2024July 9, 2024

Wikipedia calls this a horror comedy, and that is quite a reasonable description: it consists of some ninety minutes of pretty standard horror movie followed…

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CIPC #380: Monty python’s flying circus S1 E5, Man’s crisis of identity in the latter half of the 20th century

Posted on July 3, 2024

I have quite some trepidation as I start writing this post, because I will have to judge the pythons!1 Their flying circus is perhaps the…

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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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