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Month: December 2024

CIPC #406: Ilja Ilf & Jevgeni Petrov, De twaalf stoelen

Posted on December 31, 2024December 31, 2024

On the few occasions that I’ve talked about a book, I solely discussed the merits of the author. Today, I will consider it as a…

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CIPC #405: Holiday in handcuffs

Posted on December 24, 2024December 30, 2024

Last week’s movie about the sadistic serial killer was kind of fun, but this one is really disturbing. When in Copycat someone goes around gleefully…

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CIPC #404: Copycat

Posted on December 17, 2024December 17, 2024

There is an old aphorism that claims reality is weirder than fiction but, like most aphorisms, it is mostly bullshit. Take, for example, our subject…

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CIPC #403: Harvester

Posted on December 10, 2024December 10, 2024

It’s been a long time since we talked about a video game, and it’s been a really long time since we talked about one of…

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CIPC #402: Weetabix ad

Posted on December 4, 2024December 4, 2024

Weetabix is a brand of breakfast cereal. In the space of all things, there is perhaps nothing farther removed from chess than breakfast cereals. So…

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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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