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CIPC #466: Wu-Tang Clan, Da mystery of chessboxin’

Posted on February 25, 2026March 3, 2026

Opposites attract. It is for that reason, I guess, that kung fu movies became so very popular among black Americans. It is also for that…

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CIPC #465: Monster high S2 E3, Fear-a-mid power

Posted on February 18, 2026February 18, 2026

Children are famously stupid and easily influenced. It is therefore paramount for toy manufacturers to get efficient commercial in front of their eyes. However, advertisement…

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CIPC #464: Wolf Hall S1 E3, Anna Regina

Posted on February 10, 2026February 10, 2026

Wolf Hall is a romanticised biography of Thomas Cromwell. As such, it is necessarily set at the English court in renaissance times. And that, in…

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CIPC #463: Funeral in Berlin

Posted on February 4, 2026February 4, 2026

West Berlin was bizarre. An enclave, right in the capital city, governed by, if not the official enemy of the state, then at least their…

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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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