Writing a children’s book must be easy. The story is short and simple. You don’t need to come up with creative metaphors or beautiful sentences,…
CIPC #447: Heartworm
What could a throwback survival horror game with the title Heartworm possibly be about? The obvious answer is that the parasitic worm of that name…
CIPC #446: Ghosts S1 E2, Gorilla war
You know what? I like this show.1 It’s a pleasant, light-hearted British sitcom which has the considerable benefit over most sitcoms that it is actually…
CIPC #445: Kid-E-Cats S1 E43, Chess mates
Sometimes I wonder whether I’ve not been doing this for too long now. It’s gotten to the point where I write about an obscure Russian…
CIPC #444: Fideel de fluwelen ridder No.175
My younger reader may not realise it, but, in the olden days, news streams had to put all the news items in writing, have them…
CIPC #443: Book cover galore II
Long time ago, when the world was still young and this blog was in its early childhood, I wrote a post in which I trained…
CIPC #442: Leave it to Beaver S6 E8, Bachelor at large
Leave it to Beaver is perhaps the stereotypical sixties sitcom. The main characters form a typical middle-class family with two kids, mom as a housewife,…
CIPC #441: Monk S7 E2, Mr. Monk and the genius
Oh yes, it’s that time again: we’re talking about a long-running television series featuring an extremely smart but ill-socialised middle-aged man in the main role.…
CIPC #440: The handmaid’s tale S6 E6, Surprise
When talking about famous dystopian literature, the first two names mentioned are inevitable 1984 and Brave new world. But Margaret Atwood’s The handmaid’s tale may…
CIPC #439: Johnson, The winner
It’s very rare that I write about paintings on this blog. But it’s far rarer even that I write about a sculpture. In fact, I’ve…