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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

CIPC #107: The big bang theory, S5 E18: The werewolf transformation

Posted on February 19, 2019

If you’ve been living under a rock for half your life, you are probably an invertebrate. Also, you might not know about The big bang…

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CIPC #106: Ao no ekusoshisuto, Chapter 15

Posted on February 12, 2019

Today I’m absolutely in terra incognita, but sooner or later it had to happen. In this day and age, one cannot be a critic of…

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CIPC #105: The bone collector

Posted on February 6, 2019

The bone collector. With a title like that, who can blame me that I was expecting a thrilling tale of ruthless rivalry, fierce competition, and…

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CIPC #104: The Strokes, You only live once

Posted on January 29, 2019January 30, 2019

This is perhaps the hardest one I have ever talked about. But it’s not my fault! No, the culprit is Julian Casablancas,1 or whoever came…

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CIPC #103: Bertina Henrichs, Die Schachspielerin

Posted on January 22, 2019

The long-time readers of this blog might remember how, quite a while ago, I made a few blog posts about my impressions while watching movies…

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CIPC #102: Grand master rabbit

Posted on January 15, 2019

I’m not really sure were this cartoon comes from. It can easily be found on YouTube or Dailymotion, but none of the about five bazillion…

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CIPC #101: Boyz II Men, Motownphilly

Posted on January 8, 2019

In the beginning of the nineties, things were changing fast in the popular music scene. Hair metal and soft rock were going out of style…

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CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2018

Posted on January 1, 2019

Another year, another fiftyish posts, another sample set of qualities of blog posts, approximately normally distributed around a far too low mean. Since it is…

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CIPC #100: Vacanze di natale ’91

Posted on December 25, 2018

As the number of blog posts you’ve written increases, the speed at which you encounter nice, round numbers unfortunately decreases, so you have to savour…

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CIPC #99: The supersizers eat… the fifties

Posted on December 18, 2018

I have a rare psychological condition were I have an immediate antipathy against almost anything with punctuation in the title.1 Some things – like periods,…

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