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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

CIPC #360: Doom asylum

Posted on February 6, 2024February 6, 2024

Doom asylum is one of those dime-a-dozen eighties horror comedies. The concept of the movie is that someone gets into a car accident, is wrongfully…

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CIPC #359: Macintosh 1984 keynote speech

Posted on January 31, 2024January 31, 2024

This year, it is precisely forty years ago that the first Macintosh computers were released on an unsuspecting world. With a full one hundred and…

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CIPC #358: De Rode Ridder Vol.14, De galmende kinkhoorns

Posted on January 24, 2024January 24, 2024

Looking back on last year’s posts, you see American shows, British shows, singers from France or the Netherlands, commercials from all corners of the Earth…

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CIPC #357: Washington Post Christmas search 2023

Posted on January 17, 2024

Just half a month ago, ’twas the season to be jolly. But now ’tis the season to acrimoniously — and sanctimoniously — bemoan the varied…

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CIPC #356: Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) E8, Whoever heard of a ghost dying?

Posted on January 10, 2024January 10, 2024

A new year, a new British detective series. Well, new isn’t exactly the right word, seeing that it aired in 1969. It features, as title…

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CIPC Extra: The best and worst of 2023

Posted on January 3, 2024January 3, 2024

Compiling the usual end-of-year list has been harder than usual this time. I’ve been more consistent, it seems. That means that this year’s bests are…

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CIPC #355: Univis ad

Posted on December 27, 2023December 27, 2023

Glasses! Glasses are brilliant. They’re one of humanity’s greatest victories over nature. Instead of stumbling around in an eternal blur, millions of people can now…

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CIPC #354: Slaughterhouse rulez

Posted on December 19, 2023December 19, 2023

The British have always reserved a rather prominent place in their fiction for boarding schools. From Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby all the way to Rowling’s Harry…

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CIPC #353: Existential comics No.467

Posted on December 13, 2023December 29, 2023

A long, long time ago, we discussed an issue of Existential comics in which Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were seen playing a game…

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CIPC #352: Union Investment ad

Posted on December 6, 2023December 6, 2023

This is going to be a rather boring post, I’m afraid. You see, when the people at Union Investment decided to make a chess themed…

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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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