Today, we dissect the greatest of the great, because The great dictator is probably the greatest movie by the greatest silent movie actor: Charles Chaplin.…
CIPC #228: Chess-nuts
Betty Boop is one of the very many things in the world that I just can’t get my head around.1 She is a very old…
CIPC #227: Etsy ad
Etsy is quite famous in America but I think it is far less popular here in Europe, so perhaps a little background information is in…
CIPC #226: The Perry bible fellowship, Primate checkmate
Today, we go visit the digital lagerstätte and dig up one of the dinosaurs of the internet: The Perry bible fellowship. Before Twitter, Facebook, and…
CIPC #225: Crime doctor’s warning
Have you ever heard of the Crime doctor franchise? It is about doctor Ordway, a criminal psychologist who helps the police solve cases. Nowadays, it…
CIPC #224: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes S1 E6, The speckled band
If ever some dimwit decides to feed my blog posts into a machine learning engine and make it produce one of its own, it will…
CIPC #223: Taylor, Women playing chess
It is time to parade some high culture in front of your eyes again while I talk condescendingly about paintings like I can tell undoubted…
CIPC #222: Inspector Morse S8 E8, The remorseful day
In the ranks of British tv detectives, inspector Morse occupies a prominent but slightly strange position. He is not a brilliant eccentric like Poirot or…
CIPC #221: The office, S5 E26
There are certain things the internet loves far more than it should. Not that they’re bad per se, but the internet just obsesses over them.…
CIPC #220: Cyma ad
Ex oriente lux. Also, really weird pop music. In Europe, one mainly hears about k-pop, the Korean pop music which has been taking the world…