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CIPC #218: Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius

Posted on April 20, 2021January 3, 2022

Sad news for the lovers of early music: we’re not talking about the iconic German music theorist and composer from around 1700. Instead, we are…

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CIPC #217: Agatha Christie’s Poirot S9 E2, Sad cypress

Posted on April 13, 2021

Long, long time ago, when this blog was still in its infancy, Agatha Christie’s Poirot was a recurring guest. It’s been more than two years…

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CIPC #216: Suske en Wiske – korte verhalen – schaken

Posted on April 7, 2021January 3, 2022

Everybody in Flanders know Suske en Wiske. There are well over three hundred issues in the comic book series, there have been a couple of…

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CIPC #215: The tempest

Posted on March 31, 2021

Shakespeare — a name to conjure with! Yes, the immortal bard is finally appearing on my blog. That he was going to appear was pretty…

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CIPC #214: Dracula A. D. 1972

Posted on March 24, 2021January 3, 2022

There are very few stories that have been adapted to the big screen as often as Bram Stoker’s late nineteenth century gothic horror novel Dracula.…

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CIPC #213: System of a Down, Lonely day

Posted on March 17, 2021January 3, 2022

You know what’s been a long time? A music video blog post! So let’s have a look at today’s subject. System of a Down1 is…

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CIPC #212: Cheerleaders in the chess club, Season 1

Posted on March 10, 2021January 3, 2022

“Relatively recently, there was a series in which a chess club played a very important role” is how I was planning to start this blog…

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CIPC #211: 8×8: A chess sonata in 8 movements

Posted on March 3, 2021

We have encountered Marcel Duchamp before on this blog, seated on a roof somewhere in Paris, playing chess with Man Ray. Today, we are dealing…

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CIPC #210: Futurama S3 E14, Time keeps on slippin’

Posted on February 23, 2021

A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about The Simpsons. It still remains, and will probably remain forever, one of the most…

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CIPC #209: Monsters S2 E2, Portrait of the Artist

Posted on February 16, 2021

If I had been a little smarter, I would have done this episode in the Halloween season, but I’m not so I haven’t. So yeah,…

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