I assume, I guess, I hope, that Dutch artist M. C. Escher needs no introduction. His lithographs and woodcuts have penetrated the farthest corners of…
CIPC #161: Jay Richard Kennedy, Schach dem Vorsitzenden
Perhaps you have heard of a 1969 movie called The chairman? Maybe under its alternative title The most dangerous man in the world? It was…
CIPC #160: Jonny Quest E.19, Attack of the tree people
By a bit of an accident, I recently stumbled upon the existence of a franchise with three different TV-series, two made-for-TV movies, a series of…
CIPC #159: Simpsons comics presents Bart Simpson Vol.56, Sore loser
Apparently, there are Simpsons comics. I never knew this, but it is one of those little-known but entirely unremarkable facts about our world, like the…
CIPC #158: Mysterium
More than one hundred posts ago, I talked about dixit, a popular card game featuring a bunch of highly surrealistic but beautifully drawn cards, on…
CIPC #157: Tales of tomorrow S1 E2, Blunder
Tales of tomorrow is a sci-fi anthology show that aired in the beginning of the fifties in the USA. It doesn’t seem to be very…
CIPC #156: Pretty woman
Pretty woman, a 1990 film starring Richard Gere as Edward Lewis and Julia Roberts as Vivian Ward, must be the epitome of the romantic comedy.…
CIPC #155: Hanes advertisement
If you thought we already plumbed the depths of human society last week, here’s a treat for you! Not only do we once again visit…
CIPC #154: 2016 Kia Optima commercial
After one whole blog post about high culture, we descend once more into the dank morass of the worst type of popular culture: commercials. Our…
CIPC #153: Kilburne, A game of chess
Let’s get this new year started for real! Now with some shitty pop music, like last year, not with an obscure publicity photo, like 2018,…