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CIPC #142: Nero Vol.143, De dood van Bompa

Posted on October 22, 2019October 21, 2019

Nero is, or was at least, incredibly famous in Flanders and completely unknown outside of it. It is a comic with a cast of colourful…

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CIPC #141: La Bayadère (bis)

Posted on October 15, 2019

‘Wait!’ I hear you exclaim, ‘La Bayadère? Didn’t you talk about that before?’ I did! In fact, it is the same Makarova adaptation of Petipa’s…

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CIPC #140: Final move

Posted on October 8, 2019October 8, 2019

One thing I haven’t done yet this year, is commenting on a chess-themed movie. More than a hundred blog posts ago, I commented on Lang…

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CIPC #139: Miller advertisement

Posted on October 1, 2019October 1, 2019

The image below can be found easily on the net. It is apparently from an advertisement campaign for Miller beer from, I think, the end…

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CIPC #138: Blackadder II E4, Money

Posted on September 24, 2019September 24, 2019

Blackadder is a serious contender for the title of best TV-series in history. The first season was perhaps not great, but from season two to…

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CIPC #137: Coca cola advertisement

Posted on September 17, 2019September 17, 2019

The greatest rivalries of history and literature – the Montagues and the Capulets, the Hatfields and the McCoys, Barça and Real- pale in comparison to…

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CIPC #136: Gode Geass S1 E1, The day a new demon was born

Posted on September 10, 2019September 11, 2019

Lelouch. Lamperouge. That’s seriously the name of the protagonist in this anime. No, really, you can look it up: he is actually called ‘the fishy…

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CIPC #135: The Sims 2

Posted on September 3, 2019

Do I really have to write an introduction for The Sims? I probably do, don’t I? Fine. Here it goes: The Sims is a video…

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CIPC #134: Mari Govori, Pososi ty

Posted on August 27, 2019August 28, 2019

If you were alive in the spring and summer of 2017 – and I suspect this is not an uncommon occurrence in my readership –…

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CIPC #133: Das schwarze Schaf

Posted on August 20, 2019

Who is the greatest detective from British fiction? Is it Sherlock Holmes? Perhaps Hercule Poirot or Mrs. Marple? Is it brother Cadfael? Do the famous…

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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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