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CIPC #224: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes S1 E6, The speckled band

Posted on June 1, 2021

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…

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CIPC #223: Taylor, Women playing chess

Posted on May 25, 2021January 3, 2022

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…

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CIPC #222: Inspector Morse S8 E8, The remorseful day

Posted on May 19, 2021

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…

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CIPC #221: The office, S5 E26

Posted on May 11, 2021

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.…

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CIPC #220: Cyma ad

Posted on May 5, 2021January 3, 2022

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…

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CIPC #219: The Da Vinci code

Posted on April 28, 2021January 3, 2022

Here’s an interesting observation about pop culture in 2021: there hasn’t been a book craze in quite a while. Some twenty years ago, there was…

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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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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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