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CIPC #98: Guido Metsers, Prins Maurits

Posted on December 11, 2018

IJzendijke – who can honestly claim to ever have heard of the name? A small Zealandian townlet, little more than a hamlet, tucked away near…

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CIPC #97: Madonna, Ray of light

Posted on December 4, 2018January 19, 2019

Now this is something you’ve probably heard of. In the eighties and nineties, Madonna was perhaps the biggest superstar in all of pop music. In…

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CIPC #96: Masha and the bear S2 E2, Time to ride my pony

Posted on November 27, 2018

Usually, I am somehow familiar with the things I talk about. Most of the movies I talk about I have seen. Most of the comics…

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CIPC #95: La Bayadère

Posted on November 20, 2018

I am really treading on unfamiliar grounds with this one, so bear with me. La Bayadère (the temple dancer) is a ballet with music by…

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CIPC #94: Toen was geluk heel gewoon S5 E67, Schaken

Posted on November 13, 2018

Toen was geluk heel gewoon (back then, happiness was normal) was a Dutch sitcom that ran for sixteen seasons between 1994 and 2009. It was…

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CIPC #93: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett

Posted on November 6, 2018

Today, we travel all the way back to 1924. The roaring twenties! It’s the time of the Weimar republic, Jazz is becoming big, Joyce’s Ulysses…

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CIPC #92: Barque advertisement

Posted on October 30, 2018

Pretty much every time I talk about chess in advertisement, I point out that chess is used to symbolise intelligence and sophistication, but it has…

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CIPC #91: Basil, the great mouse detective

Posted on October 23, 2018October 24, 2018

When people talk about great Disney movies, they usually mention Fantasia, Toy story, The lion king – but no one ever mentions Basil, the great…

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CIPC #90: Zorro S2 E8, The flag of truce

Posted on October 16, 2018

What, oh what, did people do before the internet? Or, generally, before the rise of the computer? Hell, before cheap pocket editions of all the…

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CIPC #89: Vittel commercial

Posted on October 9, 2018October 7, 2018

Can I go on a little rant for a moment? Well, this is my blog, so I most definitely can! So here I go: modern…

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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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