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CIPC #77: Samsung advertisement

Posted on July 17, 2018

Samsung is known as one of the biggest and most famous electronics manufacturers in the world, but it is also an adjective used in music…

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CIPC #76: Mickey Maus No.48

Posted on July 10, 2018

One of the biggest names in popular culture I have not mentioned so far is the almighty mouse, the great Mickey himself. Of course, there…

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CIPC #75: Lo squartatore di New York

Posted on July 3, 2018July 4, 2018

Last time, I spotlighted an example of the spaghetti western. This week, I want to show that other famous genre of Italian movie: the giallo.…

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CIPC #74: Botte di natale

Posted on June 26, 2018December 31, 2018

For more than two decades, from 1967 to 1994 to be precise, Terence Hill and Bud Spencer where a mainstay of the spaghetti western genre.…

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CIPC #73: Ronzoni commercial

Posted on June 19, 2018

If you have read some of my other blog posts, you will have noticed that I usually start with a short text providing context for…

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CIPC #72: Maigret S35, Mon ami Maigret

Posted on June 12, 2018June 14, 2018

I have a conjecture: every sufficiently well-known fictional detective will sooner or later be confronted with chess. A slightly – but only very slightly –…

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CIPC #71: Budd, The chess board

Posted on June 5, 2018

It is time to bring some culture to this blog again – and nothing screams culture like some classical painting. Besides, the last time I…

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CIPC #70: Chess board box covers

Posted on May 29, 2018

I found a new bizarre niche of CIPC material to get lost in! You can go online, find some pictures of cheap chess sets and…

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CIPC #69: The hound of the Baskervilles

Posted on May 22, 2018August 5, 2018

Long, long time ago, when I started this blog, I already knew that, inevitably, I would end up talking about Sherlock Holmes. I don’t think…

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CIPC #68: The hateful eight

Posted on May 16, 2018May 20, 2018

Tarantino syndrome is a disease which has been affecting many young movies, often with a great pedigree, for decades now. A textbook case is offered…

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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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