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…
CIPC #67: Barneby wand decoration
In every big city you can find a games bar nowadays; a place where you can get together to play boardgames with friends1 while having…
CIPC #66: “Weird Al” Yankovic, White & Nerdy
Parody is a tricky genre. When it fails, it tends to fall completely flat, but when it succeeds, ah, then you might just get a…
BOBCH #5: Nielsen vs. O’Kelly de Galway (1954-56)
By now, there are several thousands of games on this site. How is one supposed to find games that are interesting? The answer is that…
CIPC #65: The cinema snob S11 E13, Mighty muffin pounder rangers
Judging the quality of entertainment is an age-old tradition – probably about half an hour younger than entertainment itself – but it, like so many…
CIPC #64: Back to the future part III
This is going to be a huge disappointment. Just imagine: for more than a year, my fans1 have been waiting, silently fearing my blog would…
CIPC #63: The X-files S5 E20, The end
As far as I can ascertain, the X-files is more or less an adaptation of the Fortean times in which every uncanny or weirdly creepy…
CIPC #62: Championship conflict
The history of the world chess championship is filled with scandals. Delicious, delicious scandals. Some of the more famous ones are the yoghurt incident (Karpow…
CIPC #61: The New Yorker Vol.52 No.28
Among literary magazines, the New Yorker takes pride of place, counting authors like Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami, and Vladimir Nabokov under its contributors. On top…
CIPC #60: Kiekeboe Vol.89, De s van pion
Every now and then, some mainstream comic of tv-series features chess in one of its episodes; by now you might already be aware of that.…