I have quite some trepidation as I start writing this post, because I will have to judge the pythons!1 Their flying circus is perhaps the…
CIPC #379: Honda Ridgeline ad
We’re finally leaving the Lewis chessmen behind, but we’re not quite back to normal pieces: they’re still human sized. And they figure in a commercial…
CIPC #378: Deadlier than the male
Third time’s the charm! Our subject from two weeks ago featured pieces based on the Lewis chessmen. Our subject from last week featured pieces based…
CIPC #377: Atlas
We’re doing a remarkable recent movie today. The first Netflix movie we feature, I believe! The plot is that Jennifer Lopez is desperately trying to…
CIPC #376: Blonde redhead, Melody
You have probably never heard of Blonde redhead. I, at least, had never heard of Blonde redhead.1 It is apparently an American indie rock band.…
CIPC #375: Righteous kill
It’s been almost half a year since we dealt with a serial killer. For this blog, that’s extraordinary. But today we accompany Robert De Niro…
CIPC #374: Innocent S1 E1
All you people are such sinners you probably don’t even know what Innocent is1, so here’s the rundown: it’s a quite recent British television show…
CIPC #373: Orange is the new black S2 E7, Comic sans
Some ten years ago, the whole internet — and presumably the remaining shreds of culture outside of it — was agog with talk about Orange…
CIPC #372: Håkan Nesser, Het vierde offer
I’ve written three different posts about chess in literature by now, in which several very brief unsuspecting chess scenes from a variety of books are…
CIPC #371: Sinbad and the eye of the tiger
In the summer of 1977, when the first Star Wars was released, it went up against a large sword-and-sorcery franchise that had been established for…