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CIPC #355: Univis ad

Posted on December 27, 2023December 27, 2023

Glasses! Glasses are brilliant. They’re one of humanity’s greatest victories over nature. Instead of stumbling around in an eternal blur, millions of people can now…

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CIPC #354: Slaughterhouse rulez

Posted on December 19, 2023December 19, 2023

The British have always reserved a rather prominent place in their fiction for boarding schools. From Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby all the way to Rowling’s Harry…

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CIPC #353: Existential comics No.467

Posted on December 13, 2023December 29, 2023

A long, long time ago, we discussed an issue of Existential comics in which Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were seen playing a game…

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CIPC #352: Union Investment ad

Posted on December 6, 2023December 6, 2023

This is going to be a rather boring post, I’m afraid. You see, when the people at Union Investment decided to make a chess themed…

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CIPC #351: Faerie tale theatre S3 E4, Thumbelina

Posted on November 28, 2023December 29, 2023

Have we had a fairytale yet? I don’t think we have. Let’s have a fairytale. Our subject comes from an American anthology series of fairytales…

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CIPC #350: Becker S4 E1, Tell me lies

Posted on November 21, 2023December 29, 2023

I’ve never been able to get on with sitcoms. I suspect the reason is that, if you have characters in a normal environment and you…

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CIPC #349: House on the hill

Posted on November 14, 2023December 29, 2023

There is a whole wide world out there of indie horror games. They usually only last a couple of hours and are made on a…

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CIPC #348: Banacek S1 E1, Let’s hear it for a living legend

Posted on November 8, 2023November 13, 2023

During the relatively short history of television, an unfathomable number of detective series have been produced in every language under the sun, in all sorts…

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CIPC #347: Lacuna Coil, I forgive (but I won’t forget your name)

Posted on November 1, 2023December 29, 2023

It’s starting to get to the point that I myself can’t even remember everything I’ve talked about on this blog. When I decided to spotlight…

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CIPC #346: Cox Communications ad

Posted on October 25, 2023October 26, 2023

Cox Communications is a company that, among many other things, sells home security systems, including things like cameras, motion sensors, and of course — as…

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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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