Simenon is, by an enormous margin, the best-sold Belgian author — and he is very well sold indeed. According to Wikipedia, he has sold between…
CIPC #472: Vloors: Het schaakspel
You have to be quite a bit of a painting connoisseur to have ever heard of Emile Vloors. He was an Antwerp artist, born 1871…
CIPC #471: Bern gegen Rassismus ad
Technically speaking, I haven’t yet filleted any public service announcements on this blog. But they are really just advertisement under another name, so I’m not…
CIPC #470: Tatort E281, Stahlwalzer
When I previously wrote about a Tatort episode, I quietly passed over the fact that that was episode one thousand three hundred and two of…
CIPC #469: Ascenseur pour l’échafaud
Our topic for today is a French movie from 1958. The plot goes like this: a man murders his boss, but he gets stuck in…
CIPC #468: Coupling S4 E3, Bed time
Coupling is mostly known from quantum theory, where it means that a change in states of one of the coupled systems will instantaneously produce in…
CIPC #467: The adventures of Tintin S2 E6, Tintin in Tibet
Tintin is perhaps Belgium’s most successful export product,1 so it’s not surprising that I feature him on my blog when he plays chess. And yet,…
CIPC #466: Wu-Tang Clan, Da mystery of chessboxin’
Opposites attract. It is for that reason, I guess, that kung fu movies became so very popular among black Americans. It is also for that…
CIPC #465: Monster high S2 E3, Fear-a-mid power
Children are famously stupid and easily influenced. It is therefore paramount for toy manufacturers to get efficient commercial in front of their eyes. However, advertisement…
CIPC #464: Wolf Hall S1 E3, Anna Regina
Wolf Hall is a romanticised biography of Thomas Cromwell. As such, it is necessarily set at the English court in renaissance times. And that, in…