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CIPC #102: Grand master rabbit

Posted on January 15, 2019

I’m not really sure were this cartoon comes from. It can easily be found on YouTube or Dailymotion, but none of the about five bazillion…

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CIPC #101: Boyz II Men, Motownphilly

Posted on January 8, 2019

In the beginning of the nineties, things were changing fast in the popular music scene. Hair metal and soft rock were going out of style…

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CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2018

Posted on January 1, 2019

Another year, another fiftyish posts, another sample set of qualities of blog posts, approximately normally distributed around a far too low mean. Since it is…

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CIPC #100: Vacanze di natale ’91

Posted on December 25, 2018

As the number of blog posts you’ve written increases, the speed at which you encounter nice, round numbers unfortunately decreases, so you have to savour…

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CIPC #99: The supersizers eat… the fifties

Posted on December 18, 2018

I have a rare psychological condition were I have an immediate antipathy against almost anything with punctuation in the title.1 Some things – like periods,…

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CIPC #98: Guido Metsers, Prins Maurits

Posted on December 11, 2018

IJzendijke – who can honestly claim to ever have heard of the name? A small Zealandian townlet, little more than a hamlet, tucked away near…

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CIPC #97: Madonna, Ray of light

Posted on December 4, 2018January 19, 2019

Now this is something you’ve probably heard of. In the eighties and nineties, Madonna was perhaps the biggest superstar in all of pop music. In…

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CIPC #96: Masha and the bear S2 E2, Time to ride my pony

Posted on November 27, 2018

Usually, I am somehow familiar with the things I talk about. Most of the movies I talk about I have seen. Most of the comics…

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CIPC #95: La Bayadère

Posted on November 20, 2018

I am really treading on unfamiliar grounds with this one, so bear with me. La Bayadère (the temple dancer) is a ballet with music by…

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CIPC #94: Toen was geluk heel gewoon S5 E67, Schaken

Posted on November 13, 2018

Toen was geluk heel gewoon (back then, happiness was normal) was a Dutch sitcom that ran for sixteen seasons between 1994 and 2009. It was…

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