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CIPC #196: Defenders of the Earth E5, Bits ‘n’ chips

Posted on November 10, 2020

Defenders of the Earth is an animated television series, starring three superheroes from American comics: Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the magician. Together, the…

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CIPC #195: Cores advertisement

Posted on November 3, 2020

Never before have I been so quick! Our subject for today — and today is November 3rd, 2020 — is an advertisement scanned from the…

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CIPC #194: NHL commercial

Posted on October 27, 2020

The truth is harsh, but it’s the truth nonetheless: chess isn’t very popular. If we take Belgium as an admittedly particularly bad example, we find…

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CIPC #193: The black room

Posted on October 20, 2020

After amusing ourselves with some light-weight television series and some comedies, we now turn to more serious matters once again. The serious matter at hand…

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CIPC #192: Austin Powers: The spy who shagged me

Posted on October 13, 2020

We’ve had Tintin already on this blog, we’ve had Hercule Poirot, we’ve had Lucky Luke, we’ve had Devereaux. It’s time knock another famous fictional Belgian…

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CIPC #191: The odd couple S2 E9, Chess nuts

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

When I first watched Fawlty Towers I wasn’t precisely blown away, but the more sitcoms I watch the more I appreciate it. Take for example…

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CIPC #190: Kentucky Tavern ad

Posted on September 29, 2020

No interesting introduction this time. The New Yorker of February 2nd 1946 contains an advertisement for the Kentucky Tavern brand bourbon. It features a chess…

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CIPC #189: Bill & Ted’s excellent adventure

Posted on September 22, 2020

For a brief period of time a the very end of the eighties and in the beginning of the nineties, Bill & Ted were big.…

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CIPC #188: The rifleman S4 E7, The knight errant

Posted on September 16, 2020

Television may be a relatively recent phenomenon, but the ‘relatively’ in that sentence is becoming more pertinent with every passing year. Already, there are more…

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CIPC #187: Thoroughbreds

Posted on September 9, 2020

Let’s continue this strange trend of recent movies appearing on this blog. Today’s victim is Thoroughbreds, a 2017 film starring Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy.…

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