You know what? No. I’m fed up with it. Week after week I look at the infantile doodlings of some guy who has never seen…
CIPC #51: Lucky Luke Vol.35, Jesse James
Who’s the greatest cowboy in popular culture? John Wayne, maybe? Clint Eastwood? Jonah Hex? If you ask me, the correct answer is Lucky Luke. Introduced…
CIPC #50: Rocky III publicity shot
From all the sports in the world, boxing is the most mystifying to me. I just cannot picture any decent person answering the question ‘what…
CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2017
A bit less than one year ago, January 11 2017 to be precise, the first post appeared on this blog. Since then, there have been…
CIPC #49: L’Islam – c’est aussi notre histoire
At the time of writing there is an ongoing exhibition in Brussels about the history of Islam in Europe. For the official poster, the organisers…
CIPC #48: Geri’s game
After last week’s post, I was kind of struggling with writer’s block. I mean, how do you follow up on accidentally composing a chess problem?…
CIPC #47: Bennett, Cat and window
It’s a strange but undeniable fact that most people do not read websites about Belgian chess history, nor are they interested in blog posts complaining…
CIPC #46: Independence day
Last week we talked about Red Bull, this week we’re tackling its cinematic counterpart: Roland Emmerich’s 1996 movie Independence day – which revived the disaster…
CIPC #45: Red Bull advertisement
While we’re on the topic of advertisement for drinks featuring chess, let’s talk about Red Bull. It is a relatively new drink, launched in Austria…
CIPC #44: Smirnoff advertisement
Sometimes I have serious difficulty starting one of these posts. For example, what could I possibly tell about Smirnoff that not everybody knows already? The…