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CIPC #161: Jay Richard Kennedy, Schach dem Vorsitzenden

Posted on March 10, 2020

Perhaps you have heard of a 1969 movie called The chairman? Maybe under its alternative title The most dangerous man in the world? It was…

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CIPC #160: Jonny Quest E.19, Attack of the tree people

Posted on March 3, 2020

By a bit of an accident, I recently stumbled upon the existence of a franchise with three different TV-series, two made-for-TV movies, a series of…

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CIPC #159: Simpsons comics presents Bart Simpson Vol.56, Sore loser

Posted on February 25, 2020

Apparently, there are Simpsons comics. I never knew this, but it is one of those little-known but entirely unremarkable facts about our world, like the…

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CIPC #158: Mysterium

Posted on February 18, 2020

More than one hundred posts ago, I talked about dixit, a popular card game featuring a bunch of highly surrealistic but beautifully drawn cards, on…

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CIPC #157: Tales of tomorrow S1 E2, Blunder

Posted on February 11, 2020

Tales of tomorrow is a sci-fi anthology show that aired in the beginning of the fifties in the USA. It doesn’t seem to be very…

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CIPC #156: Pretty woman

Posted on February 4, 2020

Pretty woman, a 1990 film starring Richard Gere as Edward Lewis and Julia Roberts as Vivian Ward, must be the epitome of the romantic comedy.…

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CIPC #155: Hanes advertisement

Posted on January 28, 2020August 2, 2020

If you thought we already plumbed the depths of human society last week, here’s a treat for you! Not only do we once again visit…

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CIPC #154: 2016 Kia Optima commercial

Posted on January 21, 2020

After one whole blog post about high culture, we descend once more into the dank morass of the worst type of popular culture: commercials. Our…

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CIPC #153: Kilburne, A game of chess

Posted on January 14, 2020

Let’s get this new year started for real! Now with some shitty pop music, like last year, not with an obscure publicity photo, like 2018,…

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CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2019

Posted on January 7, 2020January 8, 2020

And thus, a third year of weekly blog posts has finally drawn to an end. It is therefore time for my yearly look back, collecting…

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