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CIPC #280: The rebel set

Posted on July 5, 2022July 5, 2022

It’s been several months time since we last talked about a movie. So let’s do something about that. Our subject today, The rebel set, is…

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CIPC #279: Metropolitan Life Insurance ad

Posted on June 29, 2022June 29, 2022

It started all the way back in 1923 and, since then, Time after Time has come out.1 It is probably the most well-known weekly magazine…

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CIPC #278: Mission: Impossible S5 E21, A ghost story

Posted on June 21, 2022

You are probably aware of Mission: Impossible, if only for the theme song or the Tom Cruise movies.1 It started as a tv series back…

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CIPC #277: Mystery Science Theater 3000 S6 E3, The dead talk back

Posted on June 15, 2022August 11, 2022

Yes, I know, it’s just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote about Mystery Science Theater 3000, but no, that’s not a reason to…

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CIPC #276: Jonathan Creek S2E2, Time waits for Norman

Posted on June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

Once more, this blog is visited by Alan Davies. Last time, he was a corrupt quiz game host who got caught up in a murder.…

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CIPC #275: Fritz Leiber, The 64-square madhouse

Posted on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022

The 64-square madhouse, a short story by Fritz Leiber published in 1962 in IF worlds of science fiction. It tells of the first super chess…

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CIPC #274: Mystery Science Theater 3000 S6 E21, The beast of Yucca Flats

Posted on May 25, 2022May 25, 2022

I am quite used to it and hardly notice any more, but Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a really weird show. The premise is that…

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CIPC #273: Murun Buchstansangur, Problems Problems

Posted on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022

I have seen quite a few cartoons for this blog, but never something quite like Murun Buchstansangur. Most cartoons are about kids, anthropomorphised animals, or…

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CIPC #272: Lidl ad

Posted on May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

If you are trying to sell toys in the low countries, a lot of your revenue comes in the weeks before Saint Nicholas’ day. So,…

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CIPC #271: Sable maze: Norwich Caves

Posted on May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

Ah, hidden object games! If you have the licence to slap a popular title on a game but you haven’t got the game to slap…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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