Here’s an interesting observation about pop culture in 2021: there hasn’t been a book craze in quite a while. Some twenty years ago, there was…
CIPC #218: Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius
Sad news for the lovers of early music: we’re not talking about the iconic German music theorist and composer from around 1700. Instead, we are…
CIPC #217: Agatha Christie’s Poirot S9 E2, Sad cypress
Long, long time ago, when this blog was still in its infancy, Agatha Christie’s Poirot was a recurring guest. It’s been more than two years…
CIPC #216: Suske en Wiske – korte verhalen – schaken
Everybody in Flanders know Suske en Wiske. There are well over three hundred issues in the comic book series, there have been a couple of…
CIPC #215: The tempest
Shakespeare — a name to conjure with! Yes, the immortal bard is finally appearing on my blog. That he was going to appear was pretty…
CIPC #214: Dracula A. D. 1972
There are very few stories that have been adapted to the big screen as often as Bram Stoker’s late nineteenth century gothic horror novel Dracula.…
CIPC #213: System of a Down, Lonely day
You know what’s been a long time? A music video blog post! So let’s have a look at today’s subject. System of a Down1 is…
CIPC #212: Cheerleaders in the chess club, Season 1
“Relatively recently, there was a series in which a chess club played a very important role” is how I was planning to start this blog…
CIPC #211: 8×8: A chess sonata in 8 movements
We have encountered Marcel Duchamp before on this blog, seated on a roof somewhere in Paris, playing chess with Man Ray. Today, we are dealing…
CIPC #210: Futurama S3 E14, Time keeps on slippin’
A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about The Simpsons. It still remains, and will probably remain forever, one of the most…