Sic transit gloria mundi! There is no better way to summarise the fate of the Asterix series. It started all the way back in 1959…
CIPC #202: The manhole
2020 has become the year of video games. People have been at home rather more than usual and, naturally, they spend it playing Fortnite, Among…
CIPC #201: De strateeg ad
Our subject for today is a podcast. Well, not quite. It’s some kind of ad that, at the time of writing, appears as the official…
CIPC #200: S. S. Van Dine, Le fou des échecs
This is the third year now that I do this blog. I have touched on movies, television series, paintings, comics, literature, sculptures – pretty much…
CIPC #199: Alice in Wonderland
If you were to ask some random schmuck from the streets to give an example of chess in popular culture, provided you do this at…