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Month: July 2023

CIPC #333: Prime suspect S2 E1, Operation Nadine

Posted on July 26, 2023July 26, 2023

Even in the nineties, women and men were still treated very differently. A case in point: when we meet inspector Barnaby from Midsomer Murders or…

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CIPC #332: Rupa ad

Posted on July 19, 2023

It’s been a while since we talked about a talk show, but I don’t like doing so, so let’s not. Instead, let’s talk about underwear.…

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CIPC #331: Portishead, Sour times

Posted on July 11, 2023July 7, 2023

I usually avoid them, but it’s time for a highly personal confession: I am a sucker for clever use of enjambment. So when I heard,…

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CIPC #330: Syberia

Posted on July 4, 2023July 4, 2023

No, I did not just misspell Siberia. Syberia is the actual name of a point-and-click video game released in 2002. It was written by Belgian…

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Chess in popular culture

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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