The greatest rivalries of history and literature – the Montagues and the Capulets, the Hatfields and the McCoys, Barça and Real- pale in comparison to…
CIPC #136: Gode Geass S1 E1, The day a new demon was born
Lelouch. Lamperouge. That’s seriously the name of the protagonist in this anime. No, really, you can look it up: he is actually called ‘the fishy…
CIPC #135: The Sims 2
Do I really have to write an introduction for The Sims? I probably do, don’t I? Fine. Here it goes: The Sims is a video…
CIPC #134: Mari Govori, Pososi ty
If you were alive in the spring and summer of 2017 – and I suspect this is not an uncommon occurrence in my readership –…
CIPC #133: Das schwarze Schaf
Who is the greatest detective from British fiction? Is it Sherlock Holmes? Perhaps Hercule Poirot or Mrs. Marple? Is it brother Cadfael? Do the famous…
CIPC #132: The prisoner, Checkmate
I have written about The prisoner before; if you don’t know what it is, you should probably read the first few sentences of that post.…
CIPC #131: Die Csárdásfürstin
Emmerich Kálmán is perhaps not the most well-known name in Western history, but in the small world of the operetta, it is often mentioned together…
CIPC #130: Breaking bad S3 E6, Sunset
About a decade ago, Breaking bad was the hottest thing on television. It was a television series about a chemistry teacher diagnosed with cancer who…
CIPC #129: Roxette, It must have been love
I have always thought it rather strange that there is so much Swedish pop music. In classical music, the Swedish presence is basically nil, but…
CIPC #128: Keds advertisement
Keds is a brand of sneakers. As in, footwear. But you wouldn’t be able to tell from their advertisement. Case in point: the image below,…