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Author: Con Chapman

I'm a Boston-area writer, author of The Year of the Gerbil, a history of the 1978 Red Sox-Yankees pennant race, and 50 books of humor including "Scooter & Skipper Blow Things Up!" by HumorOutcasts Press. My work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor and The Boston Globe among print outlets. "Rabbit's Blues," my biography of Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington's long-time alto sax player, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019, and was named Book of the Year by Hot Club de France. My young adult novel, "Kimiko Chou, Girl Samurai," was published by Atmosphere Press in 2021.

At the Business Forms & Labels Hall of Fame

February 20, 2026 Con Chapman

A recently-deceased Boston-area man was a member of the Business Forms, Labels & Systems Hall of Fame.                                                                        The Boston Herald “He created the ubiquitous pink ‘While you were out’ telephone message form.”   This […]

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Rivalry Isn’t Friendly for Paper Clip, Staple Makers

February 19, 2026 Con Chapman

BOSTON.  As conventioneers emerged from the Bayside Hotel here yesterday morning after weekend-long trade association gatherings, there was more than the usual jostling for cabs at curbside caused by an urge to return home.  “It was […]

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Forced to Shop: One POWs Tragic Story

February 18, 2026 Con Chapman

Tourists were reportedly forced to shop in Hong Kong.  Yahoo! News It had been six months since my buddy Spike and I were captured and imprisoned in Harbour City, a massive maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp on Canton Road, Tsim Sha […]

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On the Prowl With the Lunch Money Enforcers

February 17, 2026 Con Chapman

Wealthy suburb Wellesley, Mass. has hired constables to collect unpaid lunch money.                                                             The Boston Globe “Don’t do it–the chocolate milk is three cents extra.”   Me and my buddy Rocco was crusin’ the streets […]

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The True Meaning of Presidents Day: Great Deals on New and Used Cars

February 16, 2026 Con Chapman

When I was a boy my mother instilled in me a love of American history.  George Washington was the Father of Our Country, she told me.  Abraham Lincoln was the Great Emancipator.  Ulysses S. Grant […]

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Valentine’s Gifts for the Totally Clueless

February 14, 2026February 14, 2026 Con Chapman

Surveys show that men will give women more than 36 million boxes of chocolate and 189 million roses on Valentine’s Day, making lemmings look like hip, Bohemian non-conformists. Remarkably similar-looking non-conformists. How do you make […]

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Blockchain Finds Fans Among Victims of Scanty Valentine’s Nightgowns

February 13, 2026 Con Chapman

BOSTON.  Lissette Neilen was busy handling a rush of last-minute male shoppers at La Boudoir, a nightgown and lingerie shop in this city’s tony Quincy Market shopping area yesterday, but she knows things will be […]

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Police Warn Lonely Men Freedonian Bride Site Not a Scam

February 12, 2026 Con Chapman

BEMIDJI, Minn.  Sergeant Jim Campy has aged out of active duty patrolling the streets of this town of approximately 15,000 in northern Minnesota, but he says the carnage he sees as a “desk” jockey working […]

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For Comic Sans-o-Phobes, Type of Narrator is a Dealbreaker

February 11, 2026 Con Chapman

WATERTOWN, Mass.  Brick-and-mortar bookstores, long predicted to be on their deathbeds due to the growing market power of on-line sellers, are on life support these days due to an unexpected shot-in-the-arm from an unlikely vaccine: audio […]

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The Annual Sock Round-Up

February 10, 2026 Con Chapman

We was headed north, where people needed socks year-round, and I was trail boss of the sorriest bunch of sock wranglers I’d ever laid eyes on. “Hey you,” I yelled at the one everyone knew […]

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