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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.

Settling the Grigori Perelman Family Feud

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 Con Chapman

Mathematics genius Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman has refused over a million dollars in prizes for his work and has moved back home to live with his mother and sister.                                                                          The Boston Globe I’ve come to […]

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Outrage as Professor Calls Freedonian Studies “Bogus Claptrap”

March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 Con Chapman

CAZENOVIA, N.Y. Curtis Bascomb is head of information technology at The Chronicle of Ethnic Studies, but he says he’ll be looking for a new job following a weekend when he was on call 24/7. “They don’t pay […]

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Your Travel-Packing Advisor

March 19, 2023 Con Chapman

Wondering if the busybodies at the TSA will let you bring bottle rockets on board an airplane?  Concerned that your “support” Komodo dragon won’t fit in the overhead compartment?  Ask Your Travel-Packing Advisor, he knows […]

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Fake Your Way With Biz Cliches

March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 Con Chapman

If you want to get ahead in business, it is not enough to be intelligent, hard-working, and decisive.  The Great Plains of Commerce are littered with the corpses of men and women who possess these […]

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Voodoo Makes Inroads in Stressed-Out Suburbs

March 16, 2023 Con Chapman

WELLESLEY FALLS, Mass.  Marci Scribner looks like a typical housewife in this affluent suburb of Boston as she climbs into her forest green Range Rover, Kate Spade handbag in hand.  “I’m always on the go,” she […]

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Me and “Curvy” Barbie

March 15, 2023 Con Chapman

Mattel has introduced a fuller-figured “curvy” Barbie to counter criticism of her unrealistically thin shape.                The New York Times It was a typical Sunday afternoon for me, browsing […]

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The Gertrude Stein Look-Alike Contest

March 14, 2023March 14, 2023 Con Chapman

We’re getting up in years, we few forthright men who revealed to each other that we wanted to write back in our youth.  It takes a lot for a guy to open himself up that […]

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Study Shows 9 Out of 7 Americans Lack Basic Math Skills

March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 Con Chapman

WASHINGTON, D.C.  A new report issued today by the American Society of Arithmetic Instructors reveals that innumeracy–mathematical illiteracy–has remained stubbornly resistant to efforts to improve Americans’ math skills. “Copying from each other isn’t going to help–you’re both […]

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“La Yoga Nostra” Grows as Mob Muscles In

March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 Con Chapman

SOMERVILLE, Mass.  This densely-populated suburb of Boston is known now as a student ghetto, but not long ago it was notorious as the headquarters for one of the most powerful organized crime rings in the Northeast.  “The […]

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Ask the Worldly Traveler

March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Con Chapman

Wondering whether your carry-on item will fit in the overhead compartment?  Concerned that the stewardess won’t reach your row with a complimentary bag of peanuts before the plane lands?  Ask the Worldly Traveler–she’s been everywhere! […]

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