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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.

Me and My Parrot Walk Into a Bar

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 Con Chapman

Lewis Rosensteil, head of Schenley Distillers, once had 5,000 parrots trained to say “Drink Old Quaker” bourbon, then gave them to bartenders. The Wall Street Journal, review of “Empire: The Past and Future of America’s […]

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As College Value Declines, Some Ask if Sixth Grade is Worth It

May 21, 2022May 21, 2022 Con Chapman

COLUMBIA, Missouri. Timmy Salmon has enjoyed his big brother Tom’s four years at the University of Missouri, visiting the Sigma Nu fraternity house on football game days and being fawned over by visiting sorority girls. […]

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Your Maternal Buttinsky Advisor

May 20, 2022 Con Chapman

Have a mom who criticizes your cake-decorating skills?  Wondering why she always praises your brother’s water-skiing and not yours?  Ask Your Maternal Buttinsky Advisor, she’s full of vindictive ideas! Dear Maternal Buttinsky Advisor: I am […]

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Is That Your Cat, or Are We Having Guacamole?

May 19, 2022 Con Chapman

An image that Google correctly categorized as a tabby cat was, with only a few pixels changed, subsequently identified by the same algorithm as guacamole. The Boston Globe We’re heading into summer, which means that […]

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My Dark Horse Run for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Con Chapman

It’s hard out there–to coin a phrase–for a guy who’d like to quit his day job and write.  You look for any advantage you can get.  A few weeks ago I read about a guy […]

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Your Stuffed Animal Advisor

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Con Chapman

Animals are our friends, but pets can also upchuck on our white wall-to-wall carpeting, or tear up a new pair of pumps we just bought last week on sale.  That’s why stuffed animals are often better friends than […]

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How to Talk to Your Cat About Drugs

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 Con Chapman

If you have cats and they’re anything like mine, they’re apolitical. Mine are outdoor cats and get plenty of exercise, so they’re not fat cats. A check of the records at our state Office of […]

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At the Procter & Gamble Bad Hair Day Laboratory

May 13, 2022 Con Chapman

Procter & Gamble has mobilized a team of researchers to determine by scientific methods when a woman will have a bad hair day.                                                       The Wall Street Journal Don’t laugh–it could happen to you. We […]

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As Customers Return to Restaurants, Feedbags Make a Comeback

May 12, 2022 Con Chapman

BROOKLINE, Mass.  It’s been almost a year since Lisa Pepperidge went out to dinner, and the pent-up energy to “put on nice clothes and get out of the kitchen,” as she put it, broke last […]

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One Socially Awkward Turns to “Asperger’s Jazz”

May 10, 2022May 10, 2022 Con Chapman

BEVERLY, Mass. Todd Schrafnel has always had trouble relating to people, a problem his parents chalked up to overexposure to board games as a child. “We’d play Monopoly and Clue and Candyland all weekend long,” […]

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