My Artsy-Fartsy Robot Pal
An Art Degree Could Give You a Leg Up on the Robots Submishmash, linking to article on Quartz “Thanks, but I’m actually dating Julio. And Evan.” We were sitting in Life Drawing 101 when I […]
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.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Photosynthesis
Minimalist/realist short-story writer Raymond Carver was fired from his job as an editor of science textbooks because of his inappropriate writing style. Wikipedia Photosynthesis is an important process. I mean it’s extremely important. It’s the […]
A Day in the Life of a Public Access TV Cop
As I drained the dregs of coffee from my Styrofoam cup, I stared out the window at the non-descript parking lot below and let my mind wander. Let’s see, only 801 days until retirement, not that […]
Father Kniest, Jazz Priest
I’m getting too old for this, I thought as I made my way down Boylston Street, my tambourine in one hand, the Good Book in the other. I started ministering to the jazz scene in […]
Fake Your Way With Biz Cliches
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 […]
The Human Car Wash of Self-Esteem
It was one of those dinner parties where everyone had had a little too much to drink, and the conversation around the table had grown more . . . shall we say, spirited. Changes were […]
Flogging by Blogging
New guidelines released by the Federal Trade Commission say bloggers must disclose any money or freebies they receive in exchange for writing product reviews. The Wall Street Journal “Komodo dragon attack–I’m ON IT!” It’s […]
One Lawyer Gives Back by Helping Those More Fortunate Than Himself
NEEDHAM, Mass. It’s Thursday night in this mixed-income suburb of Boston, and the sight of cars lining a quiet residential street indicates to a casual observer that there’s a cocktail party in progress in one […]
Great Gatsby Roulette
It was May of my senior year in college. Everybody was coasting, knowing either what they were going to be doing the next year, or that they’d be doing nothing. Except for one guy, Tom. […]
Celine Dion, Ph. D.
Celine Dion has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree by a Canadian University. Mes cher amis– It is a great honor today to accept from thees fellow with thee funny hat the honorary doctorate degree. […]