The Pet Set
Pets are both our friends and members of our families, so when something is wrong in the doghouse or litterbox, we want to make it right. Here are some of the more interesting problems that […]
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.
Mapping the Human Genome for Dummies
Isadore Singer, one of the most important mathematicians of his era, took correspondence courses to learn the prerequisites for relativity and quantum mechanics. Obituary, The New […]
My Dark Horse Run for Anti-Pope
It was one of the darkest periods of my life: my girlfriend had dumped me, the firm where I worked had broken up in a fight between two factions, neither of which *sniff* wanted me […]
At the Worcester Zipper Hospital
It was the sort of thing that happens in an instant, but could change your life forever. Or at least until you die. I had just put on my half-zip pullover sweater and started to pull […]
Bid to End Logorrhea Stalls as Talks Drag On
BOSTON. This city, a center of medical research and home to some of the world’s greatest teaching hospitals, is also a four-way intersection for that most fundamental function of the human experience: talk, and lots […]
Your Chicken Advisor
Chickens are an essential part of the American economy, and yet Gallus domesticus gets a bad rap. The very word “chicken” is considered an insult to many, which makes constructive dialogue about the species difficult. Have a […]
One Late-Starting Writer Finds He Has Catching Up to Do
REVERE, Mass. The Bronze Banana has been a fixture in this gritty town north of Boston for a long time, as college boys, bachelor parties and aficionados of female flesh have for nearly two decades frequented its velour-flocked […]
Your Alien Love Advisor
Contacts between aliens and earthlings are increasing, and becoming hotter all the time! Unfortunately, most romantic advice columns just assume both parties are human–that’s where Your Alien Love Advisor comes in! Alien Love Advisor “Panel […]
As Taste for Sushi Spreads, Dinner Theatre Goes Kabuki
QUAD CITIES, Iowa. Sally and Jed Griffin like to think of themselves as cosmopolitan, even though they’ve spent most of their lives in the Midwest. “We lived in New York for a few years when […]
For Love or Money
A Las Vegas escort agency owner says he’s getting about forty applications every day, the majority from women running from the wreckage of lost finance jobs. Boston Herald. It was late as I headed out the door […]