The Thing From Bloggy Swamp
Con Chapman
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Birthday
- September 28
- Bio
- . . . is the author of over forty books of humor available in print and Kindle format on amazon.com.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Managing Your Cats
May 26, 2012 01:28PM - Pscooter and Pskipper Get
Psychedelic in Pseattle
May 25, 2012 02:00PM - Raymond Carver, Poet of the
Short Story
May 25, 2012 08:18AM - How to Pay Higher Taxes
May 25, 2012 08:11AM - Dueling: It's Not Just for
Gentlemen Anymore
May 24, 2012 03:26PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “My wife has this crazy
idea that cats should sleep in
the
basement, as if
they're…”
2:19PM - “What can I say--I have
mixed feelings about 'em
both.”
May 25, 2012 07:40PM - “I know Blind Blake got
thrown out of church for
talkin' bout
diddy wah diddy
too…”
May 25, 2012 06:09PM - “$200? Congratulations!
You should throw a
party!
I've been
involved in the
legal…”
May 25, 2012 01:55PM - “Congrats and break a
leg.”
May 25, 2012 01:49PM
Con Chapman's Links
- New list
- Amazon's Con Chapman Page
- conchapman.com
A.J. Ayer,
founder of the Logical Positivist school of philosophy, had so many
love affairs “you quickly lose count.”
amazon.com.uk review of A.J. Ayer: A Life… Read full post »
DETROIT, Michigan. Nils Cyborg has spent his entire career with Chrysler Motors, a point of pride for the long-time Red Wings fan. "I'm a creature of Detroit," he says as he stares out an empty parking lot in front of Plant #2, where the popular PT Cruiser model is manufactured.
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… Read full post »NEWTON LOWER FALLS, Mass. It’s Friday afternoon, historically one of the busiest times of the week for Jim Varbenian, who’s owned a liquor store in this western suburb of Boston for two decades.
“When I started out, we’d sell maybe twenty cases of
… Read full post »April is the cruelest month, wrote T.S. Eliot, and as a poet he knew whereof he spake. (Archaic past tense provided at no extra cost.) It is in April, after all, that the rejection letters and no-you-didn’t-win-the-Alice-Wambsley-Memorial-Poetry-Competition notices from the aut… Read full post »
HOXIE, Arkansas. This town in Northeast Arkansas is drawing an unusual amount of attention as this fall's election approaches with the announcement by the Department of the Census that it has become the mean center of the nation's mullets--a hairstyle that is shor
… Read full post »Lent, the forty-day period before Easter Sunday, begins tomorrow. Around the world, children in Catholic schools are getting The Talk.
"No, you may not give up homework."
The Talk is usually delivered by a nun, who informs kids that the forty days of Lent are symbolic of the forty days
… Read full post »Because of a reporting error, guitarist Jimi Hendrix’s name was misspelled yesterday in a “g” section interview with psychologist Gary Marcus, who studies how the brain learns music.
&nb… Read full post »
I don't know about you, but for advice on matters of high finance, I turn daily to Money Central on msn.com. As the self-effacing folks at this site so humbly put it, they "connect you with some of the best content from MSN Money and the rest of the Web.
… Read full post »NEW YORK. Safra Cohen is a lowly first-year associate at a corporate law firm with offices in mid-town Manhattan who has spent her first six months on the job as the junior member of a team working on a billion-dollar merger. Her office is furnished with a standard-iss… Read full post »
LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H. Stung by an internal poll showing a majority of voters find him to be “artificial,” billionaire buyout king Mitt Romney huddled last night with high-priced consultants for an eleventh-hour image makeover as presidential primary season nears.
&ldq… Read full post »
The holiday season is upon us, which means time for office parties. Many careers have crashed and burned as a result of inappropriate behavior ‘neath the office Christmas tree/menorah/Kwanzaa thingy, so here are a few tips to make sure you still have a job come New Year’s Eve:
PYONGYANG, North Korea. Kim Jong-il, who transformed North Korea from a backwards nation into a backwards nation with nuclear weapons, died shortly before defeating South Korea in a triple-overtime badminton match, state-run news media has reported.
“Hmm–could I have hit… Read full post »
Millionaire musicians are an underserviced community.
Duff McKagan, former Guns N' Roses bassist, who has launched a wealth management firm for rockers.
It's not an easy path to take, to dedicate your life to the service of a community so neglected, so downtrodden, that they often have walk into dres… Read full post »
Occupy Wall Street protestors in Boston complained that homeless people had taken coats, blankets and food donated to the fight against income inequality. “They don’t bring anything to the table,” said a spokesman at the information tent. “It gets really frustrati
… Read full post »"I'm so broke I have to carry my desktop computer to Starbucks."
SAN DORITO, California. Two college football coaches were fired yesterday, and Chuck Grebnarik of San Dorito State was one of them. "We decided to go in a different direction," said the college's president William Cseko. "That direction would be towards our opponent's goal line… Read full post »
ALAMEDA, California. HomeQuest Financial, a subprime lender that has been cited for loan and foreclosure abuses in a number of states, today announced that it would set up a charitable fund tied to individual performances in baseball's World Series as a way to give bac
… Read full post »Imaginary friends who I make up for purposes of poorly-sourced articles often ask me “What’s it like to be a published playwright whose works have been performed off-off-off-off-off-off-off (continued in footnote) Broadway?”
Broadway: Not there yet
“It’s no
… Read full post »&nb… Read full post »
I'm still not over the fact that I lost the David Brooks Parody Contest sponsored by the alumni magazine at the University of Chicago, our mutual alma mater.
I thought it had everything; sharp jump-cuts between high and low culture, allusions to obscure Austrian economists, hectoring questions… Read full post »
The week after Labor Day is traditionally considered "America Gets Back to Work Week!" by office managers and other spoilsports. Efficiency experts say the best way to "streamline" your work is to cut down on distractions, but many people return from vacation to find their inboxes "ja… Read full post »
BOONEVILLE, Mo. Lloyd Yoder, a heavy-equipment operator for a construction company, is a big man with strong opinions. "I love my family, huntin', fixin' up the house and Star Wars, and not necessarily in that order," he quips with a wink at this reporter.
… Read full post »WASHINGTON. The sniping between potential Republican presidential candidates escalated yesterday with Texas Governor Rick Perry saying that former Mitt Romney's hair style would increase America's dependence on foreign oil, and Romney countering that "I could buy Texas
… Read full post »VATICAN CITY. Abandoning centuries of dogma, Pope Benedict XVI today issued an encyclical that approves the limbo, a Caribbean dance, at parties for Catholic teenagers.
"Limbo lower now!"
"There is serious reason to believe that devout youth can engage in limbo dancing withou
… Read full post »NEWARK, Delaware. When Mahlon Grenier got the call telling him he was the winner of the American Philosophical Society's undergraduate essay prize, he says he was as surprised as the next fellow. "In my apartment the next fellow is my roommate, so it wasn't that big of a deal," says
… Read full post »
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