Introduction
The American Fool is Back in Paris
That’s right, Chosie took another little trip this year to his favorite city and, as is always the case, got into the sortta situations it takes a fool like him to get into. So you can decide for yourself if he’s even a bigger fool than before, as promised on the cover of this book.
And as I said in the introduction to Volume One of the An American Fool in Paris (AFIP) series, from which this paragraph is cribbed, a bit of background won’t hurt ya, especially with someone like Chosie, who is or has been, as you will know because I’m telling you right now, Pope, President (of the USA ), Commissioner of the Soap Box Derby Championships, Chairman of the Olympics Committee, and probably most impressive of all, BFF of Joey Chestnut, eighteen (18) times Champion of Nathan’s Fourth of July Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest (and winner of just about every contest anywhere for eating just about every kind of imaginable as well as some unimaginable edible and nonedible stuff). Joey has even bested Chosie’s Co-Chief-of-Staff (an honor shared with Chosie’s bunkie and one of the loves of his life, Gal Friday), Icky the Spider, in a bug-eating contest.
Ya’d like to know how Chosie got all those great gigs, right, but sorry, this little book you have just bought is JUST about his shenanigans on THIS trip to Paris, that is, since what happened to him in Volume One of the AFIP series. For the rest of that stuff, ya gotta read #3, The Most Unkindest Cut, in the “What Chosie Knows” (WCK) series. The Most Unkindest Cut is, as far as I know, only the second comic novel about circumcisions and foreskins, and Chosie’s efforts to recover the tip of his own Johnso, which leads him on adventures through the history of Christianity, the Crusades, Papal and Presidential politics and corruption in the National Soap Box Derby championships.
This collection is #5 in the WCK series. A little confusing, but if you buy all the books with Chosie in them, you’ll figger it out.
If you read AFIP #1, you already know that Chosie has a number of obsessions about the French, because, they are, as everybody knows,
A funny race
That fights
With their feet
And fucks
With their face.
Chosie’s obsessions about the French perhaps say more about him than les français, and are quite a list, but a few will come up again and again in these stories: Frogs, and eating the legs of the same; Aspirins and the French method of taking them at the other end for the mal de tête (headache); going to museums to see statues and pictures of Naked Gals; and above all, the Chicness of French women.
But you will say, everybody knows how chic French women are, so it doesn’t make you a fool to say so. But, as you will see, Chosie carries that sensible and simply factual observation about the female half of the French population to a point where it verges on a mania. In other words, he makes a fool of himself over it, as he does over frogs legs and suppositories. And just about everything else. Because . . . he IS a fool
So on with the story.
What Chosie Knows series:
Dune 2: A Review
To Boldly Go Where No Fool Has Gone Before
The Most Unkindest Cut or, Chosie and Da Peenie Code
An American Fool in Paris
The American Fool is Back in Paris
Table of Contents
- Chosie Interviews Banned Author Richard Gid “Chosie” Powers. 9
- Chosie Survives a Frogs 🐸 Legs Scare. 14
- The Frog 🧟♂️ Apocalypse. 18
- Emmanual Macarony, President of France, Has a Headache (mal de tête). 23
- Chosie Scores the American 🇺🇸 Room at the Tour d’Argent! 27
- Trigger Alert from Paris. 30
- Chosie Has Bad News For France: No World Cup Pour Toi (For You). 33
- The Robbery at the Louvre: the Mystery. 36
- The New Louvre. 42
- Snail Race Scandal Slimes France. 45
- Chosie Apologizes For Frogs Legs And Suppository Jokes. 49
- Chosie Interviews The Phantom of the Opera. 52
- The Robbery at the Louvre: SOLVED! 56