Like a Rolling Stone...

Two cool things. First off, I just got off the phone with a New York fact checker for Rolling Stone magazine. A few months ago, a writer named Ivan Solotaroff approached me about doing a story on The Crew. Ivan is a crazy interesting cat... he's an ex-chess master and Scrabble savant from New York. He says he remember playing chess with Howard Lederer back in the eighties... he mainly works for diamond magazines these days, but freelances articles for some bigger magazines. He's the author of a few books, including a pretty well-received book on the death penalty, and a collection of stories called No Success Like Failure (I'm about 2/3rds of the way through... it's good). We started talking on the phone and eventually met up in Vegas last October.

Long story short... it looks like the article is actually going to make it into Rolling Stone in about a week and a half. It's going to be a pretty honest look at myself and The Crew, talking about stints in mental hospitals and runs at the gold bracelet. I'm a little weary because I've been a little burned by reporters before, but I think it's going to be an awesome article... especially because he spends a fair amount of time fleshing out the other members of The Crew (who with the exception of Scott usually go without a lot of limelight). Definitely check it out.


Second cool thing. I stumbled across an article today on Netscape which says that a scientific study has shown that you win more if you wear the color red. Here's the article. I guess from now I'm wearing red all the time... every edge counts.