Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2025 June 04 • Wednesday

Happy birthday!

We're simple people here at Gutbrain Headquarters. We like the same things everybody else does: watching TV outside, speculating that "time" is not a real thing, getting blood tests and reading issues of Chess Review that are almost seventy years old (even though we don't play chess).

As is so often the case, this particular periodical came from the venerable Bookstore Restaurant in Wellfleet, MA. It isn't summer without a visit to that noble institution! And this time the bookstore was actually open and in the presumably capable hands of a young man in a Blockbuster Video uniform.

(I discussed this matter with the gentleman in question and it was an interesting conversation that I, typically, have already almost completely forgotten.)

This August 1956 issue of Chess Review found its way to my hands more or less randomly, guided slightly by an appreciation of the cover.

Flipping through it I was pleased to discover notice of a certain Bobby Fischer!

Pretty neat!