Before you go off again, did you really want an answer to your initial question?

An answer may have not left room for you to continue, so it was probably all pretext on your part, but I believe JC already answered it. "... b watson was probably the most interesting flyertalk poster in a long time. I thought many may find more information about him interesting ..."

This rang true for me and I am glad JC wrote not only the book but posted a link here to info on it. I find it quite interesting and, of course, sad. I knew b watson as a mere aquaintance having met him at an FT dinner. Unlike bad press would have you believe, that he was constantly an indulgent, opinionated food and wine glutton, he was quiet, humble and reserved that night.

After that dinner, our group called him Black Card because he thought nothing of handing over his Black AMEX card for pictures, just because we asked, so we could show what one looked like for our FT community pictures. He didn't say anything. We, in fact, thought to cover up the number as he didn't seem to notice and didn't say anything.