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The Stat Card: A Pictorial History
July 9th, 2002 began as an ordinary summer morning, perhaps a little hotter and stiller
than usual. Then a lone bridge player began to change his stat card...Warning: The
following images are extremely graphic and for mature audiences only.
Before that fateful morning Gerard had an ordinary stat card, with his web address, a little
harmless hype for Bridge Is A Conversation, that sort of thing. And
then he snapped. First this:
Now is that any way to attract students? Next, the vampire special:
I never drink...wine. And doesn't character assassination usually entail spreading
false rumors? It's a real shame we lost some of this prose off the right margin. A
few minutes later Gee realized that maybe the character assassination
business wasn't such a clever idea after all:
However, I'm still sucking blood at this point. Time for a quick shift to etiquette lessons:
Is it black tie too, or can you come as you are? And finally, the return to quasi-normality:
What a long strange trip it's been.
Update: An intimate portrait of Gerard
in an unguarded moment, making it clear to everyone, once and for all,
why he hides his stats:
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