CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
Here's a good exit line, from Dark Shadows episode 801. "Perhaps I'll be back in a little while; then I'll undo some of the mischief I shall be blamed for."
Today they are derided, but here's a tin-foil hat as part of a fashion ensemble. From "The Daze of Ancient Rome" by Paul Sillivan, in Duquesne Monthly, 1922.
What did I expect the front page story to be, when it's from the home of mesh bags? A rather fetishistic tribute to the fascinating gleaming silken texture of mesh bags. From Wadco News, 1922.
Yeah, we've had that meal ... only they never did bring any of those little moist finger towels, and we were like, WTF? From The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.” —Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide To Getting Lost
Our illustration is from Dark Shadows episode 857. "Anything is possible beyond the I-Ching door."
Apparently we're not the only ones who mark our calendars with the three states of haunted barn ghosts -- awake nights, awake [in the day], and asleep in the nighttime. From Antioch News, Sept. 1996.
Two things: we wouldn't listen to a UFO lecturer who didn't look like this, and all speakers should have their own words projected onto their faces. From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1998.