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.
It's that time of year again! "The Snowman moves slowly to the door, fades through it, and disappears." Stage directions from As Good As Gold, A Play in One Act by Laurence Housman, 1916
What "the Snow-man wishes me to say" (c. 1902). This style of anti-ventriloquism -- a sort of mediumistic channeling with a dummy figure -- recalls the ape's interpreter in Xavier: Renegade Angel episode 9, "Signs from Godrilla" (2007): "Now she's being very eloquent, saying some very touching things. She's being moving."