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.
Her official yearbook portrait. Looks like she got her mop hair bangs cut for the occasion. As wearers of genuine mop wigs, we confirm the authenticity of this photo. From Anderson's 1989 yearbook.
As if something out of a Philip K. Dick novel, this magazine (and others of its ilk) promised all sorts of inventions that never moved past the patent stage and into the general public's actual life; rather, these promises of high-tech utopia merely lulled the populace into getting through another drab day as slaves of the Powers that Be, with that elusive carrot of a better tomorrow always just around the corner. From Illustrated World, 1922.
Reblog only if you're a recreational reader and can relate to the special joy depicted in this photograph. From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1951 yearbook.