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.
Twenty of their faces are more than partially obscured. Our guess is that it took so long to set up the shot that nobody even cared at that point. From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1923 yearbook.
A photo from Baron Von Schrenck-Notzing's The Materialization of Phenomena, in which a nun's veiled face emerges from the right side of a spirit medium's head. From Current Opinion, 1922.
"Ectoplasm, an established marvel or a flimsy myth?" A photo from Baron Von Schrenck-Notzing's The Materialization of Phenomena, in which a spirit medium summons a ghost through a strong, painful effort of will. From Current Opinion, 1922.
Here is revealed why so many movies are awful. "Every one with any authority went into the cutting room with scissors and no conscience." From Picture Play magazine, 1922.