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.
"So many ghosts, and forms of fright, / Have started from their graves tonight. / They have driven sleep from mine eyes away; / I will go down to the chapel and pray" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend). From Satirikon, 1909.
I used one of those old school acquaintance finder programs, and these faces came up as probable hits. What's weird is that I do, in fact, know two of them! From Salem's 1978 yearbook.
Here is revealed one of the complex processes inherent in the turning of the year. It's rarely spoken of, for obvious reasons. From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.