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.
"Remember Thanksgiving with a Christmas present." It's a precursor to holidays colliding in The Nightmare Before Christmas. From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1971.
We always enjoy stumbling upon news of haunted forests suddenly appearing. We can confirm that haunted forests can, according to our metabolism of time, seem to blink in and out of existence. From La Vie (Lebanon Valley), 1997.