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.
Great chapter title: "The Black Spot is Erased from the Map of the World and There Is Dancing in the Sunlight." FromCity of Endless Nightby Milo Hastings, 1920.
Nice to have the author's and illustrator's signatures on the front cover. From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
Great chapter title: "A Goddess Who is Suffering from Obesity and a Brave Man Who Is Afraid of the Law of Averages." From City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings, 1920.
It’s actually not all that easy to find weird computer/video games anymore. Everything seems to be created by focus groups or is otherwise homogenized. The weirdest games from other nations either don’t ever get exported or never get translated, and blog posts about weird games tend to be written by folks who haven’t seen enough weirdness in life to know actual idiosyncrasy when they see it. (Image source.)