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.
Here's the strange manifesto of Neons Gone Mad, about which Gary Barwin (author of Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted) says, "These cats are living their nine lives (that's 18 in total) to the fullest of their auricular nimbosity, making deft punkts pointedly in this great remiaou remeow remix, tessellating their oscillatory cattongues to take us beyond the veil to the catasubtonic world of gneonsticistic dreams, in this tasty neon mignon gnom noms, an aural gnomon taking the light and turning it dark to part the conceptual curtain (vale veil!) to allow us to gaze upon the performances on night's stage."
Neons Gone Mad is honored that Diego Merletto of the Italian band Static Movement was interested in a clockwork cover of the classic song "Radio Station." (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)