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.
This moment from Dark Shadows episode 719 has nothing to do with the mark of the bunny from Atlantic Christian's 1988 yearbook. But when you've seen enough episodes of Dark Shadows, everything seems to relate.
"In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things." —Two Brothers [Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, 1889]. From Marion's 1923 yearbook.
What the recipe books never admit: any one confection can give rise to worry, accusation, joy, anger, and questioning (as depicted here). The larger the baked good, the wider the range of emotions it engenders. From Mansfield's 1919 yearbook.
"Light is weightless, and yet it is so real that it provides the yardstick for measuring the universe" (George Seielstad, 1962). From Duke's 1969 yearbook.