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 song is a spinoff of two we wrote for Ken Clinger back in 1996, "Indoor Kitty" and "Farmyard Kitty." Here's the "Crimson Kitty" version with lyrics by Dan Fioretti and references to early King Crimson.
By the way, the kitty we hired for the video is technically cinnabar (though it identifies as vermilion), but since it's all in black-and-white, we thought we could get away with it.