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.
"Contrary to popular belief, there are no set stages for grieving the loss of a loved one. If you've heard a lot about the stages of grief, this may surprise you." —Chapel of the Chimes
Because water bends all the rules of science ("Water: The Weirdest Liquid On the Planet"), we used the mysteries of crystallization to uncover the deepest secret of the Easter Island monoliths. What we saw in the carved Polynesian ice cube froze our blood!
A sense of the supernatural and the weird, bound up with a mysterious feeling of limitlessness and indefinitude that haunted him in his thoughts about this world and our earthly life. The forms of another mysterious world, very near to this earth of ours, were seemingly present to his imagination. From The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry, Vol. 2, 1887.