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.
"You see, the gods told him the secret magic number of the universe, the number which unlocks all the rules that bind you mortals to your daily dull lives. The number is whispered so deeply into the soul that no one can remember it without using the magic." From Dark Shadows episode 358.
The street is named after this clock tower which doesn't tell time in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee. "As if time lost all sense of itself and forgot to move forward, a man caught in thick fog arguing with himself over what day it is" (Linda Nemec Foster, Talking Diamonds).
We've seen figures cut out of photographs, but too often we forget that the cutout reveals the figures "light body" that continues to thoughtfully dwell in the scene. From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.