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.
Photographed at 4:22, the clock faces display 6:16 and 8:15. Brian Rawson-Ketchum noticed and documented this temporal anomaly in Battle Creek, Michigan. Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights ofwould-be investigators of temporal anomalies. The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
"The palm feels, thinks, talks, as the mouth can never speak. It speaks truths that words could never express from lips. It is the communicating medium of our most thrilling and lasting soul unions and spirit yearnings." —Joseph Bryant Hargett