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've heard of (and perhaps tried) opening a Bible at random and resting a finger on one verse as a form of divination. A more advanced practice is to do that but not look at the verse that comes up but rather attune to the answer that presents itself in your mind. Photo from Taylor Magazine, 1974.
You've heard the motto "Keep on truckin'" and may have assumed it involved the open road. However, the truckin' actually takes place on the roof, in the snow, on the lawn, or out the window. From Assumption College's 1975 yearbook.
"I haven't read any papers in a week. Well, why concern myself with other disasters when I have got one going on right here?" From Dark Shadows episode 145.
Ironically, this depicts the unevolved mind of the artist more than it does humanity at large. The caption reads, "If men looked like their minds, what a frightening world this would be." From The Martlet, 1972.