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.
"UFOs exist in minds, hearts." With so much mindlessness and heartlessness, it's little wonder so few people are in touch with UFOs. By the way, there's a heart within the mind, too. Headline via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997; book cover from Heart of the Mind: Engaging Your Inner Power To Change With Neuro-linguistic Programming by Connirae Andreas and Steve Andreas.
Truth be told, we're still trying to fit into the postwar world, and plastics frankly haven't been the answer we hoped they'd be. From Mechanix Illustrated, May 1945.
Cats are ancestors of the violin. [We once met a woman who said she had been a violin in a former life. Perhaps she wasn't so crazy.] The techniques described in How to Be Your Own Cat are a stepping-stone toward becoming your own violin.