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.
The world beyond the looking glass: "I feel that this is right for me; I know that this is wrong." From Boston College's 1998 yearbook, indexed as being published in 1913 over at Archive.org, thus proving that the book bends time.
Reblog if you belong in the Nut Section. From the University of Washington's 1923 yearbook. Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
Talking fish like "Billy Bass" are nothing new. This one, for example, ran a university in 1977. When these types retire, they go on lucrative speaking tours. Hence, the "Billy Bass" phenomenon. From Pembroke's 1977 yearbook.
The "weight of time" that we feel in every breath looms upon us from the clock tower in the sky. It's there, no matter which way you turn, as proven by the endpapers of the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1952.
The fogs of time can overwhelm old photographs, but often the essential spirit of a scene will somehow strive to communicate itself. From North Central's yearbook of 1970. See The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.