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.
A knight battles a caveman in this precursor to time-travel tales with unlikely encounters. From Story-Telling Ballads by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1920.
"I stepped backward in time. How else explain my visit to that oddly old-fashioned office—which ceased to exist after I left?" From Fate magazine, 1960.
This happened to us when we purchased the Medusa plaque pictured here.
We're honored to have received a triple-"cool" approval from Yeeflex on our remix!
Let us know -- did any stopped clocks begin ticking while you listened to this music? Did "time fly"? The song is just under 5 minutes long, but did you experience any sense of "timelessness" along the way? Whether or not you can verify a temporal anomaly, we had fun creating this video to share some time with you.
The original version of "Sunrise" (by Meizong & Yeeflex, via Argofox) is here: youtu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
You'll have noticed the wavy hands of this clock that interpenetrates a cemetery. You'll rarely see unbending hands on clocks that interpenetrate cemeteries. From Virginia Commonwealth University's 1974 yearbook.