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.
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927. See This Book is a Cactus, about which Adam McFarland writes: "For anyone who remembers what it was like to have fun without technology, this book is for you. Wait... This cactus is for you... I have managed, so far, to keep my Cactus alive. It is a bit trickier than it sounds. But it is the most fun I've had in a long time that didn't require charged batteries."