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.
I'm not sure that calling otherworldly beings "macrobes" (opposite of "microbes") ever caught on. From Tico Times (San Jose), via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1994.
For those of us who add songs to beloved movie soundtracks as they grace our airwaves, the greater Meet the Hollowheads soundtrack should include Chaka Khan’s “My Love is Alive.” You’re welcome!
Speaking of Chaka Khan, as you revisit her music video for “I Feel For You” (a blessed music video, obviously created by angels), note how the (superb!) dancers all get to connect with the camera. This is incredibly rare and a beautiful thing.
The city of An Oghmagh, Northern Ireland seems to exist within a rift in the fabric of time/space. Temporal anomalies documentarian Kenneth Allen offers three proofs. The first occurs at the troubling intersection of two streets with the same name (that's always playing with fire), and the clock (four hours early) is situated below a word missing its apostrophe. (Grammatical anomalies may, for reasons still foggy, trigger temporal anomalies all on their own.) Two "Campsie" streets, two (or more?) "Charlies" ... it's all a lot for the time to keep up with. The second proof is of a clock that proclaims "3:17" at 11:00 a.m. The third proof is of a clock displaying "6:15" at 11:30 a.m. For any would-be time travelers, An Oghmagh offers a city-wide portal.