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.
Turns out that none of our books are about what they seem to be. This we learned from a friend in Australia, who has a special perspective on things (as we all know, everything in Australia is upside down). So imagine our surprise upon re-reading the world's unlikeliest script, The Dictionary of One-Letter Words: The Movie. Mind blown!
Here's a library ghost from the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976. Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.