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.
As we exclusively revealed here, the glowing trees in old yearbooks constitute a worldwide forest that has to this day eluded the study of arboriculturists. From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1998 yearbook.
You've heard musicians hem and haw over how their music gets inspired. Sometimes there's good reason for their caginess. From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1980.
This photograph may be used to orient the etheric body toward the akashic library. However, it should not be used during near-death experiences. From the Cape Cod yearbook, 1964.
"On Earth, fountain is one thing, light another. When thirsting, thou seekest a fountain, and to get to the fountain thou seekest light" (St. Augustine of Hippo). From East Carolina's 1973 yearbook.