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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
At first glance, we thought this was a pillow fight in progress, but our custom Uncanny Detector app revealed that they are in fact reading newspapers possessed by spook journalists. From Santa Clara's 1987 yearbook.
A caution to writers: a celestial globe is like spell-checking software, in that once you grow accustomed to having it, dependency grows. A celestial globe is one of the many tools we use for writing our lesser-known works of esoterica.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
"Whether we believe we can take it with us or not, our worldly possessions hold our energy. The transfer of energy into inanimate objects may seem strange to some of us, but objects themselves are just energy" (Eleanor Hooks, A Daily Sip of Joy and Peace). From Catawba's 1987 yearbook.
We'd assume this was from a production of Dracula, if college yearbooks weren't such occult objects. From the Lycoming yearbook of 1980. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
We're sometimes asked what our teachers must have been like. From Tulane's 1988 yearbook. See this remarkable guide to practial magick you can do with a pencil and paper: The Pencil Witch.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
"Ask Henda. 'She knows the answers'" to these questions: "Will I be lucky in love?" "Will I have financial trouble this year?" "Is this my lucky day?" "Am I putting on too much weight?" "Will it rain today?" "Will my health improve?" From the State Fair of Texas, 1984, photographed by Lynn Lennon.
