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.
"Haunted by a strange and disturbing dream." We had a waking dream like this when we encountered open graves in a forgotten cemetery and filmed the experience. From Dark Shadows episode 1139.
For fear of a caretaker pulling back the ivy and showing us our own tombstone again, we visit cemeteries only when nobody's around. From Together, 1957.
We drove 90 minutes to a ruined cemetery, inspired by this passage from the fantastic play The Tenth Man by Paddy Chayefsky. When we passed a hearse and drove behind a truck branded with the word “BEYOND,” we knew we were on the right road.