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.
From the University of North Carolina at Asheville's 1971 yearbook. For an explanation of how this scanned page captures a genuine spirit, see that remarkable book The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine, which makes good on its promises of real ghosts, actual hauntings, and necromancy by proxy.
"Nick looked at Jim, his face full of yearning, sorrow, and pleading. He spoke, not in a human voice, but a message from his spirit. 'There's only one life, Jim, and it's eternity.'" From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
Here'a 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.
"The absolute proof of life after death." "Photograph of a materialized spirit face in formation, showing the unused viscous stuff called sctoplasm that issued from the medum 'Eva' to create these ghostlike forms. Photographed by Dr. Geley of Paris." From Hearst's International, 1921.
[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.]