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.
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
What do "fifty shades of grey" have to do with the Wizard of Oz? One might think that in the Oz spectrum, ruby (slipper) is connected to emerald (city) by yellow (brick road). However, there are actually fifty shades of grey between ruby and emerald. (Spoiler: it's the fifty shades of Toto's coat of many colors.)
Here are the colors of "Charles B. Stilz, President," which we acquired from nine ink stamped signatures in the Journals of the Common Council of the City of Indianapolis, 1912.