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.
Here's a precursor to drag queen Maddelynn Hatter's ensemble being upstaged by a prop in The Boulet Brothers' Dragula season 3. From three decades earlier, in Aurora, 1981. Why can't we learn from history?
There's disagreement about which drag queen first made the cover of a magazine, but here's Dan Leno way back in 1903. Also, Dan Leno put the "y" in "hys" long before the "y" in "womyn," as we see in his autobiography of 1899.