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.]
Major Nelson: The clocks haven't stopped, just the calendar. Every day is Sunday, and if we don't do something about it, the world could be destroyed.
Dr. Bellows: How long has it been Sunday, major?
Major Nelson: Yesterday was Sunday and today is Sunday but what really worries me is that tomorrow is gonna be Sunday and the day after, unless I get some rest.
Dr. Bellows: You just lie there. I'll be right back.
Major Nelson: Thank you. Where are you going?
Dr. Bellows: To call a calendar maker, to stop the calendars for you.
"Because all the clocks disagree on the time of day, it is left up to the residents to decide their own temporal reality. All residences exist in a time warp. If the clock is right, you are hallucinating." From McGill Daily, Dec. 8, 1983.
[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.]