An observant comment on yesterday’s post pointed out the link from the Kwalado to Myron Krueger’s creature<\/i>. In fact the Kwalado has a long and proud lineage, dating very far back. Some of her recent ancestors include Peter Lord’s character Morph (1977), the Id Monster from Forbidden Planet<\/i> (1956), the intrepid hero of Chuck Jones’ Duck Amuck<\/i> (1953), and all the little playthings that provided such innocent amusement for Chernabog in Fantasia<\/i> (1940). Not to mention just about everything from the early career of Art Clokey.<\/p>\n
Scientists have recently discovered that in addition to the well known geological eras of the Pliocene<\/i>, the Pleistocene<\/i> and the Holocene<\/i>, there was another, lesser known era, when primordial creatures of indeterminate morphology roamed the Earth.<\/p>\n
I speak, of course, of the Plasticene<\/i>.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t always thus. There was a time when all creatures were determinate in form. Then came the cataclysmic occurrence that geologists refer to as the “Plasticene explosion”. Nobody is quite sure why the Plasticene era occurred when it did, yet arguably it brought about the most significant apological transformation in geological history.<\/p>\n
The Kwalado knows nothing of this. She is all too easily upset, and usually prefers not to dwell on the past. If I were you, I wouldn’t say anything to her about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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