By daledobson

Dale Dobson writes, animates and acts in the metropolitan Detroit area, and occasionally gets around to updating http://www.daledobson.com. His work has recently appeared online at Yankee Pot Roast, Opium, National Lampoon, and in The Wittenburg Door.

2,501,985 B.C.

An evolutionary pop song, to the tune of 1985, with apologies to “Bowling for Soup.” (includes audio) Australopithecus Looked a bit like us Had a smaller skull Was relatively dull Its life was day to day Just tryin’ to make its way We’d call it ape-man It had no way to plan It was gonna be successful It was gonna change and grow It was gonna send its kids To populate the globe Its novel upright stance Gave rise to speech and dance It had an average life But so much Has been So right since A species in slo-mo…

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