Category Archives: Roll…of…Honor!

Tiny Bubbles….

…in the boo(tini)…

The other day, one of Princess Pinky’s official photo-chroniclers photographed some children blowing giant soap bubbles somewhere in the area, and this gave me an idea….Pinky as bubble girl….

Oh dear....are you going to leave her there?

Oh dear….are you going to leave her there?

I wonder where she’ll land?

Meanwhile, thanks to all who delved into their art history knowledge (or Google) to identify correctly, the painters who immortalized Minette (the panda formerly known as Mei Mei) in Paris in the late 1800’s.  Our winners are Cyndi A., Laura S., Sandra P., Sue D., and DoxieDad.  An only partially eaten cuppycake goes to Barb B. for making a valiant attempt at the correct answers. Welcome to the Roll of Honor!

Huzzah!

Stay tuned when we return next Wednesday for the newest Inspector Panda Episode.

Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda

A new cartoon is in progress!

Silly me, I forgot to post the official Roll of Honor graphic when I awarded Lee her membership, but I also need to post this AGAIN for repeat Roll of Honor member Sharen H., for her work as the lead team member of the Stuffy Panda Rescue Foundation.  Sharen has once again plucked a poor, lonesome stuffy panda from a life of squalor and degradation and delivered him to the Stuffy Panda Rehabilitation Center at the Hospital for Indigent Pandas, which was, of course, founded by the lovely Babette de Panda.  He has already made friends with the other stuffy pandas and I know he’ll be very happy here.

Tomorrow I will post the first installment of an extended cartoon story, The Panda Kindergarten’s Italian Adventure!  Huzzah!

Till tomorrow,

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

News Flash! Bob T. Panda travels to London!

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, One of Bob T.’s representatives was invited, quite on the spur of the moment, to travel to London with his good friend Suzanne S.  We had stopped into to visit her at her Sunday job, working at Brackenwood Gallery, in beautiful Langley, WA.

“I thought you were already in London,” I said.

“No, I leave tomorrow!” replied Suzanne.  “Maybe Mini-Bob would like to join me on my trip.”

So then, Mini-Bob and I had to have a conversation about what he would do in London.  Perhaps a visit to the National Portrait Gallery to see Beatrix Potter’s portrait.  “I’m definitely NOT going to Tate Modern,” said Mini-Bob, “but I would like to go and see the wonderful Pre-Raphaelaite paintings at Tate Britain.  Babette gets to go everywhere, and I really need to check up on the torch bears, and maybe Suzanne will take me to Edinburgh to visit Sunshine and Sweetie.  I could give them some ‘pointers’ for next year.”

I suggested that Mini-Bob not get too up close and personal with the Scottish pandas, as they might accidentally think he was a cuppycake, as he is small and round, and quite sweet looking.  He promised he would be careful, and also that he would write a journal of his trip, and send them to me via email from his mephone.

I think it's high time that SOMEONE checks up on the torch bears

 

We’ve already received his first communication, sent from his seat (in first class, no less) on his Pand-Air flight to London:

“Hi everyone! Here I am on Pand-Air flight 999 to London Heathrow!  It’s really fun sitting in First Class.  I should add that my hostess on the trip, Suzanne, was not able to fly in first class, but the flight attendants assure me that they will make sure I don’t get left behind when we get off the plane in London.  I was planning on sharing Suzanne’s seat, but when the flight attendants saw me, they INSISTED I ride in front.  When we get over the ocean, and there is no chance of hitting anything, they said they’d even let me fly the plane for a little bit.  After all, everyone loves pandas.  They just can’t do enough for me!

BTW, going through security was a breeze.  Since pandas don’t wear clothes (Babette excepted) they could see I didn’t have anything not permitted with me, so they waved me through, although all the agents wanted to frisk me, as I am so cute.  I’ll write again tomorrow!  This is so exciting!”

Of course I should mention that Suzanne is now an esteemed member of the Roll of Honor, for her generous offer to take Mini-Bob with her on this trip.  I hope they will send pictures of Mini-Bob as he takes Britain by storm!

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

News Flash! Bob T. Panda travels to London!

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, One of Bob T.’s representatives was invited, quite on the spur of the moment, to travel to London with his good friend Suzanne S.  We had stopped into to visit her at her Sunday job, working at Brackenwood Gallery, in beautiful Langley, WA.

“I thought you were already in London,” I said.

“No, I leave tomorrow!” replied Suzanne.  “Maybe Mini-Bob would like to join me on my trip.”

So then, Mini-Bob and I had to have a conversation about what he would do in London.  Perhaps a visit to the National Portrait Gallery to see Beatrix Potter’s portrait.  “I’m definitely NOT going to Tate Modern,” said Mini-Bob, “but I would like to go and see the wonderful Pre-Raphaelaite paintings at Tate Britain.  Babette gets to go everywhere, and I really need to check up on the torch bears, and maybe Suzanne will take me to Edinburgh to visit Sunshine and Sweetie.  I could give them some ‘pointers’ for next year.”

I suggested that Mini-Bob not get too up close and personal with the Scottish pandas, as they might accidentally think he was a cuppycake, as he is small and round, and quite sweet looking.  He promised he would be careful, and also that he would write a journal of his trip, and send them to me via email from his mephone.

I think it's high time that SOMEONE checks up on the torch bears

 

We’ve already received his first communication, sent from his seat (in first class, no less) on his Pand-Air flight to London:

“Hi everyone! Here I am on Pand-Air flight 999 to London Heathrow!  It’s really fun sitting in First Class.  I should add that my hostess on the trip, Suzanne, was not able to fly in first class, but the flight attendants assure me that they will make sure I don’t get left behind when we get off the plane in London.  I was planning on sharing Suzanne’s seat, but when the flight attendants saw me, they INSISTED I ride in front.  When we get over the ocean, and there is no chance of hitting anything, they said they’d even let me fly the plane for a little bit.  After all, everyone loves pandas.  They just can’t do enough for me!

BTW, going through security was a breeze.  Since pandas don’t wear clothes (Babette excepted) they could see I didn’t have anything not permitted with me, so they waved me through, although all the agents wanted to frisk me, as I am so cute.  I’ll write again tomorrow!  This is so exciting!”

Of course I should mention that Suzanne is now an esteemed member of the Roll of Honor, for her generous offer to take Mini-Bob with her on this trip.  I hope they will send pictures of Mini-Bob as he takes Britain by storm!

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Yoga for Pandas

OK, I guess I must bestow yet another Roll of Honor award, this time on my favorite yoga instructor in the whole world (and I have been through more than 1 or 2).  I mentioned last week that I had, of my own free will, mind you, completed 21 sun salutes (on the same day, not just in one month) as per her usual practice of having us do this when class falls on a solstice or equinox.  When I told her this she said, “I just had a vision of a panda doing the sun salute.”  Of course what a panda would salute is not, perhaps, the sun, but something that is more near and dear to a panda’s (well, this panda, anyway) heart.  Congratulations Amanda! (of Whidbey Island Yoga)  You are now on the Roll of Honor!  (certificate and cartoon arriving at class this Sunday!)  (OK, the other thing that gets her on the Roll of Honor is that she indulges me in my obsession with my favorite spot, and doesn’t mind when I make unsuspecting newcomers to the class move if they get there before me.)

All salute the sacred cuppycake!

 

Be the Bear!  Embrace the Cuppycake!

Bob T. Panda

More 2012 Previews! Huzzah! AND a Roll of Honor Inductee!

 I have to start this post by thanking a tireless promoter of all things panda on Facebook.  DoxieMom Pandamonium (not her real name, I would guess)  posts compilation videos from the panda cams streamed from the US zoos, often Zoo Atlanta, since that is the home of our nations youngest panda.  This is a huge amount of work, as she has to watch hours of videos to get these little 1.5 minute gems.  Every once in a while she mentions that she doesn’t know how much longer she can do this, so we all whine and plead and then she relents and keeps doing it.  She often gives these videos really clever names that leave me laughing out loud, and Mehitabel glaring at me from her perch on my drawing table, because I’ve disturbed her beauty sleep.  Her most recent one was so funny (and such a great video that I’m not even going to admit how many times I have watched it) that the only thing I could think to do was steal the title for this cartoon.  But I’m putting her on the Roll of Honor, so I hope she will forgive me.

DoxieMom Pandamonium : you are da Bear! Welcome!

So without any more fol-der-al, here is today’s 2012 Panda Preview of upcoming cartoons!  (I stole this idea from Doonesbury ….if you are going to steal stuff, steal from the best, I always say!)

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Going Outward Bound to Reach Your Inner Panda

 Yes, we have another Roll of Honor inductee! Good friend and panda supporter, Ellen N. has been trying to get on the Roll of Honor for quite sometime, offering therapy services for Bob to help him deal with the panda kindergarten, among Bob’s many other problems.  Finally she suggested that the panda kindergarten be sent to an Outward Bound experience.  As per usual, here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire  we can’t just take an idea at face value.  NOOOOO! We must twist and subvert the original idea until it only barely (or bearly) resembles the original idea because, well, we’re just that sort of bear!  So without further ado, here is today’s feature cartoon !

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Oh Boy! Two new inductees to the Roll of Honor! And Cuppycakes!

We are pleased to announce *2* new inductees to the Roll of Honor!  First, we would like to welcome Sue Frause, in the catagory of “Random Acts of Cuppycakes,”  for leaving a little package of cuppycakes on her doorknob before she went off on her errands.  Was that cool or what?   There she was on Fez Book talking about Farmer Bob making cuppycakes for her birthday, and I comment that I’ll be right over.  So, she writes back that she’ll leave some on the porch for me!  This is the very definition of awesome. And to top it off, she mentioned me ( Bob T. Panda) in her Seattle P.I. Blog, because after all, if you are talking about cuppycakes, you are talking about me!  So welcome to the Roll of Honor, Sue!  (Good cuppycakes, by the way!)

Our second lucky Roll of Honor inductee is Nina Laden, children’s author and illustrator extraordinaire,  for the wonderful panda earrings she made for me out of something called shrink film.  The little pandas are sitting and holding a pencil that is almost as big as the panda.  I’ll take a picture and post it.  They are really the cutest thing.  I can’t wait to wear them.  (They will look really good against my black ear fur!)  Opening the package totally made my day.  By the way, the reason I was so fortunate to receive this fabulous gift, was a little challenge that Nina was passing along, where the first 5 people who commented on this post from Nina (on Fez Book) would receive something from Nina, made by hand.  It is a little like a chain letter, as Nina said in the note that accompanied my earrings, but with the MAJOR difference that the recipients self-select themselves, as opposed to some %@@!#$$&* chain letter that you have no interest in perpetuating.  Also, then you get something cool and special made by hand (or by paw, in my case).  By the way, if you ever send me an actual chain letter, I will be the one that breaks the chain.  (Oh god, does this mean that the economic meltdown is ALL MY FAULT????)  Anyway, I’m working on my “made by hand thing” but if you’re not already on the list, it’s too late now. Sorry.  I highly recommend this kind of activity.  Thank’s Nina.  You are the Bear!

Till next time, when the panda kindergarten begins “helping” Bob with his campaign,

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

“In the future, everyone will be a panda for 15 minutes”

Pandy Warhol, Created by Rob S.

 

We recently came across this work of art, from the 1970’s, the era of “Pop Art” most exemplified by the late Andy Warhol.  What is not widely known, is that Andy had a younger brother named “Pandy” who was also an artist, as well as a panda (you can see that Andy’s coloring came from the panda side of the family, although not the general build)

While Andy Warhol claimed that “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes,”  his brother Pandy Warhol had a different philosphy.  His biographer, Rob S. uncovered this statement: “In the future, everyone will be a panda for 15 minutes.”

Seems like a no-brainer to us!

Be the Bear

Bob T. Panda

PS: For Rob’s contribution to the Panda Chronicles, he has earned a place on the Roll of Honor!  Congratulations Rob.  We knew we’d reel you in eventually.

But wait, there’s more!

I don’t know how I forgot to mention Judy H.V.W. in our post contest wrap up.  Could it be because she introduced Miss Babette to the infamous Claude Pandet?  Well, she did send a couple early photos of Babette as she started her around the world journey, so we’ll let bygones be bygones. So, a tip of the bamboo to Judy as well.

And now we have another Roll of Honor inductee to mention.  Sharen H. of Whidbey Island is known far and wide as the founding member of the Stuffy Panda Rescue Foundation, which is now affiliated with the Hospital for Indigent Pandas, which of course is, in turn, founded by Babette de Panda!  Sharen has single handedly rescued over 5 stuffy pandas to date, placing them in appropriate, loving homes.  Be the Bear, Sharen!  She has also personally adopted 2 of the stuffy pandas and I’m sure her husband will be happy to welcome many more.  Take it from me, 2 is just the beginning!

Tune in tomorrow, when we see one of the dangers of unrestricted internet access for the panda kindergarten.  Can you say “Misery Bear”?????

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda