I found several names, the first being a dazzle, but I also found they can be called a zeal! I love alliterations, so a zeal of zebras hits me just right!
A group of pandas, of course, is an embarrassment. No, I mean that’s what a group of pandas is called. I mean, pandas can be embarrassing! I mean have you seem them eat? Before you know it, their tummies are covered in bamboo pieces, or cookie crumbs, or frosting…
Some Pandas are embarrassing even when they’re NOT in a group!
We have a zeal for zebras!!!
Read on for some exciting NOOZ!!!!
Yeas! It’s true! Book 9 of the Panda Chronicles is right around the corner!!! I’ve been working on it, procrastinating, working a bit more, some more procrastination, interspersed with some new technology frustration, but it is finally DONE!!!!
Proofs have been ordered, and should arrive by early next week, so as soon as I make sure they put in the pages in the right order and right directions, I can push the old publish button, and BOB’S YOUR UNCLE!!!
And now, a little cover reveal, just for you to see first!
I must sadly tell you that ONCE AGAIN I was not awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant for Panda Satire. Announcement day has left me a sad panda (but you get to see my favorite cartoon!)
In 10 Years There Has Not Been One Grant Awarded in Panda Satire!!!!
Why IS there no MacArthur Fellowship for Panda Satire, anyway?
Also, today is National Voter Registration Day. If you are not registered to vote, what are you waiting for? By not using your voice, you allow others to speak for you and you might not like what they’re saying. Please register and please vote. Even in little pesky local elections like school board! You might not think those are important, but we are finding out that they are. Even here on (mostly) true blue South Whidbey, there is an ongoing attempt to replace smart, caring school board members with anti-vaxxing, anti-equality right wing authoritarians.
I’m gonna be voting, I’m going to remind my friends to vote. Don’t let Mittens rule from the rear!
We are in the tail end of September (How the heck did THAT happen????) which means that it’s almost October, and you know what that means! It’s almost time for our annual rebroadcast of The Wizard of Wu!!! Once upon a time, a long looooong time ago (when there were only 3 major networks to choose from!!!!) The Wizard of Oz was rebroadcast every year right around Halloween.
This was so long ago, that when I first started watching this movie, we only had a black and white TV, so even when they got to Oz, it was still all in black and white. Eventually we got a color TV and I was so excited to watch the annual encore presentation of The Wizard of Oz, because IT WAS GOING TO BE IN LIVING COLOR!!!! Imagine my surprise, when the first and last part WERE STILL IN BLACK AND WHITE!?!?!?!?!?!?!
WHAT THE ACTUAL F**K!!!!!!?????
I guess only Oz gets to be in color. Any of you who live in Kansas…is it still that way?
No matter…we just need to kill a little time until next Sunday when The Wizard of Wu will come to you in several parts, followed by A Halloween Carol (starring PINKY!!!!)
Let’s see what comes up from the archive wayback machine for today!
Will Bob ever learn NOT to turn his back on the panda kindergarten? No, we didn’t think so, either.I have extra frosting!another cartoon inspired by real news!Thanks again to Henry Nicholls for alerting me to this storyInspector Panda says, “Know the signs of cuppycake dependency”Legalize cake today! Prevent illicit cuppycake activities.All salute the sacred cuppycake!
A quick note about Fezbook: as you all know, on Fezbook, I am Bob T Panda, a claim I can not actually substantiate with any actual documentation. Should the powers that be ever find me out, or if I lose my account to some foul hacker, I will not be able to get my account back without revealing my true identity. I do not want to do this, since the powers that be have proved themselves to be soulless cretins who sell our private data to the highest bidder and allow actual trumpsters and fascists to spread misinformation and hateful rhetoric. If I should lose my account, I will not go back. You can always find me here or over on Twidder @pandachronicle
Yes, Frank and Mikey are home from their Alaskan adventure, (Mei Xiang: wait a minute…what do you mean by HOME????) Six and Sebben are back in PandaLanta, and Bebe Maurice has returned to France to meet his petite zizzies and turn them into internationally renowned painting models!
Never a dull moment!
You might be thinking: What could they possibly be unpacking?
Silly you! Their pajamas, of course! What! Do you think they sleep au natural???? We may be animals but we’re not SAVAGES!!!!
I just realized that next Sunday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! So, of course I will be re-running the Mr. Wu the Pirate ‘toons! Prepare to talk like a Pirate!
Ever since I discovered that Mei Xiang and Lun Lun are half sisters, it has opened my eyes to the relationship between Six and Sebben. How is that, you might wonder…
Funny you should ask…
Now you know why I keep my old style dial phone/landline around! It comes in very handy for those annoying robocalls!
Oh those panda sisters!
A brief procedural note, I had to take down the felty panda page because it wasn’t working correctly. You can still request and order felty pandas. I will try to highlight some here on the main page I try to rebuild a page that actually works! Just remember, my tech knowledge is shallow yet narrow!
Till next time! Be the Bear Bob T Panda
The Bikkiesaurus! Available in 3 colors (I like the blue the best, but also available in Yellow and red- scale colors will vary)The red and blue fibers are custom dyed by me! The Bikkiesaurus is available for $64 including shipping all on his own, or for $85 with Bankypigasaurus and the Mr. Bunasaurus! (also including shipping)
Let’s see now…who has a birthday season coming up?
Of course, it is the DC panda kids birthday season, conveniently on August 21, 22, and 23! (Pinky: dat’s da most important one!) So let’s get right to it!
Could Mama Mei Xiang really be contemplating letting Pinky loose on the pandy kindy?I keep hearing the song “bears on the Run” going through my head…the ski run, that is!Oh dear….are you going to leave her there?If you think that maybe elephants never forget, they have nothing on pandas.Is this any way to treat our Nation’s most adorable icon?Now where did that cat go?
Pinky does seem to be very well represented in The Panda Chronicles ‘toon library! How did that happen? But into each panda princess’s life, sometimes there is a disturbance in the force!
He’s small for now, but Bubba Bei Bei is shaping up to be a whole lot of panda!
Well, that’s all for now! ‘Toon in next week for more new ‘toons (mebbee they might be a tad late, as this is a big art show weekend) and next Sunday for more of our celebration of Panda Birthday Season! If you are on Facebook, you may enjoy following Patricia Rice’s thread of panda histories for their birthday seasons.
Just a bit of real panda world news! Huan Huan, French panda extraordinaire, and perhaps the direct descendent of Minette, the panda who became a world famous model of all the impressionists, has safely had twins! Four years almost to the day after the birth of Bebe Maurice…um…I mean Yuan Meng, Huan Huan had what are believed to be twin girls! We eagerly await their debut in the Panda Chronicles!
But now…back to the events taking place in the DC House of Pandas!
Bikkie is such a cheerful little panda! And so thoughtful!
There is so much going on, most of which I really don’t even want to think about: the ongoing surge in coronavirus, brought on, at least in part by the unwillingness of a sizable portion of the population that could get vaccinated, but won’t. The cancer death of another acquaintance, the continuing (and escalating) dangerous lies about the election and subsequent attempted coup.
And MAYBE I did not acknowledge a certain little panda princess’s birthday on the actual day…
Sigh…
Meanwhile, it is now birthday month for the trio from DC, the offspring of the Xiang Tian Clan, so I guess all of the Sunday roundups for the entire month will have to be about them!
Gee…I wonder if I have any ‘toons about Pinky...#ClapLouder
Pinky tests her powers….oops.Oh Princess Pinky, mom has a trick or two up her paw, I think…Pinky is VERY powerful. Be afraid, be very afraid, Mr Wu.You say you want a resolution, well, you know, it is hard to change a bear….
And, of course, one of my personal favorites…
Pinky answers difficult questions from the press in her own way.
Maybe by the time this hits the cyber waves, Huan Huan will have gifted us with a pair of cubby siblings to BeBe Maurice! If not, this will give you some reading material while you wait!
I don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner, but you can’t have “Zoom Meetings” without the ZOO!
Six and Sebben have gotten their first Panda Scout merit badges!!!
There are so many stories to get to! And I’ve left Frank and Mikey wandering around Alaska, looking for their family. Sigh…I’m sure I’ll track them down…eventually.
Meanwhile, western Washington is experiencing record temperatures! Stay cool, everyone!
