Here’s another of Pinky’s greatest hits, in celebration of her first birthday!
Beware, the power of the paw!
Bear the bear!
Bob T. Panda
All Pinky, all the Time…
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Princess Pinky Bao Bao has a birthday…
Yes, we are heading into what we like to call “high birthday season” around here, which is the week of your actual birthday. While Pinky Bao Bao’s ACTUAL birthday is not till next Saturday, you can excuse her (and us) for getting a little excited about it, and getting an early start.
So, to get you in the mood, here are some of her feature presentation cartoons from her first year of life in The Panda Chronicles.
Such a little darling! How could her big brother resist spoiling her?
Pinky tests her powers….
oops.
Oh Princess Pinky, mom has a trick or two up her paw, I think…
You say you want a resolution, well, you know, it is hard to change a bear….
Stay tuned for more Pinky next week (sort of a Pinky film festival, you know?)
Meanwhile back at the panda ranch, we were inspired by the upcoming Dot Day celebration on September 15th to create a new ‘Celebridot.” Don’t know what Dot Day is? International Dot Day is a celebration of creativity that was inspired by Peter H. Reynolds’ book “The Dot”. This site is filled with other authors, illustrators, and celebrities who share in the dream of a more creative world. (from the Celebridots website) You can learn more about Dot Day here.
There has been much on the news and in social media this week about depression, in the wake of Robin Williams’ death. Creative people are often prone to depression. While engaging in creative pursuits cannot stop or eliminate depression and despair, having a creative outlet can help to channel these feelings, and give a person a little breathing space till the blackness lifts. I am here today, partly because I had a creative outlet, and my creativity was encouraged to grow by some teachers and other adults in my life. Do check out the Dot Day website, and then see if there is something you can contribute. Even encouraging one child you know makes a difference in the world.
My dot for 2014. What a great tradition!
Be the bear!
Bob T. Panda
The Case of the Picturesque Panda: Our story so far…
There has been great rejoicing in Panda-ville this week! Panda triplets have been born in China and three weeks later all are still surviving. Princess Pinky Bao Bao’s 1st birthday approaches, the Atlanta Meihem sisters have turned one year old, as has Bai Yun’s great granddaughter, Princess Dumpling, resident of Taipei. And let us not forget Mr. Wu who has just turned two!
Not only that, I am up to Episode 10 in Inspector Panda’s mystery! Huzzah! In honor of all the Panda happiness going around, I am going to post the ENTIRE SERIES SO FAR, so that you don’t have to go linking about, possibly missing an episode or three along the way.
So, without further ado, here’s Inspector Panda (start nourish music soundtrack here:)
If “trouble” ever had a proper name, that name is Babette de Panda…
When a panda has a problem, you know where to turn…Inspector Panda, I presume.
…and so the story begins…
…of a young panda’s arrival in France, and all that followed…
Why DOES Mr Wu have a piece of tape on his right ear?
Let’s see who stayed awake during art history classes!
Oh, that Mr Wu is a clever little bear! Is Madame du Panda trying to pull a fast one?
Is this plot thickening, or what?
I don’t know about you, but I think this document is VERY suspicious!
Mr Wu observes an interesting detail….
Mr Wu is still skeptical of Babette’s story…
“fuggedabout the bleeping tape!”
Oh that Babette!
Inspector Panda: the bear with the clues…
The search for clues begins…
…but Mr Wu still has a lot to learn when it comes to detecting.
Many thanks to panda fans who are enjoying and sharing panda satire around the inter-webs! Keep up the good work. Also a sincere pandy welcome to Anna and hubby Patrick, new Panda Chronicle fans that I met whilst at a family wedding on Whidbey Island last weekend. Yes! That’s you!
See you all on Friday (of the fabulous furry variety!) when we have a special tribute to Pinky, in celebration of her upcoming birthday! Huzzah!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Inspector Panda is Back!
Oh yes, a week without Inspector Panda is a sad thing indeed. But he is back!
For those of you who are just joining this tale of mystery, intrigue, and cuppycakes, here are links to earlier episodes: Episode 1: here, Episode 2: here, and Episode 3: here. Episode 4 & 5; Episode 6; and Episode 7 & Episode 8.
Now! On to episode 9!
Oh that Babette!
Inspector Panda: the bear with the clues…
I can hardly wait! Tune in next week, same time, same place, for the next exciting episode! But don’t forget Fabulous Furry Friday, not to mention Some Panda-or-other Sunday! A person needs more than one dose of panda satire to get through the week, don’t you think?
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
A Fabulous Furry Friday Salute…
…to Mr Wu!
Oh Mr Wu,
So now you are two,
You live at the zoo
And we’re glad that you do.
Mr Wu got to celebrate his 2nd birthday, and all his Pan Diego panda friends were there to watch him blow out the candles on his cake. One of Mr Wu’s particular friends, Helene Hoffman, took a most fabulous picture of Mr Wu and she kindly allowed me to share it with you here:
Mr Wu, turning two, (c) 2014 Helene Hoffman, used by permission.
I mean, what did I tell you about pandas and cake? Do you believe me NOW???? As you can see, Mr Wu is quite excited about his cake, and also that he doesn’t have to share it with anyone.
And now, as a special treat, and in honor of the Wu self, we bring you the entire start to finish Mr Wu Joins the circus!!!! Huzzah! Happy Fabulous Furry Friday! (and we would be extremely negligent if we didn’t point out that ALL the Mr Wu adventures, starting with his earliest days in the nursery right up until and including when he battles the forces of panda popularity domination [aka Princess Pinky] can be found in The Panda Chronicles Book 4: The Book of Wu.) Get one today for your very own!
And now, I hope you have your popcorn and bootinis ready because here we go!
Fanmail from some Flounder?
Voices in the night, a ladder, a letter…adios…
“Are we there, yet?”
This is a case for…Inspector Panda!
episode 5
episode 6
episode 7
episode 8
episode 9
episode 10
episode 11
episode 12
episode 13
episode 14
episode 15
…and it all ends with Mr Wu’s Birthday party! Huzzah!
I hope you have enjoyed this presentation of Mr Wu Joins the Circus, (so like, now will you go buy my book?)
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Happy Birfday, Mr Wu!
If A Cuppycake Falls in the Forest…
…and there is no one there to hear it, who gets to eat the cuppycake?
Well, this may be a first for the Panda Chronicles, a cartoon with no pandas! However, this panda-less tale comes to us from none other than panda chronicler par excellence`, Henry Nicholls, Author of The Way of the Panda. Henry was kind enough to alert me to the story of a bear in Alaska, who followed his nose to a cuppycake birthday party.
I am not making (some of) this up.
Cuppycakes are to bears as toast is to otters.
And although there are no pandas in this particular episode, Mr B. Bear has agreed to appear on the Mehitabel Tonite! Show next week, to talk about his traumatic ordeal. Won’t that be fun?
And while you are thinking about cuppycakes, I think you should hop (or galumph, depending on how many cuppycakes you have eaten today) on over to V Something Speaks and read the first recipe of The Panda Chronicles Cuppycake Cookbook! It celebrates Princess Pinky, who as everyone knows, is having her first birthday next month.
And, um…Mr Wu has his birthday next week. We haven’t forgotten you, Mr Wu. You will always be number one with me!
Woe is Wu…upstaged by a bunch of gurls!
You might want to watch the San Diego Zoo pandacam on Tuesday morning, for Mr Wu’s birthday party. Last year his girlfriends at the zoo made him an absolutely spectacular cake for his first birthday, and I’m sure they will attempt to out-do themselves this year.
I hope you are off to a panda-ful week!
Be the Bear (any kind of bear, really!)
Bob T. Panda
A Friday so Fabulous and Furry…
…that we can hardly contain our excitement! We are in the run-up to one of the most exciting days of the year!
Yes, I am referring to Mr Wu’s SECOND BIRTHDAY!!!!!! Will he take a bath to celebrate the occasion? Don’t count on it. But it’s not a problem, since we are on the interweb, and Mr Wu is happily, if fragrantly, in Pandiego!
Here are a few of my favorite cartoons about Mr Wu. If you want more Wu, more of the time, I suggest you acquire a copy of the fourth Panda Chronicles collection: The Panda Chronicles Book 4: The Book of Wu!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of BooBeer!
“Wu calls his dance, ‘Ode to a Weaf’ “
Mr Wu speaks out! Huzzah for our now year old twins in Zoo Atlanta!
Fanmail from some Flounder?
Hope you are getting lots of cuppycakes ready to celebrate with Mr Wu on his actual birthday on Tuesday July 29th! And BTW this week is National Zookeepers week, so let’s put our paws together for all of Mr Wu’s girlfriends, and the nannykeepers that keep Pinky and the Meihems in line. A special mention should go out to the panda house folks at Zoo Atlanta, for their totally awesome animal care that they accomplished when Lun Lun surprised them (and apparently herself) with twins!
And a further bit of news from the Panda Publishing front, get a first look (not to mention first taste,) of what we have up our sleeves…er…paws with The Panda Chronicles Cuppycake Cookbook, coming to you…um…eventually from the paws of panda aficionado and chef du cuppycake, Vicky Vladic over at her blog, V Something Speaks. She shares the first recipe from the book, celebrating our very own birthday girl-to-be, Princess Pinky.
If you want to know when this book will be a reality, subscribe to this blog (and/or V Something Speaks too!) and you will know before anyone else! You could really help us out if you test recipes as she shares them, and let us know how they worked for you. You can also follow me on twitter @pandachronicle where I’m sure I will be telling all I know!
Huzzah!
Be the Bear and have a fabulous cuppycake filled weekend!
Bob T. Panda
They are watching you!
Once again, news from the real world inspires me with tales of pandas doing stuff that they shouldn’t be doing. Thanks to Panda-spondant Charlene J. for alerting me to the story on unmanned drones being used to track wild pandas. We are still working on the story about the bear that fell through a skylight in Alaska, (NOT a panda, I might point out) in a brazen attempt to gobble up cuppycakes at a birthday party. Dude! Just ring the bell! I’m sure they would ask you in if you would just ask politely!
Every move you make, we’ll be watching you!
This is an excellent learning opportunity for the panda kindergarten! I mean learning about science and wild pandas. What did you think I meant?
Be the bear!
Bob T Panda
And be sure to tune in next time when Inspector Panda returns!
Fabulous Furry Friday returns!
Friday already? Where does the week go? There has been lots going on and much of it has been stories from the real world, that make us wonder how the human race has survived for this long. (And you thought pandas were endangered!)
Not only have people been taking selfies in perilous situations, apparently some people have torched their homes in their attempts to kill spiders or get rid of snakes. One fire official commented, “Fire is not the method to use to kill spiders.” You can be sure that the investigative team here at The Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire will be looking into this.
For now, let’s revisit some of the …um..questionable situations the panda kindergarten has gotten into.
Huzzah! it’s the year of the Dragon!
What do you mean by “was?”
Always read the directions…
have a great weekend, and remember, be careful while taking selfies!
Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda
Selfies at The Running of the Bulls
Oh, this “selfies in perilous situations” craze is getting totally out of hand. First tiger selfies, then selfies at the Tour de France, and now, oh…i can barely bear to think about it.
Selfies at the running of the bulls. I am not making this up.
AAAAAAhhhHHHHHH!
Maybe it would be better to take a selfie at the running of the pandas.
What makes a panda run? Cuppycakes, of course!!!!
I smell frosting!
Meanwhile, I’ve made another guest post appearance, this time over at VSomethingSpeaks. Check it out for more insight into the Way of the Panda (Satire). (sorry, Henry!)
Hope you enjoyed the Meihem twins special birthday ‘toon yesterday! I suppose I will have to do something special for Princess Pinky now, huh?
Be the Bear,
Bob T Panda