A dive into the archives to revisit past sightings…
Will Nixon’s Ghost return yet again? What do you think?
Be Brave
Panda On
Bob T Panda
Be Brave
Panda On
Bob T Panda
Panda On
Bob T Panda
“I almost brought down Democracy, and all I got was this lousy tee-shirt.”
~Richard Nixon (attributed)
Haven’t we heard enough from this guy? Don’t we have enough of our own problems?
Be the Bear
Don’t forget to VOTE
Bob T Panda
Well, this is certainly the pot calling the kettle a crook, isn’t it? It’s hard not to simultaneously feel like the current constitutional crisis has echoes of the Watergate and Nixon scandals, and also that Nixon’s crimes were quaint. (Hint: they weren’t, but at least in that era there was still some sense that the constitutional checks and balances would keep the country from completely going off the rails.)
That bad, huh?
Be the Bear
#PandasWillBeWarriors
Bob T Panda
It’s true. Sometimes I just can’t help being just the tiniest bit silly (As if you hadn’t noticed) but I crack myself up whenever I call Ling Ling and Tsing Tsing “the Nixon Pandas.” It’s really not my fault. In The Way of the Panda, that’s how writer Henry Nicholls refers to them in the chapter about panda diplomacy. Sometimes I really am NOT making things up. (but only rarely) Anyway, there have been several stories and articles floating around the internet about the 40th anniversary of Ling Ling and Tsing Tsing arriving in Washington D.C.
I hereby give you my version of the panda historical events 40 years ago this week.
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
BTW: less than 200 visits are needed to bring my total views to 25,000! Invite your friends to play with the pandas!
It was 40 years ago today,
Richard Nixon brought the bears to stay,
So let me introduce to you,
the one and only Bobby T….
Sargent Panda’s Happy Panda Band!
What would I do, if I ran out of boo’,
Would I have to have a cuppycake?
OK, I got it out of my system now….
And a quick note of complete self involvement here, I’m about to reach 25,000 visits to The Panda Chronicles, and I couldn’t have done it without YOU, the panda satire fans around the world! So huzzah! (well, maybe I could have done it, but my guess is that I would have to spend all my time visiting this blog from a lot of different computers.) Thanks for stopping by to play with the pandas!
And on to further panda business (that’s sort of like monkey business, except for it’s pandas instead of monkeys) I’ve finished my revisions for Pandamorphosis and am ready to start sending it out again to publishers. Here’s one of the new drawings:
Till next time,
Be the Bear!