…brings you all Pinky, all the time!
Having just returned from high level meetings with Princess Pinky herself, (OK, so she was up in the hemlock tree most of the time) I thought it only right and proper that she gets to be the star of today’s cartoon.
Send cuppycakes and magical wands!
Other exciting panda (satire) news is just around the corner! Till next time,don’t touch that dial!
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda
Alert reader Marie Lamb sent me this quiz via fezbook, because as a loyal reader of The Panda Chronicles, she knows that cuppycakes are near and dear to all the pandas here. Of course it inspired a cartoon. How could it not?
I have extra frosting!
(By the way, when I took the quiz, it turns out that I am a lemon cuppycake)
Sigh….
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda
Ah, what to post, what to post…that is the question. Time to get out the darts and throw it at my computer screen and see where it sticks.
Can you calibrate the cuppycake?
I am such a dork.
I know… I will take this opportunity to share these cartoons I did for Pandas International, for their programs at several of their annual auction events. If you don’t already know about Pandas International, you might want to check them out and send a little support their way. They raise money to help actual pandas (as opposed to imaginary ones) and… without actual pandas, there could be no panda satire.
Think about that!
Keep being the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Oh my, I am an irresponsible panda satirist. Here I sent Pinky and the Mei-hem twins, Bert and Ernie, off on a road trip in the little yellow car to see Mr. Wu (clear on the other side of the country) and have we looked in on them since they zoomed off, leaving Mei Xiang in a cloud of dust? No we have not! (And then we wrote that terrible run on sentence…what were we thinking?)
Fortunately, thanks to GPPS (Global Panda Positioning Satellite) we have located the girls who are not quite to Pan Diego as yet.
One of the little known wonders of the world.
On the road again….
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda
Today is the day when we revisit cartoons that have relevance to items in the news. Since this is the “Panda Season of Love” and we have been focusing on our Scottish pandas, I thought a glimpse of the early days of pandas in Scotland would be in order.
Enjoy!
What could be more scottish than Pandas?
Save some pie for me!
Pand-Air…it’s the only way to travel
Be the bear!
Bob T. Panda
Last week one of my esteemed readers commented on this post of the day of “Z” with a delightful scenario based on ACTUAL PANDA COMMUNICATION from our panda neighbors to the North, Er Shun and Da Mao, currently residing in Toronto as part of the “putting pandas to work” program.
News item: Gao Gao, the San Diego zoo stud muffin and father of five, is recovering from surgery of *ahem* a delicate nature. For more information, read the San Diego Zoo blog.
Of course, this inspired me to write a cartoon, which would make even more fun of pandas (well, boy pandas anyway). Sometimes they just make it too easy for me.
I smell frosting!
If YOU have read a real news story that you think that pandas would enjoy having their way with, just send it on in a comment. don’t worry about trying to figure out what the pandas will have to say about it. We might not even comment on the story directly, but you never know what is going to trigger some panda satirical thought in my fuzzy little head. Operators are standing by to take your call.
Ha ha! George Clooney… where do those little pandas get these ideas?
Politicians misbehaving? strange cuppycake vending machines showing up on your block? Interesting trends in fashion? Pandas may be interested.
Be the Bear
and
Panda On
Bob T. panda
* Thanks and apologies to Nancy A.( who coincidentally just sold her first book! Huzzah!) for using your title, but hey! Z’s, you know?
Yes we have reached the zenith of the A to Z (some might say the nadir), the zero hour, my zombie like stare, from too many hours staring at zee computer. (talk about cheap shots!) How can I equate something that starts with “Z” to pandas? why, zoos, of course!
But, I promised you a new cartoon, didn’t I? And without any more zigzagging from zonked out cuppycake crazed pandas, here ’tis:
Zee mystery is about to begin!
But I think you need a few more cartoons to make this a worthy finale, and what could be more appropriate than a couple of episodes of ZooNooZ, the only news show that looks the same whether you spell it upside down, frontwards, backwards, or upside down and backwards! It’s like a multidirectional palindrome!
Did he really have to tell them THAT????
What happens in Vegas….. (notice the lampshade? you might want to remember that later.)
Goodnight everyone!
Thanks for letting the pandas come and play at the A to Z Blog Challenge. We now return you to our regular schedule of pandas.
Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda
They say you should never explain, and never apologize on blogs, just go about your business, but with only 4 letters left to go in the alphabet, I must (I must) throw myself on the mercy of my panda fans, and tell you that I came down with the “spring crud cold” and have not been able to hold my head up to make a new cartoon. Plus I have had to cancel my appearance on a local radio show, where I was going to talk about Kickstarter.
Alas.
But at least, I can pull something from the archives to tide you over till I feel less worse. (Today is brought to you by the letter “W” for Whoops.)
From The Wizard of Wu
Keep being the bear without me. Talk amongst yourselves.
Bob T. (cough cough) Panda
Veritable verisimilitude and vice-versa, vis-a-vis this month of alphabet charms! I vacillate between vast and vacuous vacancies in my mind.
But what does this have to do with pandas? Verily, I say verbosely, these valiant bears are valuable, to the tune of a million dollars a year rent per panda pair. Well, better vamoose, before the vandals (aka the panda kindergarten) vanish with the cuppycakes!
There is a cake in the vicinity!
See you tomorrow, hopefully with a little longer post. Time is vanishing today!
Be the Bear,
Bob T Panda
…of PANDAS!
Ultimately, we try to understand the ubiquitous appeal of Pandas. Is it their understated and unabashed cuteness that puts us under their spell? Is it their unadorned and unadulterated style that makes them the unanimous choice of untold millions of their fans? Such unassuming bears are uncanny in their unceasing, unbearable cuteness of being.
Don’t you just hate it when your refrigerator is infested by…pandas? But it’s really cute, right?
Meanwhile, I’m making a few appearances around the interweb. You can read my post comparing art to farming over at the blog of The Little Brown Farm (the place on Whidbey to meet all your cheese-y desires).
I’ve also made a recent visit to Cordelia’s Mom, Still, to talk about the inadvisability to use the excuse, but I’m too old, to start something new.
Going Undercover! (And where did that little panda get that money?
I should have posted this one yesterday, on the day of “T”, but I totally spaced it!
Keep being the bear!
Bob T. Panda