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Wowee! It was a really big day here yesterday!

Well, enough with the sad panda faces. One of the things that I love about pandas (besides being one myself) is that pandas never give up, no matter how hard things get. A late (as in gone from this earth) gardener friend had a theory about plants. She said that they entice you with their beauty or their fragrance, so that you would get down in the dirt and do stuff for them like water or weed around them. Maybe the plant was one that provided food, but mostly they had no purpose but to be beautiful, and they made that work for them so that you, the gardener, would support their existence.

Pandas are a little like that. They are the very definition of high maintenance girl friends. (Take Babette de Panda for instance…) It is really, really expensive to have a panda around, but it’s worth it! Well, I would say that, wouldn’t I? The recent tragic loss at the National Zoo in Washington DC underscores just how delicate they are as newborns. But those which survive bring enjoyment and grace in ways which can’t be measured.

OK. Now let’s get funny!

Bob T. Panda is running for president! Huzzah! Let’s see what the Cake Party has to offer to the American voter!

Vote for Bob!

And did I mention that we have now had over 40,000 visits to the pandas here at The Panda Chronicles? Stay tuned during this election season for more from the party of pandas! There will be cake! Huzzah!

Be the Bear,

Bob T. Panda

Good-bye, little panda…..

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OK, I’ll stop now…..

We will go back to our regular program of panda satire very soon. Just had to get this one out first.

Be the Bear

Bob T. Panda

We interrupt our regularly scheduled hilarity for this message

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If you are not aware already, the nation’s (well this nation anyway) newest panda ceased to be after only 6 days on the planet. We send inner pandy thoughts to Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and all the staff at the National Zoo in Washington DC. They should know that the nation’s panda faithful mourn with them.

We know that these things happen…nature knows what it is doing, but it doesn’t make us any less sad. We will go back to being funny tomorrow.

Till then,

Be the bear.

Bob T. Panda and the entire menage at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire.

Babette de Panda has a thing or two to say….

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Well it has been quite the trill, and it’s not…quite…over.

There are about 40 hours to go until my project closes on Kickstarter, so if you haven’t signed up to get a book or a poster or Bob T. Panda for President bumper stickers, there is still time. If you already are a supporter, now you get to sit back or jump around the room yelling “HUZZAH!!!!!! BRING ON THE CUPPYCAKES.!!!” Your work is done, at least for now. Later you will have to tell me where to send all of your goodies, but that isn’t for a few days. Oh yeah, and pay your credit card bill that Amazon will so sweetly send to you, but again, that is later.

Right now, Babette has a few words to say to you and I’m sure she wants to thank you for supporting my project, don’t you, Babette? Babette?

Babette and Bee, the Bear have a “discussion”

I am working on setting up the book even as we speak, but I want to thank the faithful followers of The Panda Chronicles once again. I really could not have done it without you, and I just want you to know that the panda kindergarten PROMISES there will be NO monkey business when they pack and ship your books to you. Really. They pinky swore and everything!

Well, now maybe we can quit spending all out time jumping up and down and watching the numbers change, and get some more new cartoons done, eh?

Be the bear!

Bob T. Panda

Oh, yeah….Did we mention that we have reached 39,000 visits? Huzzah! I’m popular! finally! Just goes to show you that it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.

Babette de Panda has a thing or two to say….

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Well it has been quite the trill, and it’s not…quite…over.

Right now, Babette has a few words to say to you and I’m sure she wants to thank you for supporting my project, don’t you, Babette? Babette?

Babette and Bee, the Bear have a “discussion”

Well, now maybe we can quit spending all out time jumping up and down and watching the numbers change, and get some more new cartoons done, eh?

Be the bear!

Bob T. Panda

Oh, yeah….Did we mention that we have reached 39,000 visits? Huzzah! I’m popular! finally! Just goes to show you that it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.

Huzzah, Huzzah! A Panda is Born!

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The pandasphere is buzzing with the news that Mei Xiang of the National Zoo in Washington D.C. has just exceeded expectations and produced a brand new bouncing baby panda! She has not had a cub since her first little miracle bear 7 years ago, when Tai Shan, darling of the pandaratti, was born. He moved to China in January of 2010 and we have been waiting and hoping ever since that Mei would rise to the occasion once again! Huzzah!

Here’s the thing about panda reproduction: It’s really kind of tricky. A female panda is only in season for between 24 and 72 hours in a YEAR, and then you can’t distinguish between a real pregnancy and a pseudo-pregnancy until, HEY! look at that! there’s a cub! Top that off with the fact that pandas are really …well…chubby to begin with, and a cub at birth weighs about 1/4 pound. Could you tell if a panda was preggers just by looking at her? I don’t think so….

will the pitter patter of little paws soon follow?

Congratulations, once again to Mei Xiang, husband Tian Tian, and of course all the nanny keepers at the National Zoo! It is a happy day indeed.

Meanwhile, back at the Kickstarter ranch, we need at least $434 to make our goal by this thursday at noon. If you were waiting until the last minute, that last minute is here now! If only 18 more people pledge $25, the first book of the Panda Chronicles will be a reality! Huzzah!

This is a day to be the bear!

Bob T. Panda

The Panda Kindergarten is now in session….

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I always like September, well, at least now that I don’t actually HAVE to go back to school, that is, but it still, oh these many years later, (don’t ask) gives me a burst of energy to get back into the studio and actually get something done. The panda kindergarten is no exception and they absolutely PROMISE to be much better behaved this year. (Although I think I saw some paws crossed behind their backs when they said that.)

Meanwhile, back at the Kickstarter ranch, we are at 86% with only 6 days to go! For those of you not following or yet on board with the Kickstarter project (ahem) hope you will check it out, because we have big, pandy plans here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire! I’d like to unveil the third in the triumvirate of panda posters (starting with “30 days of Pandas,” moving on to “Bee, the Bear,” and now we present:

Fezbook: The Mobile App!

What could be more fun than a car full of pandas?

and now, for our “back to school cartoon feature”, we present the panda kindergarten in “Classroom Follies!”

Huzzah!

“Class….Claaaas….CLASS!!!!!!!!!

Bee, the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

To Bee, or not to Bee…that is the bear!

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The path of creativity is usually a twisting path. You just never know what thing you see or read or hear, that will spark a connection, and I am no exception to this process. For instance, my Scottish Panda cartoons, which had some Shakespearian inspiration, in turn sparked my brother’s imagination and resulted in his 31 plays in 31 days project, The Scottish Panda Plays.

When David Neel Of Island Apiaries offered an add on bonus of honey to my Kickstarter project (now in it’s last 6 days! Visit it before it’s too late!) I started thinking about bees and bears and how they both started with the letter ‘B’ and came up with Bee, the Bear. (OK, it seemed like an obvious connection to me!) Bee was an instant hit when I posted her picture on facebook and so I decided (well, actually, she insisted) to make a poster for her.

Bee, the Bear.

Meanwhile our Kickstarter project is at 80% with only 6 more days to go! If you’ve already supported it, many, many thanks (and tell all your humor loving friends) and if you haven’t you know what to do!

Bee, the Bear says Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

9 Days to Go and it’s No Teddy Bears’ Picnic!