Category Archives: the essential pandaness of being

It’s Fabulous Furry Friday!

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Well, I had hoped to bring you a new cartoon today, but I am still having technical difficulties with getting the computer to recognize the scanner.  I did get the software installed appropriately, because it now shows up in the applications folder, but despite the restarting and overbooting and unplugging and reconnecting of the components, it still says ; you are so scr%##92@d. in the error message.

or something like that.

Well, the big news today is that the winners of the international Giant Panda Zoo Awards for 2013 were announced this morning right at the home of the Twinkies at Zoo Atlanta, and let me tell you, there is some grumbling from other quarters if you know what I mean! The Twinkies won the coveted “Cub of the Year” award, and all I can say is it’s a very good thing that mama Mei hid Princess Pinky’s magical wand, or I think she would’ve marched her fuzzy little princess self down to Atlanta, and given them the biggest >poof< since General Sherman came through town.

Bao Bao, Smithsonian Magazine cover

Beware, the power of the paw! At least Pinky is a cover girl!!!!

Not only that, but…and I can hardly say this without shaking in my boots, but Mr Wu did NOT win the Panda Personality of the Year award.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?????? Mr. Wu is not speaking to reporters this morning, as he needs to…um…collect himself.

mr wu speaks out.

Is this a personality or what?

Mr Wu tries to take charge

Uh oh. All is not well in Pandyland!

I’m hoping I can resolve my computer issues over the weekend, because, hello? I have NEW cartoons to post, so anyone who can give me some advice that actually works will be rewarded. (not with money, mind you, because, let’s face it, panda satire is not the most lucrative profession in the world. But I could send you some panda goodies!)

Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda

Emergency, Will Robinson, Emergency!

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Or was that “Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!” ?

Due to technical difficulties, I was not able to scan today’s cartoon, and so there will be a rerun.

See, what happened is, that I finally had to give up my old operating system on my computer, which was operating on “Tigger” and I didn’t want to go to the new, new operating system, because it’s getting such crappy reviews, AND my scanner won’t work with it at all, so I compromised on Snow Leopard because it’s not so very different from Tigger.  And every thing would work. Ha!

So.

I downloaded the new and appropriate “driver” (whatever the heck THAT is) and now it says that my scanner isn’t on or connected, when it jolly well is.

Where is Princess Pinky and her magical wand when I need her?

Princess Pinky helps with new years resolutions

You say you want a resolution, well, you know, it is hard to change a bear….

Bao Bao in pajamas

Tell me a story, mommy!

sigh….

being the non technological bear.
Bob T Panda

 

He’s leaving home…

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We knew it was coming: the trauma of sweet Yun Zi going off to China, after 4 years living with mom, dad, and his self absorbed little brother.  Part of the deal we make with China is that all cubs born here get re-patriated to China, after they reach 2-4 years of age.  We don’t welcome it, but there is a good reason for it.  Because of the small captive population of pandas, It’s important that we don’t have  pairings between relatives that are too close.

We recently got word that he’ll be leaving on January 11th, just a few days away. Maybe he’ll leave his little brother his baseball cap.

Yun Zi leaves for China

There’s no place like home…

Just because it’s the way things are, doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of it.

Be the bear,
Bob T. Panda

 

Hey! Fabulous Furry Friday is back! Panda on…

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31 days of pandas was fun and a big success, IMHO, (don’t cha just love how young and hip I sound when I use those twitter/IM all cap-letters thingies?  yeah, me neither.) It was really fun to dive deep into some story lines, and not keep people waiting for a week or more

to
see
what
was
going
to
happen.

But, I can’t keep that up all year, and get anything else done, like getting the Book of Wu ready to go to print. And other stuff, which will be revealed for the first time in my upcoming newsletter…um…hopefully next week. It’s all good, it’s all fun, and it’s all pandas! Huzzah!

Before I share this weeks encore presentations with you, I want to take a minute to say a fond farewell, to someone who was a regular follower and commenter here at The Panda Chronicles, and also on other panda forums around the web.  She went by the name Grammmie Cooper, and yes, that was with 3 ‘m’s’. I did not know her particulars, other than it was clear from her notes to me, that she was quite elderly, in poor health off and on, and her main joy in life was watching the pandas. Real pandas, I mean, on the various panda cams around the world. She was an early, enthusiastic supporter of my cartoons, and commented frequently.  She was not afraid to tell me that she thought I was stepping out of line when I would let young Mr Wu go off carousing with the panda kindergarten, and she was just as willing to express her delight with other drawings.   She got great joy and comfort from watching pandas. If there is any kind of afterlife, I’d like to think that pandas are there, too, bringing comfort and joy to the inhabitants, teaching people the art of somersaulting down a grassy slope, and then sitting around eating cuppycakes.

Panda on, Grammmie.

And now, let there be pandas!

National Zoo cub makes mom Mei Xiang disappear

Pinky wanted me to run these cartoons again!

Princess Pinky is fooled by Mei Xiang at the National Zoo

Oh Princess Pinky, mom has a trick or two up her paw, I think…

Bao Bao, Smithsonian Magazine cover

Beware, the power of the paw!

 

 

Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda

Day 27: It’s a WUnderful Life, episode five

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Oh poor Mr Wu…it is finally beginning  to dawn on him, just HOW awful a world with no new panda cubs could be. And isn’t that a great segue into a word from one of our sponsors?

As we reach the end of the year, many organizations are filling the airways and our mailboxes with appeals for end of the year tax deductible donations.  Please indulge me in making a plug for one of my favorites, Pandas International. Despite the fact that I spend most of my time here making fun of pandas and putting them in situations where you would not find a real panda, Pandas International has long been a follower and supporter of my work. Go Figure! So as you make your decisions on charitable contributions in the waning days of 2013, consider lending a paw to Pandas International.  After all, without pandas, there could be no panda satire.

And now, on with the show and the next thrilling episode of, It’s a WUnderful Life!

it's a wonderful life parody

You won’t like this, Mr Wu!

I hope you will continue to stay tuned for the next four episodes of It’s a WUnderful life! We have much pandaful stuff in store for you next year, which we hope you will stay tuned for.  2014 is going to be the year of the panda!

Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda

Just in case you haven’t turned off your computer yet,

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Have yourself a pandy little Christmas....

Have yourself a pandy little Christmas….

Thank you, each and every one.

With gratitude and cuppycakes,
Bob T Panda, Babette de Panda, Mehitabel the cat, Mr Wu, Binky, Pinky and don’t forget the Twinkies and the panda kindergarten.

Bringing Culture to the Panda Kindergarten

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You can lead a horse to water, or as Dorothy Parker once said, You can lead a…oh well, um…never mind about that. Bob has decided to hold some cultural events for the panda kindergarten, in hopes of civilizing them a bit.

Ha ha.

panda poetry slam

The cake abides….

I will…be…the cake. I love poetry, don’t you?

Be the …cake!

Bob T. Panda

No Princess Pinky :o( Huzzah! It’s the Twinkies!

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What with all the attention Princess Pinky has been getting in this cartoon, the Atlanta Twinkies feel they have been slighted.  get in line behind Mr. Wu, fellas.  You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Today, however, is Pinky-less. apologies to her fans.

Atlanta twin panda cubs Mei Lun and Mei Huan and older prother Po

Huzzah! a guest appearance by little Po!

Me me me! Gimmeee!

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda