No matter how old I get, September always means back to school, or at least back to work full steam ahead. We at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire are very glad to see the panda kindergarten back in session. Very, very glad.
I’m sure lots of people are happy to see students head back to school.
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda
In a recent post by Henry Nicholls, author of The Way of the Panda, he talked about the upcoming panda census. The various methods for counting wild pandas are fairly, well, quite frankly, some of them are just gross. We at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire feel we have a better idea. Just mail out the forms to the pandas and let them fill them out. Don’t have their addresses? Just leave them where pandas are sure to find them.
Ok, well, maybe not.
We thought it would be a good idea to re-run a quiz we gave last year in honor of the panda census. Find out right now how far your panda obsession has gone!
Please answer the questions as honestly as possible as this will go on your permanent record.
1. How many stuffed pandas do you now own?
a) Oh, just a couple.
b) You can still see parts of my bed
c) None of your business
2. What percentage of your friends are now sending you pictures of pandas, panda cards or emails with pictures of the earthquake pandas?
a) 10%
b) 25%
c)I have no friends anymore, except for pandas, which all love me.
3. What portion of your time do you spend thinking about pandas?
a) Just when I have my coffee in the morning.
b) Only when I’m awake.
c) What else could I possibly want to think about?
3. Do you feel that your obssession with pandas is interfering with your daily life and ability to earn a living?
a) No, no, it’s no problem. Just talk amongst yourselves, while I look at pictures of earthquake pandas.
b) None of your business.
c) No, the cardboard box that I now live in is quite comfortable and I’ve drawn pictures of pandas all over the inside.
Hope this little quiz has been instructive!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Just a quick note to let you know that I am now famous. OK well, maybe not completely famous, but Sue Frause interviewed me for her Seattle Post Intelligencer blog on Life on Whidbey Island. Here’s the link: http://blog.seattlepi.com/whidbey
Rumor has it that my cartoon-ographer is working on a new cartoon today!
Till then,
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Just a quick note to let you know that I am now famous. OK well, maybe not completely famous, but Sue Frause interviewed me for her Seattle Post Intelligencer blog on Life on Whidbey Island. Here’s the link: http://blog.seattlepi.com/whidbey
Rumor has it that my cartoon-ographer is working on a new cartoon today!
Till then,
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
I have always had a difficult relationship with technology. (And yet, here I am, on a blog! Go figure). Anyway, I was one of the last people I know to join the computer generation. I think I know at least two other hold-outs, but they are bigger old farts than me. I can say that because they will never read this, and besides, they have admitted to this old fartiness already.
I think pandas should have their own radio station. you could call it…hmmm. how about the initials N.P.R.?
Think of all the shows that could be hosted by pandas…
Till next time…
Be the Bear!
I have always had a difficult relationship with technology. (And yet, here I am, on a blog! Go figure). Anyway, I was one of the last people I know to join the computer generation. I think I know at least two other hold-outs, but they are bigger old farts than me. I can say that because they will never read this, and besides, they have admitted to this old fartiness already.
I think pandas should have their own radio station. you could call it…hmmm. how about the initials N.P.R.?
Think of all the shows that could be hosted by pandas…
Till next time…
Be the Bear!
So, now that the panda revolution had begun, friends started giving me several things. One was stuffed pandas and anything related to pandas. The other was articles about pandas who attacked people. One article was about a man who was so overwhelmed by the pandas cuteness, he had to climb the fence to hug him. Bad idea. so of course, I thought to myself: “Hmmm… now if I were a panda that had just attacked someone who had tried to hug me, what would I do? Go on a talk show, of course!”
And then of course, there would have to be protest marches in support of Bob.
and OF COURSE, after Bob got out of prison, he would sing about his unjust imprisonment in a coffee house!
Be the Bear!
Bob T Panda
An overriding theme in my work here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire is that of playing with current events or making fun (!) of cliche phrases. And when you are obsessed with pandas the sequence goes like this: The right to bear arms> the right to arm bears> stressed out pandas with guns. What could be simpler? (or more absurd?) and of course, we at ICPS are all about absurd.
Tomorrow: What about “Panda Cars”?
Be the Bear!
An overriding theme in my work here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire is that of playing with current events or making fun (!) of cliche phrases. And when you are obsessed with pandas the sequence goes like this: The right to bear arms> the right to arm bears> stressed out pandas with guns. What could be simpler? (or more absurd?) and of course, we at ICPS are all about absurd.
Tomorrow: What about “Panda Cars”?
Be the Bear!
We had to do one more earthquake related cartoon and this one plumbs the depths of bad taste. Hope you like it.
Like many who grew up in the 1950’s and 60’s, I had a Barbie Doll and her friend Midge, and her dog fido. I always wanted Barbie’s dream car, but I never got one. I guess this cartoon is a reaction to that childhood depridation. Or something like that. Or just another excuse to make fun of stuff.
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda.