Sorry for my lack of post yesterday. The Panda Kindergarten went to hear Chris Van Allsburg and Sherman Alexie speak in Seattle at the public library. But never fear, I had pandas waiting in the wings, so both Sunday’s and today’s pandas appear this morning. The panda kindergarten was mostly well behaved on their outing, but you know the panda kindergarten. “Mostly well behaved” is as good as it gets.
Be the Bear.
Bob T. Panda
Oh, the tension is mounting! Will our fearless drawer of pandas be able to keep up with the pressure? 4 days down and 26 to go. Will 26 more pandas fit on this page? And just what is panda # 4 looking at. Tune in tomorrow!
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda
I have to admit I get this little thrill when my days visitors edge (or zoom) past 24. Thanks to all the new subscribers, past subscribers, current subscribers…
Mehitabel: “Would you please just shut up and put another post up?” OK, OK….
Here is day 2 of 30 days – 30 pandas. It’s fun so far!
So, just to set everyone’s mind at ease, the panda on the lower right has a bottle of Bamboo Soda, and not a beer! This is after all Po’s panda kindergarten classmates who are throwing a party in honor of his birthday. The panda kindergarten is naughty enough without being drunk besides!
I was recently reading a new-ish book by one of my major influences in the humor genre. I am of course, referring to Dave Barry. That’s DAVE BARRY for all you search engines out there. Heck he’s famous…he could spare a few readers who accidentally come here instead of DAVE BARRY’S website. He is one of the few humor writers that no matter how many times I read his essays, I laugh so hard stuff shoots out my nose. It is for this reason that I could never read his work on line, as I don’t want to ruin my computer keyboard. When I used to fax my cartoons to my local picture framing shop, (note: this was before I had a blog or even a computer, and I had to follow all my friends around with large stacks of cartoons and demand that they read them before I would let them go about their day) my favorite story was when Catherine (my framer with the fax machine) told me milk squirted out her nose because she laughed so hard when she read one of my cartoons. To quote DAVE BARRY, “I am not making this up.” Sometime after that, they got rid of their fax machine (coincidence? You be the judge…) so I had to get a computer and start this blog.
Miss Demure Restraint was obviously paying attention and reading the entire post, ahem….not mentioning any names here…and noticed that in the section on 7 facts my readers may not know about me, I revealed that I am :
a) not a panda
and
b) not a boy panda
While technically these things are true, I hope you all will continue to indulge me as I write with the voice of my inner panda, who happens to be named “Bob”. I don’t know how this happened. It just did, so let’s just go with that. Besides, if a person says something that’s mean or kind of snotty or insulting, it is seen by some people as an example of bad behavior. But, if a panda says it, “Hey! What’s the big deal. He’s pretty smart for a panda!”
Being endangered means never having to say you’re sorry.
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda
The real me!
To celebrate the panda birthday season (including my own) we have instituted the Panda-a-Day Challenge for the month of November. To successfully complete this challenge, I must draw 30 pandas on this 8 1/2 x 12 paper, fit all 30 pandas in, and have it come out looking like something that I don’t want to throw in the trash. Note from Mehitabel: What? You couldn’t do CATS?????? I also plan ( hope, dream, endeavor…whatever) to continue my regular post of cartoons, not to mention the exciting conclusion of the Versatile Blogger award posting. So without further blathering, here is the first entry to 30 days- 30 pandas:
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Out here in the Pacific Northwest we have a lot of weather that looks like those traditional Chinese landscape paintings, you know, kind of monochrome, lots of mist, rain, grayness, bases of mountains disappearing in the fog. But has anyone sent us a couple of pandas? Noooooooooooo they have not. Whats up with that, I ask you? Seems like one demand that should be made in the Occupy Wall Street movement is more pandas for the United States, especially in the Pacific Northwest. We have the weather that pandas like (or at least they are used to it, so they probably wouldn’t complain much) so we should have some.
Pandify Wall Street. That’s what I say!
Nobody expects the panda kindergarten!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Nobody expects the Panda Kindergarten! Or was that the Spanish Inquisition? No matter. While the tune Scotland the Brave runs through my head, the Panda Kindergarten continues to get ready for Tian Tian and Yang Guang‘s arrival. Bagpipes Beware! What next? MacBear, or should I say, The Scottish Cartoon?
Be the Bear!
Bob T Panda
Yes, panda fans, it’s time for the Scottish Play…er…cartoon I mean. Here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire we never miss the opportunity to make fun of current events in the panda world. Well, actually, we’ll make fun of anything, whether it’s about pandas or not. The return of pandas to Great Britain for the first time in almost 40 years is an event to be celebrated! ( My panda historian friends will correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that Chi Chi, who lived at the London Zoo from 1958 until her death in 1972, was the last panda who lived in Great Britain.
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
The Roll of Honor would not be complete without mentioning my dear friend and Mother of Babette de Panda, Victory S. of Greenbank WA. Victory has distinguished herself by fully embracing her inner panda, celebrating the cult of cuppycakes, and bringing into her life The Incomparable Babette, who has, through the force of her own dynamic panda-nality become a character in The Panda Chronicles. Congratulations, Victory for joining the Panda Chronicles Roll of Honor!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
The Roll of Honor would not be complete without mentioning my dear friend and Mother of Babette de Panda, Victory S. of Greenbank WA. Victory has distinguished herself by fully embracing her inner panda, celebrating the cult of cuppycakes, and bringing into her life The Incomparable Babette, who has, through the force of her own dynamic panda-nality become a character in The Panda Chronicles. Congratulations, Victory for joining the Panda Chronicles Roll of Honor!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Well, we’re not entirely sure, but we think the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire has officially launched our new Panda Commerce Division: PANDYLAND on Cafe Press. You can follow the link in the sidebar under the heading Panda Commerce Division. ( http://www.cafepress.com/pandyland) I am still working out some of the bugs as I am not the most techno sort of panda and I will be adding more designs and cartoons of Bob and his friends to the page. I hope you will feel inclined to invite some pandas to come and live with you! Black and white goes with everything, don’t you think? We really thought it was time that the pandas got off their furry little butts and helped buy all the ink and paper that we use here to make cartoons. The fast food thing was really not working out.
Let me know what you think, and if there is something you would like to be on a t-shirt or anything else, really!
Be the (well dressed) Bear!
Bob T. Panda