…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
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
Yoohoo! here I am, having successfully made it to the penultimate day of the A to Z Bloggers Challenge, where I have worked my way through the alphabet, demonstrating the relevance of all letters to pandas. Yes, you’ve had to yawn through my yackkety-yakking, yadda, yadda, yaddaing about pandas, but so what? It could be worse, couldn’t it?
Couldn’t it??????
Besides, what could be cuter than pandas wearing yarmulkes?
Today, you are a bear.
Or even better, pandas doing yoga:
All salute the sacred cuppycake!
And then we have the Year of the Rabbit…
The year of the bunny…..
Oh that panda kindergarten!
The Year of the Dragon…
Huzzah! it’s the year of the Dragon!
I skipped the year of the snake, because…hello? snakes? and moved right on to the Year of the Horsie!
Huzzah! It’s The year of Pandas on Horsies!
And lest we forget, The Panda Chronicles operates under the banner of Your Brain on Pandas! OK, well maybe it’s my brain that’s on pandas.
I want to send a special shout out to a couple of the blogs that I really enjoyed and either was already following or am now following: The Art of Not Getting Published, The Ninja Librarian, and The Pedestrian Writer. There are many more good blogs that participated, and I look forward to working my way through the list as what with writing a post everyday, I had less time to read other blogs than I had hoped I would.
Meanwhile, progress is progressing on Pandamorphosis, my wordless picture book. Stay tuned to this very blog for very excited announcements when it is ready to hit the street. Meanwhile, my interview about Kickstarter on Whidbey Air Radio’s show Isle of the Arts, has been rescheduled for next Monday. Don’t worry, I’ll remind you.
Till then, Be the Bear and Panda On!
Bob T. Panda
What X-citement we have had the month! Despite the X-erable weather and heck…I can’t hardly find any words that start with X without cheating. X-scuses, X-scuses…
Meanwhile, we are recovering from our X-hausting bout with yet another version of this winter’s cold and flu season. On Wednesday we will be back with a new cartoon (a REALLY new cartoon!) and hopefully, we will resume our normal schedule of a new cartoon every Sunday and Wednesday, as well as an “encore presentation” for Fabulous Furry Fridays.
Thank you to all the A to Z-ers who came to visit this month. I hope you will stick around and say hi from time to time. There are some new blogs that I am now following, as well as a couple that I already followed. Posting daily did not give me as much time as I had hoped for visiting other blogs, but with the list still accessible (yes?) I hope to rectify that situation.
And now, here are some X-cellent encore presentations. (I’m X-cited about tomorrow, Y? Because, duh, Panda Yoga, hello?)
X-cessively bad taste
X-treme jealousy
X-treme angst
And to all you folks out there that are thinking of launching your own crowdfunding project out there in the real world, my radio interview on Whidbey Air got rescheduled to next week, due to my sore throat and fever that I was X-periencing this weekend. I’ll post the link here next Sunday so you can tune in, because it gonna be LIVE!!! See ya then!
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda
Salutations! Wow, here we are, all the way to “S” on the fun and fabulous A to Z Blog Challenge. I don’t know what number “S” corresponds to, because I can only count up to four, having only four paws.
So, silly of me to suppose that a Salute to Pandas (please sound trumpet or saxophone every time I say, “Salute to Pandas” preferably with some sound effects) could be sabotaged when everyone knows that pandas are sacrosanct. I mean, it would be sacrilegious to sacrifice the Salute to Pandas by subsuming it to some less salubrious day. We sacrifice the simplistic and saccharine in subservience to the satirical and the sarcastic. We see no schadenfreude nor schmaltz as we scamper and schmooze through our schedule.
Here’s a sample:
I keep hearing the song “bears on the Run” going through my head…the ski run, that is!
And a day without the Dance of the Sugar Plum Pandas is just not worth starting.
sweet!
Schmoop!
I bet you smiled.
And what could be better than pandas recreating Shakespeare?
After all, the playings the thing….
And of course, pandas have their secrets!
The secret lives of the wild panda!
And last, but hardly least, who could resist the Scottish Panda Kindergarten!
Save some pie for me!
Stay tuned for tomorrows A to Z installment!
Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda!
Today is an off day from the A to Z, but I always (okay, most of the time) post a cartoon (a new one, no less) on Sunday and Wednesday, and today is no exception.
I did leave a wedding party early JUST so I could get home to post this. Oh wait, “M” day (for martyr) was last week. Anyway, I did want to post my salute to Easter today, a holiday celebrating chocolate, and some other stuff as well, which, were I not a complete heathen, I would know about.
A tiskitt a taskitt , a great big wheelie basket!
I’ll be back tomorrow with more alphabetical atrocities.
Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda
I have been waiting
so.
very.
long….
for today…this peripatetic population of pandas, these paragons of pageantry, pandas at parties, pandas in pairs, panda panda panda! Pandas with their palpable need to pampered, pandas in pursuit of pomp, pandas having pancakes while participating in panicked PANDAMONIUM!!!!!
What’s a little pandamonium among friends?
Princess Pinky, that paradigm of >Poof< , never paranoid nor parochial, permanently partaking of pop-overs, pretty as a picture.
Pandas….brought to you by the letter”P”
Never say “No” to a Pinky!
Pairs of pandas in pajamas…
Sweet dreams, little bears! (editors note, this cartoon was drawn before Pinky poofed the Cublanta twins and turned them into girls.)
…pandas partaking in pursuits of the poetical….
The cake abides….
and last, but hardly least, perky panda pirates!
An explorer’s work is never done.
Thanks again to the A to Z for hosting this monthlong panda-thon, not to mention Cordelia’s Mom, Still for inviting the pandas over for a guest post. (I swear I’ll have the carpets cleaned. Sorry about all that frosting and the picture window.)
And have I mentioned that “P” also stands for Pandamorphosis? Just sayin. (stay tuned for news as it appears!)
Keep Being the Bears!
Bob T. Panda
Mmmmmmmm….me thinks there may be many messages and mottos that my minions might merit, starting with the letter “M” And of course, we must not forget Mehitabel!
Mwahahahaha!
But just a moment…there are monumental Machiavellian maneuvers and maledictions in the making. On Monday, oh malicious Monday, the Pulitzer Awards of Merit were made public.
Did you know there is no Pulitzer awarded in the field of Panda Satire?????? Likewise, those misanthropic mucky-mucks at the MacArthur Foundation also have marginalized Panda Satire as if it were miniscule rather than mighty.
Why IS there no MacArthur Fellowship for Panda Satire, anyway?
Nice to know that there are at least two times a year when panda satire can be overlooked, spring and fall! My oh my!
Meanwhile, motherhood is in the air, as the panda season of love continues. But you might want to think this through lest mischief manifest itself. Enjoy this episode about how Princess Pinky got her Magical Wand.
oops.
Oh Princess Pinky, mom has a trick or two up her paw, I think…
Thanks again to the folks who made the A to Z challenge manifest itself in such a marvelous manner. What a merry madcap mis-adventure we are on.
Thanks to all who have checked out my books here. Who wouldn’t want to take the pandas home with them?
Till tomorrow, may we meet again!
Be the bear,
Bob T Panda
Finally a letter that is a feature of my life at the moment. As a fastidious furry friend once said, “I am smarter than the average bear” right before he stepped in front of a fast Ferrari and found his finale.
Fortunately, our fine fuzzy fictional princess is with fantastic and fabulous friends. They shall fly over the freeways at speeds not for the faint-hearted. Meanwhile over at the A to Z, we find frenetic formulating of this fanciful format, as we fantasize about frosting. For Real. My A to Z pick of the day is the Artsy Gourmet, who you can fine here!
Fast furry friends…for now
This cartoon is based on the real life antics of the fickle fuzzy fractious panda princess as she explores the art of tree climbing.
Farewell,
Bob T. Panda