Cuppycakes are in the news once again! This time, it’s not cuppycake confiscation, but the demise of an American institution…yes, those little packaged snack cakes that are alleged to have a shelf life of a million years, are on their way out!. I suppose that it is no mystery why the maker of Twinkies and Wonderbread has filed for bankruptcy. I can’t remember the last time I ate one. But still….
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
I don’t know what most people think I do all day, but it is definitely NOT sitting around on my fuzzy butt drinking margaritas and eating bon-bons. Wouldn’t it be nice, though, if some magical fairy godperson (I’m not picky) would swoop down and drop a big bag of money so I could sit around drawing PANDA CARTOONS for days on end? I have fans now! (Well at least 28 of you are subscribing and some of those AREN’T because I personally threatened you with bodily harm and excessive whining if you didn’t.) People are depending on me for frequent applications of panda satire!
Around the beginning of October, someone on NPR always announces that the annual MacArthur Fellowships have been awarded and gosh darn it I didn’t get one again this year. Sigh… So there I was, lamenting my failure to receive large bags of money once again, and darned if I didn’t think of a cartoon to celebrate the season. So, I hope someone on the committee that selects people for the grant is reading this, because this category has long been neglected among MacArthur recipients.
Be the Bear (who was feeling better enough to draw a new cartoon!)
Bob T. Panda