This ran in the Post Magazine in January 2006 when
Tai Shan mania gripped DC in a relentless hug. I'd developed an antipathy to pandas for no good reason and about the time the National Zoo was paying the Chinese through the nose to rent a coupla pandas I did a poem in the Almanac trash talking the lumbering brutes. I can't find that drawing, but part of it went "Pandas are boring, tedious and blah, Great big two-tone fuzzy cures for insomnia." It didn't do any good: the
Zoo is at it again.
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Got my copy of "The Might Alice" today. It's for my son's birthday in August, but I'm (ever-so-carefully) reading it first. It's wonderful!
Agree with you on pandas.
So, what DID the railing taste like?
Thanks, Ironmom! No need to be too careful - you can always buy more.
Mike, I'm guessing germs.
I just assumed you researched these things ...
The railing pannel got me actually laughing out loud on a plane, cheers Richard:-)
I loved Alice chomping the rail. Perfect memory.
I was doing a cocktail of the month on my blog back then..or was it week?...anyway, I invented a panda cocktail (black and white,) and did a pen/watercolor of the little Butterstick.
It was weekly:
http://washingtoncube.blogspot.com/search?q=panda
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