And now for something completely different.

[truepenny]

I've just been reading some really horrible information about snake venom and the ways in which it can fuck your shit up. (Yes, it's for a story. Almost everything is.)

So, as a palate cleanser, and in case anybody else needs this today, I offer you baby red pandas at the Knoxville Zoo. And another red panda, about to break the camera with pure undiluted cuteness. The Knoxville Zoo was the zoo of my childhood, and I remember the red panda exhibit, but things have obviously improved since the 80s, because the red pandas now have a village.

As well they should, says I.

(Also, I now totally want to write a early-Cerebus-style sword & sorcery send up with a heroine named Red Panda. Or, more accurately, I want ursulav to write it for me.)

Comments

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I really needed that right this minute.

(I need to sleep more than i need to reread Corambis right now, and it has become a teddybook. But you had baby pandas, which are cute and don't take as long to read. er. Or something like that)

Things the internet is full of...

[much-of-a.livejournal.com]

Not at all Cerebus-style, but there are The Red Panda Adventures at Decoder Ring Theater (www.decoderringtheatre.com). These are wonderful faux-1930s Mystery Men adventures, wherein the Red Panda and his assistant (the Flying Squirrel) keep Toronto safe from baddies (who always have an appropriately evil laugh). And I still don't know why he's called The Red Panda, but suspect that it is because it is wonderfully inappropriate.

Re: Things the internet is full of...

[aedifica]

Oh good, I don't have to go find the URL to post it here. :-)

[mindyfromohio.livejournal.com]

I see your baby red pandas and raise you baby sloths!

http://vimeo.com/11712103

[tinyfroglet.livejournal.com]

Loved those pics!