Story> Ben Barnhardt
Camera> Tim Zimmerman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the eye of the panda. Camera: Tim Zimmerman

 

 

i am good friends with a man known to many as "crazy ronnie". ronnie was and still is known to jump off of stationary objects onto his chest, fall flat on his face on the hardest of surfaces, smash his hand with a hammer, spit down his pants in front of girls, string wire through the tips of his fingers, run his car into snowbanks in the middle of traffic, drink crystal pepsi and like it, paint his teeth and tongue, eat crayons, eat dirt cereal and drink the milk, refer to himself as "the wizard of clown", dance naked on bars while being shot with the tap, use rock deodorant, smash the engine of his volkswagen that had taken him months to rebuild with an axe, own a renault appliance, refer to himself as "cooter", still have one of the red michael jackson jackets and an unopened six pack of michael jackson pepsi, sing the song "my adidas" while not being able to sing whatsoever, break the key to the volcom rv, kick his mom's car off the jack while it had a flat tire, pee in the middle of his driveway with his hands in his pockets, refer to himself as "ron labatts", deliver knives for a living and be able to maintain a level of stuntwork not soon to be matched in our lifetime. or so i thought...
> although i think that it is no longer blue, the actual blue couch lies in the living room of ronnie's parent's house. if it wasn't for someone dropping a foot long piece of romaine lettuce covered with salad dressing behind one of the cushions, we may have never even paid attention to the couch... but that's another story.
> blue couch needed to create our own version of crazy ronnie, a being that would uphold the values of total disregard for privacy and personal property. the result of this experiment is the now infamous "panda". i cannot say that i have much control of the situation anymore, but i can only hope that the panda lives up to every stunt that crazy ronnie would have deemed worthy. and just like the movie "the mask" in 3d (not the more popular one), pandemonium is comin' at ya.-Ben Barnhardt

 

to have the panda appear in person at your house and destroy something,
please send an e-mail to: bluecouchlabs@prodigy.net

Left: Catherine Nieves shows off the feminine side of Panda destruction. Camera: Tim Zimmerman
Right: Brooke Geery helps the Panda's sensitive side show through. Camera: Tim Zimmerman

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