Bucky Badger Bench

No doubt you all remember the terrible scandal that threatened to rip panablog, if not Panama, apart in January, when the unveiling of the Rock Chalk Hammock caused a large contingent of Wisconsinites (two) to protest that we had not similarly honored our undergraduate institution. The four months that have followed have been the darkest chapter in panablog history, with PANAMANIAC! fighting PANAMANIAC!, at least theoretically.

Well, today the period of panablog Reconstruction begins (and ends) as we proudly unveil: the Bucky Badger Bench:

Just look at it. Really drink it in. Constructed completely by hand, this one-of-a-kind item was forged of locally harvested materials using traditional methods. The pine was, (poorly, in hindsight, given all the knots) hand selected by me. The pigment was extracted from the fruit of the jagua tree in a process that looks something like this:

First you peel the fruit, and then grate it onto a permeable cloth. Wringing the cloth expresses a milky liquid, which, when cooked for thirty seconds to a minute, changes into a dark pigment perfect for creating a rustic Bucky. (This is the same pigment that the Embera use for body painting).

As a symbol of goodwill to the people of Wisconsin, we also involved the local childrens, who will no doubt grow up to tell their own offspring about the day they got to help paint a picture of an angry tijón while the gringos told them about the Badgers’ glorious victory over UCLA in the 1999 Rose Bowl of American Football:

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[Dr]

Statson, you are the Big Lebowski of Panama. And yes, I realize that they are not literally your children, that they are the Little Statson Rural Achievers - countryside Panamanian children of promise but without the necessary means for a (necessary means) for a higher education.