I'm mostly sorry to say that I can't Stick Around very long today. I have to make my way to the Secret Underground Headquarters (it's actually underground, which I hafta' say I don't like all that much -- it's dark and it has a chill that pretty much stays with you the whole time you're there) to join a Search Party pretty soon, so I don't have much time to visit, but I will take a Minute to Explain, briefly, what's going on. 

As you probably have almost forgotten (like I almost did), I decided to join my Now-Missing Illegitimate Nephew, Kevin, for lunch. And as you also might have not remembered to recall, Kevin had kindly Volunteered to Infiltrate the Snark Brothers Enterprises in order to help The Resistance to get their Wings on a copy of the List of Her Insufferable Majesty, Queen Darla's Accomplices. But I know that you haven't Forgotten that Kevin was planning to Accomplish this Mission by Cozying Up to his Estranged Step-Sister, Felonie Snark, who (the last any of us had heard) was in charge of Old Product ReDevelopment for her Uncles, Chaz and Narville Snark, and who (as everybody knows) has been involved in those Secret Negotiations the Snark Brothers have been Engaged In regarding a Trade Deal they're trying to make with a Colony of Murder Hornets. So when Kevin and I met at Lousy Louie's to talk about how, exactly, he was going to Accomplish his Mission, I decided to order the Honey Roasted Pollen Puffs and a Honeysuckle Nectar Fizz (hey, it's 5:00 somewhere in the world). Kevin just had the Dandelion Sandwich and water.

As we were sitting in a Booth, Kevin shared the Intricate Details of his Plan to get his Wings on the List. I hafta' say that I was glad we had a Booth - they're much more Private, so I was absolutely Positive that for the most part nothing Kevin and I were buzzing about was Overheard. Anyway, by the time we'd finished Lunch and had our Dessert (we both had the Refined Sugar Water), I was Fully Informed of Kevin's Brilliant Plan.  Little did I know that, after he got up to go to the Bathroom, that would bee the last time I or  anybody would see - or hear from -  Kevin, at least since last Tuesday, I think it was. He was Supposed to bee Checking In with The Resistance every day, but he's still Nowhere to bee Found at all. He's Mysteriously Vanished.
 
We're all very Concerned.

So to make what should bee a Highly Short Story just a little bit Longer, in less than exactly about 87 minutes from now, all of us in The Resistance will bee Meeting at Headquarters to form that Search Party I mentioned earlier (you remember that, right?), and beefore we do anything else at all, we're going to make it our Number One Priority try to find out what the hell happened to Kevin. That gives me just enough time to grab a quick Lunch.

So I'm gonna go do that.