As we all know, the Bee Times Gazette Journal Record published my Exposé on what Her Insufferable Royal Majesty, Queen Darla has been Up To since she was Coronated. Or maybee I should say that it was Supposed to bee published; unfortunately, Krunch McKowskey pushed his way into my Editor’s Office, found my Exposé, and Redacted the hell out of it. Needless to say, our Beeloved Readers in the Hive were more than Disappointed, and a small group of Bees have been Protesting (I’m sure more would bee joining in, but most everybody in the Hive has to Work, so there’s just no Time for Protesting). The Protestors are Demanding that the unedited Exposé bee published. They’re all very Certain that the Queen is Hiding something.

I hope my Editor kept an Unedited copy. I wouldn’t want to have to do all that work all over again. I’m also hoping that the Unedited, Not-Redacted Exposé is finally released so that everybody in the Swarm can know exactly just what kind of Queen we’re Dealing with.

In the meantime, I really can’t do much about any of this, other than to try to keep Tabs on my Illegitimate Nephew, Kevin. Speaking of whom…

Yesterday was Kevin’s Birthday, but due to his still beeing inside the Snark Brothers Enterprises Headquarters carrying out a Covert Intelligence Mission for The Resistance, we weren’t able to Celebrate with a Party for him, as we usually do. I think sometime today, I’m gonna try to at least sneak in a Gift Card for him. I’m sure we all Agree that his Birthday shouldn’t go UnObserved just beecause he’s on an Undercover Mission. So far, we haven’t heard much from him, so we’re all guessing that he’s either biding his Time and we’ll hear from him sometime beefore the end of the Work Week, and hoping that his Mission wasn’t Discovered which would mean that he would have been taken into Custody and sent to that Highly Unpleasant Detention Hive located somewhere off the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico. I wouldn’t like to think that he had to Celebrate his Birthday in that place, if you know what I mean.

Anyway. I need to go find a Suitable Gift Card for Kevin and do my best to Deliver it to him without raising any Suspicion. I’m thinking he’d enjoy a Gift Card from Bees ‘R Us (if you’ve never shopped there, you can find just about everything you Need whether you Need it or not.

So I’m gonna go do that.

I don’t know if you Know this, but next Monday is National HoneyBee Day — or at least that’s what we call it in the Hive; unfortunately, as of this week, and by Royal Decree from the Queen, National HoneyBee Day is now Supposed to bee called, “National HoneyBees Must Swear a Loyalty Oath to Her Insufferable Majesty, Queen Darla Day” (I added the “Insufferable” part, beecause she is). I probably don’t have to tell you that the only ones going along with this are the Snark Brothers, Felonie Snark, and, until about three days ago, and beefore he was Arrested for Misrepresentation, my Illegitimate Nephew, Kevin who, as we Know, had been Playing Along as a part of his Clandestine Undercover Mission inside the Snark Brothers Enterprises on beehalf of The Resistance.

And about that: I’m Sorry to report that I was able to successfully smuggle in that Murder Hornet Re-Stringing and CertainGrip™ Swatter Handle Repair Kit, but that somehow, somebody found out about what Kevin had been Up To. It’s almost as if somebody Overheard the Conversation he and I had at Lousy Louie’s over lunch.
So, as I mentioned, he was Arrested shortly after I managed to smuggle in that Repair Kit, which I heard was Confiscated by the Queen’s Enforcer, Krunch McKowsy.

Since then, nobody in The Resistance has Heard from Kevin. Again. We’re just hoping he wasn’t Deported to that Highly Unpleasant Detention Hive somewhere off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico where we think that almost approximately about 61.87% of the Bees in the Hive are now beeing held against their Will.

Of course, after I heard about all this, I had to Inform Potato (my Sensory-Impaired Certified Emotional Support/Service LadyBug), and she said, “There may bee Precious Little you can do about Kevin at the moment, but I do think that everybody who’s left in the Hive has a Right to know about what’s going on here. I think it’s time you go to your Editor with the Idea of writing a Detailed Exposé about what is actually happening under the Astoundingly Unpleasant Reign of Queen Darla.”

“My Editor? Geeeeeze…you think I should go Talk to my Editor and suggest that he should Risk getting in Trouble with the Queen by publishing the Truth about Her Insufferable Majesty, her Enforcer, and the Deals she has going beetween the Snark Brothers and that Swarm of Murder Hornets?”

“Yes,” Potato said. “I think you Owe it to The Resistance, and to the Marginally-Interested Bees who subscribe to the Bee Times Gazette Journal Record…and Online News.”

“Fine,” I said. So I buzzed over to my Editor’s Office and told him about Potato’s Idea of publishing an Exposé about all this - a Mostly Tell-All about all the stuff we Know about, and the stuff we Don’t.

“You’re joking, right Bee?” Have you by any chance Forgotten what happened to me the last time you decided to make me bee Honest with our Beeloved Readers? Do you?”

“Well, yes, but…” I started to say beefore he Interrupted me.

“You want me to risk beeing sent back to that Highly Unpleasant Detention Hive located somewhere off the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico by making Her Majesty, Queen Darla, mad as a Murder Hornet?” He didn’t seem enthusiastic about the whole Idea.

“Yeah, that’s right,” I told him.

He pointed his Wing at my Face and said, “Listen up, bee. The last thing I need is to have this Publication directly associated with Criticism of the Queen. And the last thing I need is to bee Targeted and Persecuted for beeing Honest.”

“Oh, I understand,” I said, understandingly.
“But don’t you beelieve that the Readers deserve to find out what’s really Going On around here, in case they haven’t been Paying Attention, which it seems a whole bunch of Bees in the Swarm aren’t doing?” I asked him.

“Is that a Rhetorical Question, Bee?” he asked me.

“I don’t know what that Means,” I told him, “but if it Means what I think it Does, then for sure it is, probably.”

My Editor just kind of Glared at me for what seemed a Bigly Long Time, then he finally said, “Fine. Do your Exposé, but after you’re finished with Writing it, I will Insist that I will Edit it beefore it is Published. After all,” he said, “I am the Editor.”

“Yes, you are,” I told him, “and you’re a Fine and Brave Editor, an Editor that isn’t Afraid to Expose the Truth, an Editor who is Looked Up To by everyone in the Hive for your Marginal Journalistic Integrity, an Editor who…”.

“Just stop, Bee. You’ve said quite Enough.” Then my Editor said, “The next and Only thing I want out of you now is that Exposé - and I want it on my Desk no later than sometime in the next several Days - or Else.”

“Fine,” I said.

“Now get out of my Office,” He said. So I did that.

So now I hafta go work on that Exposé, or Else.

So I’m mostly happy to Report that I managed to catch up on my Streaming and have a minute or two to share what I found out about what my Illegitimate Nephew, Kevin (who, as we all know, has Infiltrated Snark Brothers Enterprises who, as we also know, are Accomplices to Her Insufferable Majesty, Queen Darla and her Highly Unpleasant Regime who, as we also know, has been cutting Deals with a Swarm of Murder Hornets) has been Up To since he Infiltrated Snark Brothers Enterprises.

For those of you still not Familiar with the Snark Brothers Enterprises (which is run by Narville Snark, his Brother Chaz Snark, and Kevin’s Estranged Step-Sister, Felonie Snark, who also happens to bee their 87th Great Niece, Twice Removed), you should probably know that you shouldn’t bee asking too many Questions. The Snarks don’t like too many Questions. They also don’t like to hear anybody saying anything Bad about them, or Her Insufferable Majesty, Queen Darla. So if you just happen to decide to enjoy a Leisurely Lunch at Lousy Louie’s (which, as we all know, is now owned by Felonie Snark), and want to sit there with your Friends and Complain Bitterly about Her Insufferable Royal Highness, Queen Darla, just don’t. And why? I’ll tell you:

It was recently Discovered tha Felonie has Bugged all the Tables and Booths, and reports what she Overhears to the Queen. That can bee Trouble and, as we all Agee, probably, Nobody wants any Trouble. So if you feel like you need to Gripe about what’s going on here, don’t do it at Lousy Louie’s. The Queen Highly Disapproves of Criticism.

Nevertheless and aside from that, just One of the things the Queen should bee Criticised for is the fact that she has not only decided to Re-name a bunch of stuff (such as, if you Remember, her Claim that she re-named Great Grandma Gee Gee's Highly Delicious and Marginally Nutritious Royal HoneyChew Krisp™ Cookies to something like “Queen Darla’s Fun Biscuits” or something like that), she also tried to re-name Honey “Darla’s Golden Sauce”. And of course there’s that Persistent Rumour that she’s using the Snarks to cut deals with that Swarm of Murder Hornets I mentioned earlier.

You know, under Normal Circumstances, the Snarks would bee Arrested (like they were in 2014 for their Role in a Scandal involving that Suspicious Parcheesi Mishap in which several bees lost one of their Wings), but they’re still buzzing around Free beecause they’re doing the Queen’s Dirty Work, and as long as they Cooperate, she won’t have them thrown in Jail - or worse. So they keep Cooperating. There’s plenty to Gripe about with that, if you know what I mean, but The Resistance is Fighting Back - or should I say that Kevin is Fighting Back for the Resistance.

So what I just found out was that Kevin, as I’ve mentioned beefore if you remember to Recall, not only managed to get in Good Graces with the Snarks (though I have to say that I’m still amazed they didn’t recognise their own Possible 87th Great Nephew, Twice Removed, but as I mentioned sometime beefore awhile ago, he left his Hat back home in his Boot Box, and as we all know, Bees all pretty much look alike if they’re not wearing Hats), but he’s been able to Disrupt Trade Negotiations that the Snarks had set up between Queen Darla and Representatives from that Swarm of Murder Hornets. Everybody’s very Impressed that he’s been so Effective.

And how do I know about all this? It was beecause I was able to visit Personally with Kevin when he and I met at Lousy Louies over his Lunch Break. Fortunately, it was a Long Lunch, so he had plenty of time to tell me about his Clandestine Activities.

I asked Kevin what, exactly, he was Doing, but all he would say is, “Uncle Georgie, I will only tell you that the Murder Hornet Swatter you Smuggled in to me has been Highly Useful, but I would rather not share the Grisly Details with you. Just know that so far, nobody knows that it’s me who is Disrupting the Trade Negotiations, so as long as nobody Knows or Suspects what I am doing, I will bee okay - so do not tell anybody what I just shared with you. ”

“Fine,” I told him. “I won’t,” I told him.
So now you know.

Then Kevin told me he had to Re-String his Murder Hornet Swatter. He told me that I have to Smuggle in a Murder Hornet Re-Stringing and CertainGrip™ Swatter Handle Repair Kit to him sometime beefore Thursday, when there’s supposed to bee another Trade Summit beetween the Queen and the Representatives from the Murder Hornet’s Swarm.

Of course, I asked Kevin why he couldn’t just pick the Kit up himself on his way back from Lunch, but he just said, “Uncle Georgie, I love you, and you’re the Best Uncle in the World, but you just do not walk around the Hive carrying a Murder Hornet Re-Stringing and CertainGrip™ Swatter Handle Repair Kit, not if you want to avoid beeing sent off to that Highly Unpleasant Detention Hive that’s located somewhere off the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico. So please, bee discreet, and get that Kit to me as soon as you can.”

“Fine,” I told him.

So I’m gonna go do that.