Prophet, hun, forgotten??? Hardly! You're one of the reasons this place is so memorable... and so addictive...

To me, Pixies' is a lot like one of my family's big birthday dinners --- there's tons of people around, the whole extended family is there plus lots of friends who don't know all of us quite as well but are joining the party anyway. Everyone's kind of milling about because we can't all sit down at the same time since there's not enough chairs, and people keep drifting back and forth to the kitchen or out to walk one of the dogs or to join in a pick-up hockey game or jam session... We notice when someone's not there, but it's not immediately cause for concern --- everyone comes back to the table enventually, when my grandmother's famous chocolate cake comes out --- and we just figure that the person has eaten enough and wandered off to do something else for a bit. It's only if the person stays away for so long that they miss an entire course of the meal or don't show up to open their presents that we get really anxious.

*calling*

Hey Prophet --- where'd you go? We're lighting the candles on the cake, c'mon back in for dessert!

--- sweetstuff

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