"Sign In Stranger": It just occurred to me...
...that, depending on what's REALLY going on over on Mizar Five, that one could interpret this song as a science fiction version of Randy Newman's classic "Sail Away." Like that song, it's a sales pitch to get some unfortunate onto a ship heading for a colony, dangling all sorts of wonders and amusements as incentive...but what's really going to become of them once they sign the contract? Given the many unreliable narrators in the SD corpus, it wouldn't take much to assume that this shill mightn't be on the up and up, as it were. Let's just hope that, oh, I don't know, Elon Musk isn't getting any ideas from this one...
And hey, even if my take is completely off base (you should hear what I've decided "Aja" is about sometime), it gives me a good excuse to link to one of our great American songs, from one of the few modern American songwriters in Walter & Don's league. So here. So there:
Posted Apr 6, 2026, 1:29 PM UTC