☮ 002. ((audio))

[delincuente]

Who: Alex Russo and you
Broadcast: Most definitely fleet-wide!
Action: SS Paisley
When: Saturday night

[Just before midnight on Saturday, the network picks up what may or may not be a familiar sound - the click of a cassette tape 'PLAY' button, a couple seconds of bumpy white noise, and then -

This very fitting song, in its marvelous entirety.

Oh, the things you find in a novelty shop on a foreign star system. Alex is eternally grateful, even if the fleet at large isn't. And when has she not found joy in driving people mad?]

Comments

[delincuente]

It's the 1990s, in cassette tape form.

[Behind the communicator, she's waving the case around like a trophy.]

Get yourself cultured, dude.

[justamobster]

If this's what culture sounds like, no thanks.

[delincuente]

You must be from the Planet of No Fun.

[justamobster]

Planet of decent music, yeah? [ Says the guy who used to think jazz was awful. ]

[delincuente]

You sound like my brother. I bet you like Burt Parks.

[justamobster]

Got no idea who that is. The Parks fella, I mean.

[delincuente]

Really boring smooth jazz musician.

[justamobster]

Dunno 'bout smooth, but jazz's what m'used to. S'what the kids listen to back home, anyhow.

[delincuente]

You're from the 20s or something, then?

[justamobster]

Had folks compare my world to some "nineteen-twenties-or-thirties" thingamajig. Place I'm from don't use those kinda numbers for years.

[delincuente]

Don't tell me you're from that "Century of the Sardine" place too, or whatever it's called.

[justamobster]

Er, no. Just cycles. No fish involved.

[delincuente]

Everyone should just get on the same schedule. Then it would be so much easier to compare.