man from Mars

“People are fed up. They want their children to be able to play in the parks. They want people to be held accountable. You can’t just let everything go,” she said, adding, “I voted for who is best for our city and is going to get our city back on track. I don’t care if they’re a Republican or a man from Mars.”

The catalog notes that “the designation bewildered the public and journalists alike,” including a 1951 New York Times critic who imagined a MoMA tour for a just-arrived Man from Mars, wondering what on earth cars were doing in a museum.

And here's a brief passage from Fred Nadis' 2013 book "The Man From Mars," a biography of Amazing Stories editor Ray Palmer:

The quotes “Where Joni goes, there I am,” said Chaka Khan, adding that she chose to sing two of her favorite Mitchell songs, “Man From Mars” and “The Hissing of Summer Lawns.”

“I might as well be the village information-gatherer, the man from Mars who simply wants to know. Fortunately the world is full of people with information-compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don’t know.”