I live very close to Lake Michigan and yeah I’m reminded of this song all the time
― frogbs, Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:40 (one year ago) link
Doctor Casino, I am continually charmed by your diligence in pursuing narrow avenues of lyrical trivia. You are doing important work. Keep it up.
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
as life goes on, i grow more and more accepting of the things I'm good at
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:13 (one year ago) link
(and thank you!)
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
Maybe it's because I heard this endlessly on the radio as a four-year-old, but I never go out of my way to put this on. Here's my favourite Lightfoot shipwreck song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4cAnMZc79U
My favourite shipwreck song of all is "The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns" by Phil Ochs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbiJR-bqSfw
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
this is a great thread but i wish we could make it so you can only post to it on 10 november
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 November 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
Spent some of my childhood years growing up in the UP and there was this one time I got to take a plane ride back from Escanaba with a little league teammate and his dad who flew. Before the dad landed, he took us over our local bay and the Superior water was so clear you could see countless shipwrecks at the bottom of the bay.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 5 November 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
I was at a bar in Superior, WI once and a guy told me his dad was a cook on the ship and went down with it, I choose to believe him
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 November 2022 03:02 (one year ago) link
I was searching the tubes for versions of Red Iron Ore (a fantastic tune in its own way for fans of the Great Lakes and/or sea chanties) and came across this double-shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxUTteCudL8
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 5 November 2022 03:52 (one year ago) link
Super nice day out for this anniversary, Gales of November nowhere to be found yet.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@taylagoers/video/7159338279358319914
― pplains, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
ngl, I like when 11/10 is colder and drearier for my annual walk along Lake Michigan listening to this, doesn't hit the same when it's sunny and 75
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 November 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
Did Lake Michigan steam like a young man's dreams?
On second thought, never mind.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 10 November 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
I always read "the islands and lakes are for sportsmen" as sideways insult of lake michigan, like it's the little kids play area versus ICE WATER MANSIONS which is so much more teenage goth
― joygoat, Thursday, 10 November 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
Superior's the real real, though
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 10 November 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
Remembered!
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 10 November 2023 15:00 (five months ago) link
that delivery of "Does any one know where the love of God goes/When the waves turn the minutes to hours?" gets me everytime.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 10 November 2023 15:26 (five months ago) link
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum’s annual Edmund Fitzgerald memorial event will be offered as a livestream ceremony this year. The event, scheduled for Friday, November 10, 2023 (7pm), is closed to the public, but will be available on this livestream link that you can watch from your device of choice. The buildings of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point, are not open to the public on November 10, 2023.In addition, the Michigan Maritime Museum (www.michiganmaritimemuseum.org) of South Haven, MI, will host a viewing of the Shipwreck Museum’s Edmund Fitzgerald livestreamed memorial service at their facility.
In addition, the Michigan Maritime Museum (www.michiganmaritimemuseum.org) of South Haven, MI, will host a viewing of the Shipwreck Museum’s Edmund Fitzgerald livestreamed memorial service at their facility.
https://shipwreckmuseum.com/shipwreck-museums-48th-anniversary-edmund-fitzgerald-memorial-event-will-be-a-closed-event-livestreamed-in-2023/
― Andy K, Friday, 10 November 2023 15:43 (five months ago) link
Can't recall if I have posted it here or not but the Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point can be a spoooky, ominous place. Also really cool and informative.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:17 (five months ago) link
it's interesting that there are so many shipwreck museums around the globe. Other than scattered memorials I can't think of any plane crash museums though. I guess plane crashes are mostly blamed on mechanical/human error, rather than acts of God, and so are seen differently?
― henry s, Friday, 10 November 2023 17:04 (five months ago) link
Co-worker of mine in her 60s telling me how they'd have this activity at the skating rink in the late 70s where row of boys would face a row of girls.
One would skate from one side to the other, make their pick and then skate down the line between the two rows. Sometimes, the pair would go off together, but more often than not, the person picked would come back to make a selection from the other side of their own.
The most cringe and anxiety producing skating game I had heard in awhile with the cherry on top being — "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" would be the song that would play throughout all of this because it was six and a half minutes long.
There are grandmothers in suburban St. Louis today who likely flinch when those intro chords strike over the Smooth AM Hits XM channel.
― pplains, Friday, 10 November 2023 21:07 (five months ago) link
I like the idea of a plane crash museum. I've personally lost several friends & acquaintances to plane crashes and only one to a shipwreck (or technically, lost at sea). I guess wind shear used to be an act of god that crashed planes but now there's technology to prevent that.
― Josefa, Saturday, 11 November 2023 04:09 (five months ago) link
at the risk of being incredibly rude
I've personally lost several friends & acquaintances to plane crashes
do you live in alaska or are you related to paul wellstone?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 November 2023 04:37 (five months ago) link
No, just weird bad luck I guess. Especially for those people who are gone now.
― Josefa, Saturday, 11 November 2023 04:51 (five months ago) link
xp can you elaborate on alaska = more plane crash prone?
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 11 November 2023 04:59 (five months ago) link
not sure that it's more plane-crash prone, exactly, but most of it can only be reached by plane. an alaskan politician needs to fly a lot more than an east coast politician. and that's how ted stevens finally died.
also flying into juneau is apparently so harrowing (like, you'd better be lined up perfectly or you won't be able to clear the mountains on an aborted landing) that they've spent 70 years talking about moving the capital
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 November 2023 05:20 (five months ago) link
bruh
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 11 November 2023 06:03 (five months ago) link
i am innocent (of whatever you are suggesting)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 November 2023 06:16 (five months ago) link
A little technical, but this is a good analysis of the weather situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1FE69h-mdk
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 11 November 2023 08:43 (five months ago) link