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In the ruins of her ice water mansions

(Posted by BNJ)

...when the waves...and the seasons...bring out their... dead... wait, how does that thing go? This isn't really a propos of anything, but today is the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

I know you've got to see Lake Superior in person to fully understand, but I've always been fascinated that a ship that freakin HUGE could sink... in a lake.

Oh well. Some of the underwater pictures of the wreckage give me the creeps. Like this one.

Posted by BNJ on November 10, 2005 09:21 AM | |Discuss

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I always liked Richard Jeni's take on that song:

And the waaaves hit the boat and they all drowned like raaaats...and their lungs filled up with waterrrrrrr

Posted by: apotheosis | November 10, 2005 09:35 AM

So...like I know that Bush didn't actually sink the boat, but how is it that the 30th anniversary happened in his administration? Just a coincidence? I don't think so. Next thing we'll hear from the White House is: "Who knew the 30th anniversary would happen like this? There's no way we could have been prepared."

Yeah, sure, Scotty...everybody -- and I mean everybody -- knew that this anniversary was coming. I mean...the Clinton White House had no problem dealing with the 25th anniversary -- You know why? Because that was a competent administration, that's why. If Bush didn't plant explosives in the hold of that ship, he might as well have.

http://www.ReopenTheEdmondFitzgeraldSinkingInvestigation.org

Posted by: withoutfeathers | November 10, 2005 10:22 AM

has Gordon Lightfoot been sunk yet?

Posted by: fred | November 10, 2005 10:33 AM

You know, that *is* a big lake!

Posted by: OTTami | November 10, 2005 01:59 PM

Heh, yeah, I think I remember the Richard Jeni version. In a similar vein, I always preferred Robbie Fulks's straightforward "She Took a Lot of Pills and Died" to Elton John's sappy "Candle in the Wind."

Posted by: Barry | November 11, 2005 09:08 AM

Someone told me that Isreal would fit in Lake Michigan. (I'm sure there are some ROPers who think that is a good idea.) Superior is a whole lot bigger.

Posted by: Paul Moore | November 12, 2005 06:03 AM

I think that it is sad
because they were so close to land.

Posted by: Jack | March 15, 2008 01:42 PM

I think that it is sad
because they were so close to land.

Posted by: Jack | March 15, 2008 01:42 PM

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