Operation AXIOM
Thirty-six years ago to the day, 10 November 1975, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, at the time of her construction the largest "boat" on the Great Lakes, sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior, claiming all twenty-nine souls aboard. Your humble narrator has spent most of his life in sacred Michigan, but remains very much a landlubber. 'Tis so easy to take our Great Lakes for granted, to imagine them as mere lakes, really just exaggerated ponds, rather than the inland seas they really are, fraught with peril & myriad ways for a man to meet his demise.

The Rebel Black Dot Songs of the Day
Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" via iTunes (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: Like everyone else, I'd have only the vaguest awareness of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald without "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

Mittwoch, 9 November
MxPx, "Emotional Anarchist" from Panic (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: The liner notes to Panic use the archaic spelling "pist" for the word latterly rendered as "pissed." Fascinating.

"You're an emotional anarchist,
You're pist 'cause you never been kissed,
You're drowning in a sea of anarchy,
With your heart upon your patches
And no faith in democracy."