Here at TheExplodingWhale.com, part of our mission is to keep the whale in Christmas. With that in mind, we’d like to point out a couple of whale-related children’s holiday books: The Christmas Whale by Roger Duvoisin and The Boy and the Whale by Eric Metaxas: Keep the whale in Christmas!    (click cover images for [...]

An article in the The Daily Telegraph newspaper of Sydney, Australia discusses plans to bury the carcass of a pygmy blue whale that recently washed up on an island near Perth. Because the island is a popular recreation and tourist area, officials decided to bury the carcass rather than tow it out to sea and [...]

Here’s a strange little story. A 17-year old boy in El Monte, California, rigged several ink pens to explode when the cap was removed. He then left the booby-trapped writing instruments around area high schools hoping to injure anyone who picked them up. His diabolical plot met with success on three occasions dating back to [...]

I have not got my paws on a copy yet, but Register-Guard columnist (and author, speaker, and teacher) Bob Welch — ardent fan of the Exploding Whale and whose columns have made regular mention of it — has a new book out called My Oregon. Here’s Bob’s description: A collection of 100-plus Register-Guard columns written [...]