Just a quick heads up to let you know that Register-Guard columnist and longtime admirer of Oregon’s Exploding Whale Bob Welch has officially entered the Blogosphere with his new RG blog titled Close to Home with Bob Welch. Welch has written several columns (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) about [...]

Oregon’s Exploding Whale continues to inspire creative types. Last year, the Exploding Whale was the subject of a successful one-man show and a WikiWorld comic strip. And now Abdul Hameed Gamiet has released an animated retelling of the well-known incident. Gamiet used the audio track from the the original video and then created his own [...]

On the 37th anniversary of Oregon’s Exploding Whale, radio host and former exploding whale reporter Paul Linnman interviewed Chicago stand-up comic Chris Gummert, whose one-man show on the exploding whale is currently playing at the Apollo Theater in Chicago (as previously reported). From the interview: It is equal parts, I think, research project and stand-up. [...]

As previously reported…. Countdown: The Story of the Exploding Whale continues its phenomenally funny run at the Apollo Theater on Wednesday nights at 8pm through the end of November. The hilarious new multi-media, one-man show from writer/comedian Chris Gummert unravels the true story of a beached whale that was disposed of using a half-ton of [...]

Southern California has recently been confronted with figuring out how best to dispose of a huge, 60-ton blue whale carcass. The rotting hulk was towed into harbor for examination by scientists on September 22, and after being dissected and having several internal organs removed, the whale was towed out to sea. A few days later, [...]