Chris Gummert The Oregon exploding whale has had quite a life: first, the original news reel followed by endless anniversary pieces… then Dave Barry’s hilarious article… and recently it became the 5th most popular video on the web. Can Broadway be far behind? Not if Chris Gummert has anything to say about it. Gummert has [...]

Way up in the northwestern corner of Oregon is the small town of Clatskanie. Despite being over 200 miles away from where Oregon’s infamous whale made its debut, it lays claim to its own unique connections to the Exploding Whale. In an editorial in The Clatskanie Chief, publisher and editor Deborah Steele Hazen writes, “There [...]

Register-Guard columnist and perennial exploding whale enthusiast Bob Welch has once again referenced Oregon’s exploding whale in one of his columns. In “Dozer, not dynamite, eases whale’s final passage” — part of his “Where are they now?” series — Welch discusses the fate of the 40-foot gray whale that recently washed up on Oregon’s coast [...]

As the Register-Guard‘s resident exploding whale-lover, Bob Welch has written about Oregon’s exploding whale several times. See what happened when he recently asked readers to submit their top 4 made-in-Oregon movies.

Has anyone seen the new movie, Reno 911!: Miami? Apparently, the “Reno 911″ crew blows up the carcass of a dead whale they find on Miami’s South Beach. There’s a reference to it in the following Chicago Herald News interview with two of the actors.