http://www.theexplodingwhale.com "The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds." -- Paul Linnman, TV news reporter Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:24:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And now for the very best kind of "exploding" whale... From BBC News: After 15 months of pregnancy, Qila the Vancouver Aquarium's 12-year-old beluga whale has given birth to her first calf. The birth was captured live by television cameras. Qila was the first beluga whale to be conceived and born in a Canadian ... http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/archives/2008/06/baby-beluga-born-in-bc/ In a long-lost piece written from the perspective of happy homemaker Patricia Halsworthy, the venerable satirists at The Onion let loose on the "have fun or else" mentality of the modern family vacation in... "I Refuse To Let Some Beached Whale Ruin Our Family Outing" The story is relayed as Patricia's side ... http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/archives/2008/06/the-onion-riffs-on-exploding-whales/ CNN's News To Me program, which covered the Exploding Whale back in February, is now having a contest to determine which segments will appear in their self-proclaimed "blockbuster special" on May 17. Obviously, I'd like to encourage you to vote for the Exploding Whale! So go do it. Now. What ... http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/archives/2008/04/vote-for-the-whale/ A: When you use explosives to get rid of a dead one! Last week's story of how the U.S. military shot down a satellite carrying toxic rocket fuel brought at least a couple comparisons to Oregon's Exploding Whale. The military had lost control of the crippled satellite in late 2006 shortly ... http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/archives/2008/02/q-when-is-a-satellite-like-a-whale/ Much to my surprise, one of the Exploding Whale limericks I submitted to Bob Welch's Oregon limerick contest was chosen as the winner from the 286 submissions! This clearly says more about the unending appeal of the Exploding Whale story than it does about my ability to rhyme, but I ... http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/archives/2008/02/whale-limerick-wins-contest/ Well, it certainly didn't take long for the Exploding Whale to make an appearance on Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch's blog! I mean, seriously, what do you think he expected when, in honor of Oregon's 149th birthday (which was on Valentine's Day, February 14), Welch asked his readers to submit limericks ... http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/archives/2008/02/exploding-whale-poetry/ 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, ... http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/archives/2008/02/bob-welch-enters-the-blogosphere/ The CNN program News to Me recently aired a segment on Oregon's Exploding Whale. In addition to the original KATU video, the piece features clips from interviews with Paul Linnman and Doug Brazil, the reporter and cameraman who in 1970 documented the momentous event. While the video contains a brief, ... http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/archives/2008/02/cnn-covers-the-exploding-whale/ One of the Exploding Whale's biggest proponents strikes again! Bob Welch, a columnist for the Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), profiles Walter Umenhofer, the gentleman whose brand new Oldsmobile 88 was crushed by a 300-pound piece of dead whale sent skyward when the Oregon Highway Division detonated 20 cases of dynamite underneath ... http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/archives/2008/01/bob-welch-tracks-down-walter-umenhofer/ 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 ... http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/archives/2008/01/gamiet-animation/