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 am honored nonetheless. As detailed [...]

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 honoring the state’s places and [...]

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 [...]

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, unattributed screen shot of our [...]

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 a rotting whale carcass (see [...]

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. [...]