Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal

On June 11, 2004 an Oakland, California cat food cannery worker began keeping an online diary (known as a "web log"-or "blog" for short) to enlist the public's aid in finding the whale he alleged had eaten his wife, infant son and arm. The first few entries appear below.

On March 24, 2006, the blog was published in its entirety (as an old-fashioned book) by MacAdam/Cage. Check it out at BarnesandNoble.com and in bookstores throughout the Seven Seas.