A Trespass of Swine

the Porkopolis blog

Considerations of humanity and hogritude, because an insufficiency of pigs is one of the great faults of all that the gods have made manifest to man.

Captain Cook’s Pig Farm

G'day, Pig. Choice, Bro!

If you go to the antipodes of this world – Australia and New Zealand – you will see marsupials hopping about the countryside. But this is also Captain Cook’s Pig Farm, so you’ll find pigs there, as well. This anthology looks at the poetic potential of pigs as viewed by Australians and New Zealanders.

Porciphone by Max Vandervorst

Porciphone by Max Vandervorst

Max Vandervorst created the Porciphone, a musical instrument that utilizes a set of tuned PVC tubes into which Vandervorst squeezes ubber squeaky pigs to grunt into them.

The arbitrary scrutiny of our circumstances

scrutiny of circumstance

An old boar’s toast to the circumstances of his life and all the blame and credit he has received. Considerations of what we each deserve as well as what do we get.

Roochie Toochie & The Ragtime Shepherd Kings

Roochie Toochie

Roochie Toochie & The Ragtime Shepherd Kings – performing the weirdest songs from the early days of tin pan alley and recording them on honest​-​to​-goodness wax cylinders.

A random image of a pig, hog, boar or swine from the collection at Porkopolis.