23rd April, 2010
National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day. Mangalitza pigs are literally pigs in blankets. This is not a food entry on cabbage rolls; it’s a blanket statement and a shaggy hog story.
Posted in Culture, Food, Vocabulary | Tagged Austria, bacon, euphemism, extinction, fishing, France, Hungary, Lincolnshire Curly Coat, Mangalitza, Pig-in-a-Blanket, prosciutto, Samuel Butler, sheep-pig, Switzerland, wool |
13th April, 2010
A new work of art has been added to the Porkopolis.org Art Museum. For me it is also the point of departure for considering how friends might utilize humor as a tension reliever and a coping mechanism for momentarily dispelling their concerns over the consequential matters that embroiled their days. Here, the humor employed is sarcasm and the implementation is through a humorous drawing of a pig and bit of doggerel.
Posted in Culture, Personal, Representation | Tagged A.E., Black Pig, George Russell, Ireland, Lady Gregory, Terence Brown, W.B. Yeats |
4th February, 2010
These are the pale deaths which men miscall pigs’ lives…
Posted in Culture, Food, Representation, Soapbox | Tagged butcher, fate, inevitable, oracle, snout |
29th December, 2009
My granddaughter and I share a preference for pig pajamas.
Posted in Culture, Personal, Representation | Tagged pajamas |
22nd October, 2009
In 1995 I became a Geocities homesteader. Pigs had been on my mind already for many years. And, because “pig” was probably the first word I typed into the first search engine I ever used, I knew pigs were under represented on the web. I was inspired to do something about that. My mission was clear and the concept of “Porkopolis” was born.
Posted in Culture, Encoding, Flight, Personal, Soapbox | Tagged creating content, CSS, Geocities, homesteading, HTML, Myspace, new frontier, swineherd, XHTML, Yahoo! |
14th June, 2009
Subvert your fear of the H1N1 Snoutbreak. Clothe yourself in fashionable armor that announces your indifference. Socio-industrial collapse? Baaah!
Posted in Culture, Representation, Vocabulary | Tagged aporkalypse, armor, clothing, crackling, Dark Ages, DNA, H1N1, hamageddon, hamdemic, haute couture, hog, influenza, mutation, New Pig Corporation, partisan, Partners In Grime, pink plague, re-assortment, snoutbreak, socio-industrial collapse, swine flu, t-shirt, tie, viral plague, virus |
6th June, 2009
Give in to self-gratification. Be a mettlesome member of popular culture. Use Obamicon.Me to create an influential and iconic image of you or your cause.
Posted in Culture, Encoding, Personal, Representation, Soapbox | Tagged Barack Obama, Flickr, gorilla marketing, H1N1, HOPE, Obamicon, political illustration, Politics, self-gratification, Shepard Fairey, swine flu, tagging |
25th April, 2009
The aerodynamic potential of pigs has long been debated. Is that plump body a proper fuselage? Can a curvilinear tail assembly function as a rudder? Will cloven appendages withstand the stress of landing? And, eh… Just where are the wings? Perhaps only the Walrus knows.
Posted in Culture, Flight | Tagged A.A. Milne, Ambrose Bierce, Andrew Leicester, Brabazon, Carefree Sugarless Gum, euphemism, G.K. Chesterton, Hayao Miyazaki, John Withals, Lewis Carroll, National Pork Producers Council, pigaleian, Porco Rosso, Porculus, Smithfield Foods, walrus |
5th April, 2009
There are still some banks with an untarnished reputation as the first quarter of 2009 rolls out. Don’t trust those bonus-focused big bankers, trust your pig!
Posted in Culture, Representation, Soapbox | Tagged banking, finance, piggy bank |