Sabbatical – June 2013
Please root around a bit while I am away with some friends on a brief summer sabbatical. See you at the end of the month… Thank you for visiting.
Theme is new & improved
Today a new and totally redesigned site theme debuts at Porkopolis.org. The site continues to be powered by WordPress, and the underlying code for this new theme is built using Justin Tadlock’s ThemeHybrid and the content remains 100% Pure Pork (mostly).
Translations removed
So it has been said that St. Anthony’s favorite swine could speak, even when other groveling pigs could only squeak. Unfortunately, from today, the only ‘foreign’ translations available here will be our pig-Latinized ‘lorem ipsum’ — “Oremlay ipsumyay olorday itsay ametyay, onsectetuercay adipiscingyay elityay.”. The translation service from the WordPress plugin, Global Translator, has been terminated.
Swineherds, grammar & social injustice
Here are photos from the second place winner in the Alexia Foundation’s 2010 student competition promoting photojournalism as an agent for change against social injustice.
“Swineherd: the salaried gypsy with a domestic mind” was submitted by Muhammad Murtada, a native of Bangladesh, and a third year photojournalism student at Pathshala, the South Asian Media Academy.
A waste of swine
The abstraction of pigs and gods is an act of individuals, but the idea of an “offering” is merely the throwing away of substance for a payment of shadows.
Porkopolis Inspires Artist
This site received a singular honor a few days ago. A work of art was created with the enchantress, Circe, and Porkopolis.org as the inspiration. The artist, Red Queen’s Elf, was included in the Porkopolis Art Museum’s recent exhibition, The Courtiers of Circe, with her work, Circe’s Fandango. After being notified of her inclusion in [...]
March 2011 – In and Out Like A Pig
A review of major happenings at Porkopolis.org for March 2011: blog posts on the Lords of Lard, the Reprint Series opens and a major theme upgrade is rolled out.
National Pig Day 2011
The offices at Porkopolis.org added a new indoor pool and mud wallow in December of 2010. The pigs and I have been taking some time off to enjoy these treats and recompose our sensibilities. We have also been working behind the scenes on a few projects we will be unveiling in March: the first issue [...]
Blicky Leech and the Christmas Pig
“I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,” said the Spirit. ” Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!” — The Ghost of Christmas Present from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Here is a Dickensian name for a Dickens illustrator. The artist John Leech, aka: “Blicky” to his friends, is [...]
Self-sacrifice
It was with particular interest that I noticed how last week’s episode of $#*! (Bleep) My Dad Says on CBS television mentioned a pig that willingly went to slaughter.
