Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
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.
Yesterday was National Pig Day. Porkopolis.org’s coding difficulties have been [fingers crossed] corrected. The Porkopolis blog is now free foraging and open for examination and comments. So I have placed my Blue Beanie Day image here, and await Blue Beanie Day #3 in November 2009.
I have added the poem Bacon by Badger Clark to the poetry section of the Library. Also, Heather Lauer over at Bacon Unwrapped has a new book – Bacon: A Love Story – 244 pages of fun, facts, recipes and resources about the best meat ever.
I thought of the engulfing silence always created by cold and falling snow as I looked out the front window of our house, imagining as “Winter Pig”, in a watercolor by James Wyeth, as she pondered that same engulfing silence of snow from the front door of he sty.
The Cook by Italian artist and designer, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (ca.1527 – 1593) has been added to the Porkopolis Museum of Art. In this work the painting of a platter of roast suckling pigs and fowls, when inverted, shows us the image of a man’s head – the cook. This work is one of Arcimboldo’s many … Read more
The Porkopolis.org blog, “A Trespass of Swine,” is officially opened today. It is powered by WordPress and the theme is my own custom adaptation of the default WordPress theme Kubrick.
