National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
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.
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Poetry Updates for April 2010
In the Porkopolis.org Library, poetry updates for mid-April include: an eccentric Anglican; a moveable feast; diction adapted to a certain class of readers; lawyers, not pigs in time of famine; hogs and men hunted and penned in an inglorious spot; and lastly, perpetual promises, but to no good ends. The poet Robert Peters discusses Gyp, … Read more
Russell, Gregory, Yeats and the Black Pig
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.
Reading Room Re-opens
Renovations of the Reading Room in the Arnold Ziffel Memorial Library are complete and it has reopened to visitors.