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.

A dichotomy of parenthood and husbandry

dichotomy of parenthood and husbandry

A dichotomy of parenthood and husbandry – consider the toil of childbirth and the future demands of parenthood while a peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.

Collective abandonment of ambition

Collective abandonment of ambition

Ambition seems a restless and solitary endeavor, stern, designing, pitiless and totally self-serving. Your potential only realized by solitary accomplishment, fingers stretched towards the next appealing enchantment of rank or fame or power.

Cincinnati, corn and pigs

Cincinnati, corn and pigs

Cincinnatians may not all want to admit it, but the town will always be Pigcity – a reference to the time during the early to mid-19th century when Cincinnati was known as Porkopolis.

Pig tail – impulse vs. reason

Pig tail – impulse vs. reason

Impulse vs. reason is a constant struggle where two mutually exclusive entities move in a continuous contradiction to each other in an arduous quest to capture a pig with a slippery tail.

Thinking about ham

Thinking about ham

What do you see when you look at a pig? A kindred spirit, a creature much like you? And the very next moment, you see a beast, a stranger, just an animal. Now the pig is a fellow creature, like Freddy, Wilbur, Porky or Piglet… And now he’s just a mouthful of ham.

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