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.
A Trespass of Swine
the Porkopolis blogConsiderations 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.
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.
