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Blog Posts
by Date & Title

• 12/03/22 — Meerut Pig Sticking Trophy
• 10/24/22 — A living oracle
• 10/09/22 — HAM:9000
• 05/01/21 — Flesh of Encircling Joy
• 12/22/18 — Christmas Sucking Pig
• 06/11/18 — Captain Cook’s Pig Farm
• 03/14/17 — Porciphone by Max Vandervorst
• 01/30/17 — The arbitrary scrutiny of our circumstances
• 01/15/17 — Wisdom from an anonymous swineherd to his charges
• 12/26/16 — Roochie Toochie & The Ragtime Shepherd Kings
• 12/15/16 — Christmas 2016 – wishing you joy & wonder
• 08/31/16 — Sabbatical 2016
• 08/15/16 — Pig-headed fool – everyone thinks their opinion matters
• 07/30/16 — Mama pig
• 07/21/16 — Pigs in the open air
• 07/15/16 — Last things
• 06/30/16 — Shadows and forms
• 06/15/16 — Pork avoidance
• 05/30/16 — The pig pen and Bob Dylan
• 05/15/16 — Churchill – pigs look at a human
• 04/30/16 — Raft of sanity
• 04/15/16 — Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts
• 03/31/16 — Rest and contemplation
• 03/18/16 — DaBoonDox
• 03/15/16 — Sow of circumstances
• 03/03/16 — National Pig Day 2016 (belatedly)
• 02/15/16 — Pythia – a day of my life
• 01/30/16 — Swimming in the fundamental medium
• 01/15/16 — Mud wrestling: it’s a good day to get dirty
• 12/30/15 — 2016: a new year – a radiant plan
• 12/21/15 — Three Little Pigs @ Christmas
• 12/18/15 — May your holiday be piggin’ perfect!
• 12/15/15 — Fatalistic swine – every cliff has its measure
• 11/30/15 — Finance and Disclosure
• 11/15/15 — Proportion and provision is a pig’s life story
• 10/28/15 — Pumpkin spice saturation ~ Happy Halloween!
• 10/15/15 — ‘The Over Rooting Suitor’ from Everypig’s Zen
• 09/30/15 — Wasting time
• 09/15/15 — An impatient interlude – the folly of pigs & humans
• 09/07/15 — Charlotte’s Web a target for censorship
• 08/30/15 — A carousel of aging, love & simple pleasures
• 08/15/15 — Pigs and wooing men
• 07/30/15 — Dreams and the dawn
• 07/15/15 — Heirloom of all swine
• 07/06/15 — Styfall – dropped GoPro camera snuffled by pig
• 06/30/15 — Well-being is a wallow
• 06/15/15 — A little cold pig-snouted breeze
• 06/08/15 — Christien Meindertsma and Pig 05049
• 05/30/15 — Once upon a time
• 05/21/15 — Sandra Boynton – “When Pigs Fly”
• 05/15/15 — The stubbornness of pigs
• 05/07/15 — Christopher Walken reads “The Three Little Pigs”
• 04/30/15 — The surname Porco
• 04/15/15 — Hope, faith and pig banks
• 04/10/15 — Building a Learned Pig – Pinchbeck and The Expositor
• 04/09/15 — Den of Pigs
• 03/30/15 — All things under the moon
• 03/24/15 — Whoopee in the Cushion
• 03/22/15 — Sow’s Purse Occasional Video Series
• 03/15/15 — Nature speaks in pigs
• 03/01/15 — Lousy Doggeral
• 02/15/15 — Learning smells of grass and pigs
• 01/30/15 — Half man half pig
• 01/15/15 — The pig she rides
• 12/30/14 — Life that roots like a snout
• 12/15/14 — Christmas Boar’s Head
• 11/30/14 — Pondering hog heaven
• 11/16/14 — Mobius bacon equivocation
• 10/30/14 — Kitchen keepsakes
• 10/15/14 — Little pig, little pig
• 09/30/14 — Change – is it time or is it… pigs
• 09/17/14 — Dragons, pigs and Canadian poetry
• 09/01/14 — Always be on the way
• 08/15/14 — Shadows
• 07/30/14 — Sex and pigs
• 07/15/14 — Bacon Bikini
• 06/30/14 — Lover and pig
• 06/15/14 — Creatures of the slaughterhouse
• 05/30/14 — Time and memory
• 05/15/14 — Athwart history
• 04/30/14 — Kierkegaard and the Lüneburg pig
• 04/15/14 — The gods are not just rooting for the humans
• 03/30/14 — The Rooting Moon
• 03/15/14 — The road is everywhere
• 03/01/14 — National Pig Day – 2014
• 02/17/14 — Food Network Magazine – the bacon issue
• 02/15/14 — Snow pigs
• 01/30/14 — Football is the pig
• 01/17/14 — Pig of spirit
• 12/30/13 — Swinish multitude
• 12/15/13 — Mrs. Pinchbeck’s Ballet School for Gilts
• 11/30/13 — Afternoon indiscretions of swineherds and their swine
• 11/15/13 — Piggy bank asset recovery
• 10/30/13 — Truffle love
• 10/15/13 — First Manhattan…
• 09/30/13 — A dichotomy of parenthood and husbandry
• 09/15/13 — Collective abandonment of ambition
• 08/30/13 — Cincinnati, corn and pigs
• 08/15/13 — Pig tail – impulse vs. reason
• 07/31/13 — Thinking about ham
• 07/15/13 — Sleep and pigs
• 07/04/13 — Bacon, loss and change
• 06/15/13 — Sabbatical – June 2013
• 05/30/13 — Contemplation of pigs in the rain
• 05/15/13 — The ecstasy of children with animals
• 04/30/13 — The Pig Chef – a sinister advertising icon
• 04/15/13 — Frolicking swine enjoy the sunshine
• 03/30/13 — Cannibal, man and pig
• 03/15/13 — Wreath of pigs
• 02/28/13 — I know you want to eat me… So bite me!
• 02/15/13 — Livestock or pal
• 01/30/13 — Pigfish
• 01/15/13 — Interdependent living
• 12/30/12 — Persistent in adversity
• 12/15/12 — Culinary pragmatism
• 11/29/12 — To an optimist, even the smallest puddle is a wallow
• 11/21/12 — Pig poetry updates – November, 2012
• 11/15/12 — A Muse will not chase a pig
• 10/30/12 — The contentment of pigs
• 10/15/12 — Swine wine
• 09/30/12 — Gluttony and ambition
• 09/15/12 — Appetite and the social contract
• 08/30/12 — Gypsy pig parts
• 08/15/12 — Root hog
• 07/30/12 — God’s opinion of the pig
• 07/15/12 — A pig is a pig
• 06/30/12 — Mud as dirt or life essence
• 06/15/12 — Acceptance and self-sacrifice?
• 05/30/12 — The pig and the circle of life
• 05/15/12 — Circe as a child
• 04/30/12 — Piece of bacon
• 04/15/12 — Pig flight
• 03/30/12 — Bacon grease
• 03/15/12 — Pork and posies
• 03/11/12 — Pig poetry updates – Spring, 2012
• 02/28/12 — An instigator like a pig’s snout
• 02/19/12 — Are you waiting for destinies?
• 01/31/12 — A woman’s love
• 01/15/12 — Art, hogs and gods
• 12/30/11 — The guinea pig
• 12/15/11 — The pork butcher’s daughter
• 11/30/11 — Gluttons and the goods of this world
• 11/15/11 — The form of a pig
• 10/30/11 — Delight in existing
• 10/15/11 — A complacent hog
• 09/30/11 — A dead pig’s smile
• 09/19/11 — Theme is new & improved
• 09/15/11 — Workday’s End
• 08/30/11 — Swinehood hath no remedy
• 08/15/11 — A jolly companion
• 07/31/11 — Virtue is stopped at all frontiers
• 07/17/11 — Discomforting Junctions
• 06/30/11 — The gods watch all our planning
• 06/15/11 — Only pigs read at table
• 06/08/11 — Translations removed
• 05/31/11 — The lesson of the truffle pig
• 05/24/11 — Swineherds, grammar & social injustice
• 05/13/11 — A waste of swine
• 05/06/11 — Saddled Pigs, part 1
• 04/29/11 — Courting whilst making sausages
• 04/26/11 — Porkopolis Inspires Artist
• 04/17/11 — Circe in Art and Poetry
• 04/15/11 — In the bags of credulous fools
• 03/31/11 — March 2011 – In and Out Like A Pig
• 03/28/11 — Lords of Lard, part 2
• 03/25/11 — Pigs carried on the shoulders of swineherds…
• 03/19/11 — Lords of Lard, part 1
• 03/15/11 — By Force in the Guise of Husbandry
• 03/01/11 — National Pig Day 2011
• 12/20/10 — Blicky Leech and the Christmas Pig
• 12/04/10 — The Votaries of Circe
• 10/12/10 — Self-sacrifice
• 08/21/10 — Swine Are Sentimentalists
• 07/03/10 — WordPress 3.0 Pigged
• 05/23/10 — Pigs Parachute into Pimlico
• 04/23/10 — National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
• 04/18/10 — Poetry Updates for April 2010
• 04/13/10 — Russell, Gregory, Yeats and the Black Pig
• 03/30/10 — A Wolf Loves Pork
• 03/21/10 — Reading Room Re-opens
• 03/17/10 — St. Patrick’s Day 2010
• 03/05/10 — Pig of Happiness
• 03/01/10 — National Pig Day 2010
• 02/27/10 — Memory Hogs
• 02/04/10 — The Inevitable Fate of Pigs
• 12/29/09 — Pig Pajamas
• 11/30/09 — Blue Beanie Day 2009
• 10/29/09 — Goodbye
• 10/22/09 — Geocities Closes
• 08/29/09 — OPIGO
• 07/14/09 — Cloudspotting Pigs
• 06/14/09 — Hog Haute Couture for After the Snoutbreak
• 06/06/09 — Obamicon Oink
• 05/09/09 — Vitruvian Swine and Flying Pigs – Redux
• 04/25/09 — A Brief History of Pigs and Flight
• 04/18/09 — Life as a pig, in two parts
• 04/12/09 — Bacon Janes
• 04/05/09 — Financial Woes? There’s a pig for that!
• 03/23/09 — Wonderella
• 03/09/09 — FeedBurner Barbecue
• 03/02/09 — Belated Blue Beanie Day
• 02/23/09 — Bacon, Poetry and Love
• 01/28/09 — Winter Pig
• 01/04/09 — The Cook by Arcimboldo
• 12/12/08 — WordPress Pigged
• 11/29/08 — The Vitruvian Swine
• 10/15/08 — Clare Leighton
• 09/27/08 — HER! [GIRL VS PIG]
• 09/27/08 — Bacon Brothers
• 09/27/08 — Fengjing and Shar Pei
• 09/27/08 — First Pig to Fly – Lord Brabazon
• 09/27/08 — Schweinhunt
• 09/27/08 — Snout Trails
• 09/27/08 — pig Latinized “Lorem Ipsum”
• 09/27/08 — Got Milk?
• 09/27/08 — Laa-Laa’s Pigtail
• 09/27/08 — Pigasus the Immortal
• 09/27/08 — Porky Pig Postage Stamp
• 09/27/08 — Figurski at Findhorn on Acid
• 09/27/08 — Sawyer Point Park, Cincinnati
• 09/27/08 — PIG2K
• 09/27/08 — SlipKnot and The PC Pig
• 09/27/08 — Tacopig
• 09/27/08 — Belted