doing nearly everything in my (moderate) power to promote (and re-kindle the fascination for) the pop-culture phenomenon frederick and piggeldy once were (and i mean, honestly‚’tha streetz’ were swept clean, every time an episode of the show aired (or so I remember), BELIEVE THE HYPE!), i’m employing the two attached photographs to complement an earlier post regarding the amiable pig brothers.. they depict both an earlier as well as a later stage of the piece.. while the first and older one concerns itself with the same ballot as the one described in the mentioned earlier post (but prior to it), the second and more recent one comments on yet another rather embarrassing (yes, this proud democracy seems never to fall short of providing those) ballot outcome.. but hey! let again the pig(let)s speak for themselves:
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| frederick & piggeldy, autumn 2010 (source) |
confronting frederick forthrightly, piggeldy poses (in his rather prototypical manner) the question “after all, what is a deportation initiative exactly?”, right after opening with his trademark “hey frederick!”.. quick as a shot, frederick replies (in an apparently cynical as well as amused mood) “it is first and foremost a humanitarian swinishness [pun intended]!”
again, this dialogue took place before the infamous ballot and was immediately amended after its outcome (into the very state already rather eloquently described here).. but just months later, the pig bros speak up again, still shocked by the initial initiative.. and again, a rather discomforting ballot outcome was the bone of contention..
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| frederick & piggeldy, winter/spring 2011 |
trying to find a voice between all the screaming ads for brot und spiele, piggeldy speaks up once again “hey/yo frederick!”, only to repeat the already uttered but still kind of unanswered question “what is (again) democracy?” by now, one can not be sure if the following is just a post-traumatic and repetitious rambling or the faint echo of the first disgusted reply, but there, above the often so clever frederick, hovers, not unlike Kurtz’s last ode, (paraphrased:) “the swinishness! the swinishness!”
zürich, ch, autumn 2010 - winter/spring 2011
