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Halloween

October 26, 2023 by Lesley Truffle

  Halloween   Halloween is big business and the festivities – which used to begin on Black Friday have morphed into a lengthy festival beginning well before October 31. It’s quite lucrative for those producing plastic pumpkins, synthetic spider webs and all manner of ‘spooky’ Halloween goods. It’s been estimated at least five million Australians … [Read more…]

Posted in: actors, art/theatre event, artists, Historical, Mythology Tagged: All Hallows Eve, Ancient Celts, Ancient Mythology, Celtic, Fire Festivals, Halloween, Halloween traditions, Headless Horsemen, Ireland, Irish, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Puća, Puća Festival, Samhain, Trim Castle Ireland

Are we amused?

August 27, 2023 by Lesley Truffle

    Are we amused?   ‘I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatize, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don’t consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny                                                                                                                                                       Wes Anderson … [Read more…]

Posted in: actors, artists, Film, films, movies, Psychology, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: American films, American movies, Laughter, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, sense of humour, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson

The Frida Kahlo Effect

June 24, 2023 by Lesley Truffle

    The Frida Khalo Effect   Frida Kahlo – named Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón  – took up painting in 1925 after a near fatal bus accident.  She was only 17 when an electric streetcar, also known as a trolley, rammed the bus she was travelling in. Khalo was left with severe damage … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, artists, Mavericks & Renegades Tagged: Art Galler of SA, Diego Rivera, Exhibition Art Gallery of South Australia, Frida and Diego: love and revolution, Frida Kahlo, Khalo, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Mexican artist, Mexican painter, Mexico, Rivera, The Gelman Collection

Hold Your Fire

April 13, 2023 by Lesley Truffle

      Hold Your Fire   Seek the company of people who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, will always try it on. Billy Connolly  – actor, comedian & writer.   We live in an era where it is astonishingly easy for pretty much anyone to be ‘cancelled’. Meantime many … [Read more…]

Posted in: actors, art/theatre event, artists, Mavericks & Renegades, Observations, Social Comment Tagged: 007, Babylon, Billy Connolly, Cancel culture, Eloise, Guernica, Hilary Knight, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Kay Thompson, Pablo Picasso, Philip Roth, Roald Dahl, Scotish actor

Botticelli’s Venus

January 24, 2023 by Lesley Truffle

Botticelli’s Venus   Goddess on the mountain top Burning like a silver flame The summit of beauty and love And Venus was her name … Venus by Robbie van Leeuwen, Shocking Blue rock band.               On a recent visit to the National Gallery of Victoria I glimpsed Jeff Koon’s stainless steel version of Venus. And … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, artists, Historical, Mythology Tagged: Birth of Venus, Botticelli, Greco-Roman mythology, Jeff Koons, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Sandro Botticelli, The Rokeby Venus, Toilet of Venus, Venus

Turn on, tune in, drop out

July 28, 2022 by Lesley Truffle

    ‘I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.’     Timothy Leary, American Psychologist 1920-1996   Drugs have a tendency to become fashionable and then fall from favour. In … [Read more…]

Posted in: artists, Fashion, Mavericks & Renegades, Observations, Psychology Tagged: Dr Sigmund Freud, drugs, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Freud, Leary, LSD, magic mushrooms, Presley, Richard Nixon, Sigmund Freud, Timothy Leary

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

January 27, 2022 by Lesley Truffle

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes   ‘I overheard Dorothy tell Major Falcon that she liked to become intoxicated once in a dirty while.’ Lorelei Lee from Anita Loos novella, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.   One of my favourite books is a hardcover 1926, tenth edition of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. So popular was Anita Loos’ novella that … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, artists, Film, Historical, Mavericks & Renegades, movies, writers & creatives Tagged: America, American, Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hollywood, Hollywood Movies, Howard Hawks, Jane Russell, Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Monroe, movies

Ritual Madness

June 27, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

Ritual Madness   The Ancient Greeks were enthralled by opposing forces and heavily invested in two of their gods, Apollo and Dionysus. Apollo was the god of reason and wisdom – devoted to logical thinking, patience and duty. Dionysus was significantly more adventurous and dealt in the realms of imagination, play and chaos. Dionysus – … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, artists, Mavericks & Renegades, Observations, Psychology Tagged: Ancient Greeks, Apollo, Bacchus, Black Rock Desert Nevada, Burning Man, Burning Man Festival, Dionysus, Greek gods, Larry Harvey, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer

Naked in Leopard Skin

April 26, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

Naked in Leopard Skin Born into Italian aristocracy in 1881 and heiress to a fortune made in cotton, Luisa Casati managed to run up personal debts of $25 million.  She and her sister had been orphaned when both parents died and Luisa was only fifteen years old. The Marchesa Casati was a devotee of the … [Read more…]

Posted in: artists, Fashion, Historical, Observations, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: Cecil Beaton, Jean Cocteau, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Luisa Casati, Marchesa Casati, Marchesa Luisa Casati, Pablo Picasso, Surrealism, Surrealists, The Ritz, Venice

Romancing the Mushroom

March 25, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  Romancing the Mushroom   pine mushrooms live a thousand years in one autumn             Den Sutejo 1633-1698 (translated by Makoto Ueda) Autumn in Melbourne is a fine time to take a trip to the Prahran Market and visit the wild mushroom man, Damien Pike. For many years he’s been sourcing and selling mushrooms. Much … [Read more…]

Posted in: artists, Historical, Mavericks & Renegades, Mythology, Nature Tagged: Alice in Wonderland, Ancient Mythology, Damien Pike, elves, F.W. Rolfe, fairies, fungi, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Melbourne, Mycology, Prahran Market, R.T. Rolfe, The Romance of the Fungus World, witches

25 Cats and One Blue Pussy

February 8, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  25 Cats Named Sam And One Blue Pussy   The reason I hate regular underwear – and socks, too – is that if you send twenty pairs of shorts and twenty pairs of socks to the laundromat, you always only get nineteen back. Even when I wash them myself, I get nineteen back. The more I think about … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, artists, books, Fashion, Mavericks & Renegades, Social Comment Tagged: 25 Cats name Sam and one Blue Pussy, Andy Warhol, Cat, Cats, Cats Named Sam and One Blue Pussy, Elizbeth Taylor, Julia Warhola, Liz Taylor, Pop Art, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Warhol

Venus in Steel

January 13, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  Venus in Steel   He has the slimy assurance, the gross patter about transcendence through art, of a blow-dried Baptist selling swamp acres in Florida. And the result is that you can’t imagine America’s singularly depraved culture without him.                                                                                                                                                     Robert Hughes on Jeff Koons.   Jeff Koons has always been a divisive … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, artists, Australia, Melbourne, writers & creatives Tagged: Andy Warhol, Australia, Ilona Staller, Jeff Koons, Koons, La Cicciolina, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Melbourne, NGV, NGV Melbourne, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Venus, Venus de Milo, Warhol, Wilhelm Christian Myer

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