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No Frame of Reference #11

Section: No Frame of Reference | July 3rd, 2009  

After a nice vacation the Arch Dudeship has returned to town bearing gifts both amusing and heartfelt. After several months The Brotherhood Shamus has amassed a large repository of prayers and he shares some of them with us. It offers a glimpse into the collective Dudeist consciousness. The parlance of our sighs.

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Keeping the Baksheesh

Section: What-Have-You | July 2nd, 2009  

Rev. Ryan Colt Weber provides some financial advice worthy of Suze Orman herself, if she were a Dudeist — stop spending so much goddamn money on crap. He provides the first in a series of suggestions for how to “keep the baksheesh.” Your fucking troubles are over, dude.

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Rock and Rolling Out Naked: What’s an Air Guitar Hero?

Section: Other Events | June 29th, 2009  

Air Guitar is no longer something you do behind closed doors while jumping on the bed and drunk. It’s now a bona-fide art form, and has been commended as strongly radical. Crash Winfield watched the semis in the City of Angels and found it equally stupefyin’ and spectacular. You can still get drunk, though.

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This Isolationism Will Not Stand, Man

Section: What-Have-You | June 24th, 2009  

Our mang-on-the-scene Chalupa reports on the current kerfuffle regarding Jeff Bridges’ pitching Hyundai cars. We’re talking about unchecked objections, man. Basic free market freedoms!

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Mixed Up In All This, Dude

Section: Lebowskia | June 22nd, 2009  

One of the great things about The Big Lebowski is its soundtrack. But after you’ve listened to it a thousand times, you need something else to drown out the voices. Finally, there’s original(ish) music based on The Big Lebowski. We’re throwin’ rock tonight!

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Lebowskitheory at Dude University

Section: Dude University | June 18th, 2009  

Lisa Donald has closed her Lebowskitheory site, but she’s graciously allowed us to publish her award-breaking material at our very own Dude University. The beauty of her theory is not its simplicity (lotta ins, lotta outs), but its genius, if we understand it correctly. Come take a gander.

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The Urbane Ad-chievers

Section: Dudespatches | June 16th, 2009  

We love to get free stuff. Which is why we were happy to find a cool new downloadable cultural dictionary today. Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch — it was put together by an ad agency, so there might be some subliminal manipulation going on. As a precaution, read it with your sunglasses on.

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The White Russian Revolution

Section: What-Have-You | June 14th, 2009  

Not everyone can enjoy our sacred beverage (the White Russian) without suffering a bout of gastric distress. To those lactose intolerant in our holy herd we offer some alternative recipes. And just for the hell of it we also look into the history of lactose tolerance and how it shaped our modern world. Careful man, there’s a beverage here!

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The Relaxed Supper

Section: Dudels | June 11th, 2009  

Dudeist art is still growing as a field of earnest artistic appreciation. And with this latest offering — a Lebowskian take on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” — it’s about time to get started on a bona fide Dudeseum. We commend it strongly.

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The Parlance of our (Trying) Times

Section: Dudespatches | June 8th, 2009  

When it comes to the economy, it’s not all bad news out there. In fact, the rejigging of the national consciousness has given birth to several cool and very Dudeist new concepts. We review “Staycation,” “Funemployment” and “Resexssion” here. Crash Winfield reports.

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The Gospel According to the Hit Man and the Dude

Section: Sermons From the Sofa | May 30th, 2009  

Halledudeyeah! Arch Dudeship Dwayne Eutsey serves up a “Sermon from the Sofa” so durn innarestin’ it’ll make you laugh to beat the band. It’s an extended, thoughtful rumination on movies, religion and the transformative power of a profound tale told well. And he didn’t even use any cuss words, either.

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Expanding the Dudeist Demographic, Part 2

Section: What-Have-You | May 22nd, 2009  

The Big Lebowski is beloved by everyone, and we’ve got proof. YouTube is loaded with tributes to the film by folks of all ages and backgrounds. We feature one of the latest and greatest — the bathroom scene as envisioned by a bunch of (not-on-the) rug-rats.

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Does This Ancient Female Form Make You Uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski?

Section: Dudespatches | May 21st, 2009  

Do you like sex? The physical act of love? Coitus? Well, guess what — so did our ancient forebears. We’re privy to the old smut: Seems they found the oldest example of erotic art in Germany the other day. Arch Dudeship Dwayne Eutsey makes us hip to the ins and outs.

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The Dude’s Prayer at Lebowskifest

Section: Dudespatches | May 14th, 2009  

Want to see how The Church of the Latter-Day Dude opened last week’s Los Angeles Lebowskifest? We’ve got footage, man. New digital information has come to light.

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Dude University!

Section: Dude University | May 14th, 2009  

For all those Dudes out there looking to earn a Ph.Dude degree, Dude University is the place. Now you have the necessary means, necessary means to achieve the modest task which is your charge!

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Zen and the Art of Kidnapping Ourselves

Section: Sermons From the Sofa | May 13th, 2009  

Rev. Hugh Slesinger shows us how to catch ourselves further on down the trail on the paths of our lives — by kidnapping ourselves. Hasn’t that ever occurred to you man…sir? Rev. Hugh shows us how to find a trophy life, in the parlance of our times. Help is choppering out…

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I Could Be Sitting Here With Just Pee-Stains On My Policy

Section: Notes on the Cycle | May 6th, 2009  

Are health insurance companies trying to scam anyone here, man? Rev. Chalupa from Lebowskipodcast.com fell face down in the muck of bureacracy and (so far!) has lived to tell about it. But by remaining very Dude about it all, he listened and learned something. We can too.

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Dudeism at the L.A. Lebowskifest

Section: Dudespatches | April 29th, 2009  

Dudeism will be proudly featured at the L.A. Lebowskifest this May 7-8. Come show your support for the world’s slowest-growing religion. And that’s Dudeism. In Los Angeles. It’s the canon for its time and place.

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Dealing with the UnDude

Section: The Swedish Jeff | April 20th, 2009  

Enjoy a smorgasbord of Swedish Dudeism as our man in the coolest northern territory Reverend John Jansson holds forth on a sizzling topic: How do we deal with the un-Dude? After a thurrah investigation, he provides us with an inspirational Dude’s prayer to keep our minds (and souls) limber.

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I Sure Hope We Make it to the Lebowskifest

Section: Lebowskia | April 11th, 2009  

All religions need to have a holy pilgrimage, and Dudeism is blessed by the fact that there are many held each year. We’re talking about Lebowskifest, here. These amazing summits of trancendental Dudeness are to the true Dudeist what Mecca is to the Moslem, Jerusalem is to the Judeo-Christian, and Vegas is to worshippers of Satan. Pack your friends into the Gran Torino, or security van, and be there, man! Arch Dudeship Dwayne Eutsey reports.

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