http://dudespaper.com We're Blathering About... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:42:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're doing it again! We're teaming up with TheToiletPaper.com to give away free copies of our holy book, The Dude De Ching. Those are good holy books, dude. Or just buy a copy - proceeds go to our real-life Little Lebowski Urban Achievers Fund at kiva.org.]]> http://dudespaper.com/thetoiletpaper-com-dude-de-ching-giveaway-2.html/ What season is this...is this a uh...? Indeed, it's summertime, dudes. Time to put on the shades, shorts and minimal footwear and enjoy the dude times the sun has to offer. Rev. Ed Churchman weighs in on the Positive Mental Atta Dude that the fiery orb in the sky provides us for free.]]> http://dudespaper.com/keep-on-the-sunny-side.html/ Want to win a copy of the famous Lebowski Last Supper painting? The top ten donators to our kiva.org Little Lebowski Urban Achievers Fund will win these awesome artworks. Plus, we've got a special discount code if you want to buy it right now. Food for thought, dude.]]> http://dudespaper.com/lebowski-last-supper-giveaway.html/ Hey we've opened a far out new tee shirt shop featuring amazing artistic illustrations from our new Dudenheim Museum. Some of the coolest Lebowski-inspired art can now be tattooed on your tee shirt, mug, beer stein and more.]]> http://dudespaper.com/the-dudenheim-museum-tee-shirt-shop.html/ We pay respect to Esquire magazine for featuring some dudely content (various uses of the word "dude"). and briefly look at the word "Esquire" itself. It's actually a pretty dudely term if you look at it limberly.]]> http://dudespaper.com/dude-esquire.html/ Wouldn't it be great if there really was a Little Lebowski Urban Achievers foundation? Well there is now - Dudeism.com has just set up a kiva.org lending team with that very name. Now we Dudeists can help make the whole durn human comedy less of a bummer for a lot of people. Compeers, you know?]]> http://dudespaper.com/dudeism-coms-real-life-little-lebowski-urban-achievers-fund.html/ Hey we just stumbled upon a very far out diagram to figure out how to be happy. Sure, it's not your answer for everything, but it's pretty cool nonetheless. Tattoo it on your forehead, if you've got a really big forehead.]]> http://dudespaper.com/are-you-happy-you-crazy-fuck.html/ New shit has come to light! Justin Bieber is threatening to beat Jeff Bridges in a celebrity bowl hall of fame nomination. Please vote our holy avatar into the holy hall of bowling fame!]]> http://dudespaper.com/vote-for-jeff-bridges.html/ A few months after The Day of the Dude (March 6th), the good Rev. Noah Hess explains how his plans to observe the holiday in high style went a bit awry. Still, it was a purty good celebration. Parts anyway. To tell the truth, Brandt, he doesn't remember much.]]> http://dudespaper.com/the-day-of-the-dude-a-latter-day-recap.html/ The band "Banquets" has allowed the Dudespaper exclusive right to stream their new album "This is Our Concern, Dude". They're Big Big Lebowski Fans and though the songs don't reference the film, they do in fact throw rocks tonight!]]> http://dudespaper.com/this-is-our-concern-dude-the-album.html/ Once again, there's lots of cool new Lebowsk-inspired stuff out there (and in here, too). Lebowski cartoons, new plays and projects, and plenty of what-have-you. Again, we make you privy to the new shit and again you dig our style. We hope!]]> http://dudespaper.com/you-dont-draw-shit-lebowski.html/ Rev. Hieronymous Moondog presents a Dudeist koan of a piece for us to ponder. To do or to be. That is the question, one Frank Sinatra posed in idiosyncratic style. As Thoreau might have put it, the answer is simplicity itself.]]> http://dudespaper.com/dude-be-dude-be-dude.html/ Rev. Ed Churchman returns with a lighthearted Dudeist screed espousing our holy reverence for dressing casually, and when possible, not dressing at all. Human skin wasn't meant to be covered up so much, so let's enjoy the summer and let it all hang out. Rev. Ed helpfully suggests some ways you can do this and not get fired.]]> http://dudespaper.com/no-shirt-no-socks-no-stress.html/ The Buddhist magazine Tricycle just featured an article about Dudeism. For some reason they seem to think that we're a form of Buddhism. Though we dig some of the Buddhist style, there's no literal connection.]]> http://dudespaper.com/some-kinda-eastern-thing.html/ Hey you can win a free Dude Vinci tee shirt! All you have to do to enter is "LIKE" our new Facebook page.]]> http://dudespaper.com/new-facebook-page-contest.html/ Hey need someone to sympathize here? We've now got free psycho-therapy over at Dudeism.com. Doctor Dude is here to answer all your emotional problems, and what have you.]]> http://dudespaper.com/the-doctor-is-in.html/ Our dude-about-town in Singapore, Rev. Kris Leboutillier tells us a harrowing tale from his current job in Afghanistan and how a rooftop barbecue saved his life one fateful shabbos eve. Barbecues that keep you from getting killed? Those are good barbecues, dude.]]> http://dudespaper.com/barbeques-are-good-for-you.html/ Looking for some Dudeist literature to read in the tub or to enjoy your coffee with? Well, look no further than the latest project to come out of our forum lab -- The Little Lebowski. It's an acid flash-forward written by two of our talented forumites concerning what happens to the Dude and Walter fifteen years later. Now that's fucking interesting man. It's the story for its time and place.]]> http://dudespaper.com/the-little-lebowski.html/ If, as a recent Boston Globe article suggests, making mistakes is what makes us smart, then the Dude sure is a smarter feller than ourselves. It all has to do with different ways of reasoning about things. And there's no reason, no fucking reason, we shouldn't all reason a bit more like the Dude does.]]> http://dudespaper.com/the-mind-limber.html/ From his very dudely job out in the desert, Rev. Art Schaub draws a line in the sand, or an article, rather. Bringing an old story to light - Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare" - he shows how it fits right into the Dudeist canon. Down through the ages, across the sands of the Mojave desert.]]> http://dudespaper.com/slow-and-steady-wins-the-race.html/