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Happy Kerabotsmas

December 12, 2010 ~ Filed Under: Events

donnie is the walrus What’s Kerabotsmas, Dude?

It’s one of our High Holidays. Kerabotsmas (December 13th) is the Dudeish day of Rest. So that’s what you call it.

Then again, to be honest, every day is a Dudeish Day of Rest. Devout Dudeists try to be at rest even when they’re working. That means we don’t get aggravated while driving a car, we don’t worry too much about money, we don’t put our heads in the oven and we sure as shit don’t fucking role-play at being more important than anyone else. But on Kerabotsmas we truly try to remember how to be restful at a time when the whole world is going crazy!

On this (very high) Dudeist holiday we burn a jay (or a candle) and think of our patron saint of the peaceful, St. Donald of Kerabatsos. While Donnie was a good man and a good bowler, what he was especially good at was not letting the bastards get him down — even donniewhen one of those bastards was his best friend Walter Sobchak. The gutterballs of the world rolled off of his back just as smoothly as the Dude rolled off of the back of Our Maude. That’s how the whole durn human comedy keeps perpetuatin’ itself (without killing itself in the process).

This time of year can be a stressful time for everyone. There’s a lot of pressure in regards to relationships and gift-giving and spending money and trying to keep up the culturally-engineered holiday hubbub. In these tough times, we recommend adopting the languid, easygoing posture of St. Donald, who was perennially out of his element.

But of course, when the elements are rough, the best approach can be to remain out of them entirely. Like staying in your private residence instead of driving all over town looking to solve a case with no payoff. (Tip: Stay out of the malls, Lebowski! If you have to buy shit, order everything online.)

donnie3Of course, we didn’t like seeing Donnie go. He died like so many young men, before his time. In your wisdom you took him, world of pain. Perhaps it was his way of takin er easy for us sinners.

In any event, his life is a reminder that life is short and you might as well not spend a lot of time worrying about stuff. Donnie sure didn’t. And that may have been his greatest accomplishment. What a bummer it would have been if he had.

So on this hallowed holy day, let us all shut the fuck up and observe a moment of silence for Donnie, who shut the fuck up forever that fateful night outside the Dude and Walter’s favorite bowling alley, back in 1991, nearly twenty years ago. He was one of us. Rest the fuck up Donnie! Good night, sweet prince.

donnie4Below are two Facebook pages for Kerabotsmas this year. Sorry we didn’t get more on the ball and organize a proper event. Next year!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152898971395325&ref=mf

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156369997722929

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  1. J.J. Vicars says

    December 12, 2010 at 11:41 pm

    Nice way of looking at Donnie. Very cool.

  2. Arch Dude Of York says

    December 13, 2010 at 4:00 am

    A-Fuckin-Men! Take er easy Dudes!

  3. Rev. Scott says

    December 13, 2010 at 12:34 pm

    Roll on, Donnie, Roll on

  4. Fuzz Dude says

    December 13, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    Abide and relax dudes =]

    have a good one

  5. ozzy85 says

    December 13, 2010 at 8:26 pm

    One has to wonder if Donnie was the most Dude of them all. It’s not he worried if the aggression will stand or not. He just let it go by.

    I never thought of that before.

  6. Brent & Christy Weber says

    December 13, 2010 at 8:49 pm

    Were all throwing rocks tonight. Mark it, Dude.

  7. Doctor Joe says

    December 13, 2010 at 9:26 pm

    A very fitting tribute indeed. I agree with ozzy85 that perhaps Donnie was the Greatest Dude of them all. Quiet, relaxed, taking the world in stride, even when Walter continually verbally abused him he just kept on keeping on. I’ll watch TBL again with this thought in mind. Maybe we should have an award in his honour at the next Lebowskifest?

  8. The "Guy" Finden says

    December 15, 2010 at 10:56 am

    take it easy donnie

  9. Klugewerk says

    December 14, 2011 at 3:23 am

    Dudes, what happened to Kerabotsmas for 12/13/2011?

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