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Section: Dude Simple | March 13th, 2010
Rev. Ed Churchman pours us a tall cool one in honor of St. Patrick’s Day — a look at what it truly means to keep your mind limber. Hint: getting totally wasted on whiskey does not make it limber, it makes it limp. But the other danger is that of a rigid mind. How do we move through life limberly, like those maligned snakes old Patty drove out of Ireland? The honorable Reverend explains.
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Section: Dear Dudely | March 7th, 2010
This just in: an elderly Dude ruminates on the way he’s planning to exit stage left from this whole durn human comedy. It’s an inspiring and funny letter that we all could learn something from, if we listened occasionally.
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Section: No Frame of Reference | March 6th, 2010
Happy Day of the Dude everybody! Are you happy, you crazy fucks? Well, if you’re not, then this gem of a sermon by the Arch Dudeship Dwayne Eutsey should take the edge off some. It is a paean to all Dudeist things, both great and small, strikes and gutters, ups and what-have-you. Aside from honoring several great dudes in history the good Rev. also points out some other innarestin’ things that have also happened on March 6th and which have a literal connection to Dudeism!
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Section: Pin Dudeism | March 1st, 2010
Just in time for the Academy Awards, Rev. Hieronymous Moondog runs into a curious someone at the Duder Bar. It’s a feller who bears an incredible resemblance to Bad Blake, the character Jeff Bridges portrays in Crazy Heart — the performance we’re all hoping JB wins an award for. Some innerestin’ parallels between Crazy Heart and The Big Lebowski, and this wise feller enlightens us to them.
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Section: Dude Simple | February 22nd, 2010
Rev. Ed Churchman bowls another big one to us from old blighty, explaining how the Levellers movement helped usher in a much more Dudeist way of life for the British. Though their methods could be a bit on the Sobchak side, they paved the way for future Dude movements all over the world. Now every man’s bungalow is his mansion.
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Section: No Frame of Reference | February 19th, 2010
Arch Dudeship Dwayne Eutsey returns with a joyfully rambling rumination on a host of Dudeist topics, from George Carlin to the Port Huron Statement to the End of the World As We Know it. If the end is indeed near, then we all better take er easy as fast as we possibly can! And if it isn’t, well then, uh, same strategy. That about wraps er up!
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Section: Dude Simple | February 6th, 2010
Rev. Ed Churchman looks at the relationship between Dudeist holy folks (Dudeciples) and the Dudeist lay population (Dudes). Just as with other religions, we need both the fully dudevout and the deeply casual — the Dudeist high-erarchy happily welcomes followers of varying dudegrees.
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Section: Notes on the Cycle | January 21st, 2010
Our man on the cinematic scene, Chalupa from Lebowskipodcast chimes in with this heartfelt paean to the suffering of dolphins and current efforts to help them - including a dramatic activist movie called The Cove. The Dude minds too, man. Check out the clip of Jeff Bridges talking about dolphins on the Conan O’Brien show.
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Section: Guest Columns | January 14th, 2010
Rev. Diana Diaz takes a look at the incredible (and powerful) vagueness of the word “dude”, making the point that since it can apply to everything, it should also apply to women. We couldn’t agree more, dude.
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Section: Surprised at my Tears | January 11th, 2010
Italian Dudeship Andrea Favro takes a look at one of the gutters in the bowling tournament of life — depression. He’s got a few great tips to help us always look on the bright side of life. Even when darkness warshes over.
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Section: Dude Simple | January 10th, 2010
You’ve probably heard of the Chinese art of feng shui, but get ready for rén shui, the Dudeist art of really tying your room together. Reverend Ed Churchman discusses ways to get your private residence flowing in harmony with your own Dude Way.
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Section: No Frame of Reference | January 7th, 2010
It’s been a while since the Arch Dudeship Dwayne Eutsey treated us to a No Frame of Reference, but the good Reverend has a New Year’s present for the assembled Dudeocracy. This gem of a ramble discusses the nature of the Sabbath and his recent appearance on a radio show. Auld Lang Shit yeah!
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Section: Dudeman Nature | December 28th, 2009
After a long sabbatical face forward through the glorious muck, Rev. Art Schaub (aka Dudeman Nature) returns with a brilliant essay on the ecology of The Big Lebowski. Turns out that the behavior of the main characters mirror different survival strategies of wild animals! It’s Dudecology 101, man.
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Section: Dude Simple | December 17th, 2009
Dreaming of a White (Russian) Christmas? Tis the season to be Dudely, and Rev. Ed Churchman gets into the spirit (and spirits) of things by showing how Christmas can be a very Dudeist holiday. Merry Dudemas, everyone!
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Section: Pin Dudeism | December 3rd, 2009
Once again the good Rev. Hieronymous Moondog brings the new shit to light. Or in this case, old shit — he pays respects to that most venerable Dudeist sage Chuang-Tzu, one of the Dudefathers of Taoism. And with Chuang Tzu in mind, he also suggests an interesting idea for a semi-sequel (distant prequel?) to The Big Lebowski.
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Section: Pin Dudeism | November 4th, 2009
Rev. Hieronymous Moondog stubs his big Tao against the space-time continuum in his latest Pin Dudeism piece, looking at the elastic, fantastic and entirely relativistic nature of what we call time. Something that we relaxionary Dudeists should always keep in mind.
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Section: Surprised at my Tears | November 3rd, 2009
Rev. Andrea Favro (The Dudeship of Italy) tackles Dudeist emotions once again. In this second part of his examination of that fucking bitch of an emotion, fear, he looks at the fear of death. Can’t be worried about that shit — life goes on, man — even when it doesn’t.
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Section: Pin Dudeism | October 15th, 2009
Who better to comment on the inscrutable Coen Koans than our very own Pin Dudeist master Hieronymous Moondog? The good Reverend takes his characteristically oblique look at this latest (and one of the greatest?) Coen Brothers films.
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Section: No Frame of Reference | October 12th, 2009
One of the things Dudeism teaches us is how to roll with the gut-punches. Well Arch Dudeship Dwayne Eutsey rolled out nauseous the other day when he tried to attend his first ever Lebowskifest and contracted food poisoning only minutes before making it to the finals. There’s an unspoken message here, and Rev. Eutsey is just the fellah to speak it. He’s feeling better now, so no need to send flowers (dead or otherwise).
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Section: Guest Columns | October 8th, 2009
We’ve discussed Great Dudes in History quite a bit, but what about Great Dudes of the Future? Rev. Richard Parsons identifies a future dude featured in Star Trek who suffered tribble tribulations but didn’t let it get him down.
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