Let’s face it, mang, holidays are stressful. You have to organize friends, buy food and beverages, cook and mix, deal with family and strangers and then deal with the cops because of noise complaints and drunks passed out on the lawn or the fire escape. Then you have to clean up afterwards. Oh, and you have to give thanks for stuff and buy presents for people even if you don’t want to.
That sounds exhausting.
Luckily at the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, we look at the holidays in a totally different way. We take the holidays literally–HOLEY DAYS. They are days with holes in them. Total emptiness. The best way to celebrate them is to do nothing. And that’s followed by the equally-good second best way, which is to do whatever you want to with whomever you want to. Our basic freedoms, dude! Fuckin’ Day, man!
Unfortunately not everyone could take er easy as they’d like to. The Dudely Lama for instance was obliged to finish a part of the upcoming The Abide Guide by Monday. Still, he managed to get in some serious hammock-time in between revisions:
Thankfully, lots of other laxadaisical Dudeist Priests managed to have a perfectly stress-free day. They achieved the modest slack which was their charge. Here are a few:
Rev. Ryan Tobin (New Hampshire, USA):
Rev. Dave Duff (Hoffman Estates, IL)
Rev. Roberto Rancid (Pomona, CA):
Christopher Ross (Niddatal, Germany)
Rev. Rob Press (Leeds, UK)
Rev. Cynthia Leigh McLendon
Faical (Czech Republic)
Scott C. Baldwin’s Dude in Training, Robert (Brownstown, Michigan)
Arch Dude of York, Kristian Lewin (York, UK)
Ted Shelton (Knoxville, TN)
Makes us feel all warm inside to see all this dedicated Dudeness all over the world.
If you’ve got any pics, videos or stories, please send them here: www.dudeism.com/contact and we’ll add them to this page. Thankee!
By the way, our Two Gentlemen of Lebowski Giveaway went far-outly, with lots of great answers to the question "In your opinion, why is The Big Lebowski such a great film?" We’ll alert the winners shortly.
Next big holidays coming up: The Summer Slowstice and Indudependence Day! Stay tuned for more info to become privy to. Thankee.
Makes me want to chill out just reading through this story!
My day was fantastic. I slept most of the morning. I woke up to a nice big english breakfast. We followed that with a visit to the Pub, embibed of 4 beers and went home to sleep.
Oh what perfect day….dum diddy doo diddy daaaa
Hmm, I have become two-Dudes – is this a DOTD genuine miracle? Could come in quite useful when dealing with fascists. As for my DOTD observance I just took DL’s advice and blew everything off.
Keep those pics coming in – you know I’m gonna fuck with them :)
The Arch Dude of York’s homage to our great Sacramental Beverage with the Dude’s Prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Nbk7X9VIs
My Day of the Dude was consumed by actually brewing two batches of Oat Sodas (a pilsner & a lager), racking two more and bottling a Toasted Coconut Mead. Relaxing work requiring many brews for the slaking of the thirst.
We’re all, we’re all very fond of them…very free-spirited.
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god, I know I did something. . .
no, it’s gone
DOTD Aftermath video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDdNOSPNsI0&tracker=False
Well, now “Summer Slowstice” – personally I’d just call it the Solstice (slap the ‘Dude’ prefix on it, if you like). It is still a marginal celebration – yet folks from all faiths (and none) can feel the echo – down through the ages, across the . . y’know – of the oldest religious observances of the Mother Dude’s grand design. I’d pump up the Solstice itself – and see what Dudes come up with on the day.
“Indudependence Day”? [Chews imaginary gum in a derisive manner] That would be an American Dudes’ celebration, would it? [pops sarcastic gum bubble] Interesting – not sure I could get behind that unless you consider national holidays of other nations (Boxing Day would do well in the States). Every day a holiday: imagine that – blimey! – there just ain’t enough Kahlua in the world.
Can Dl recall the day that the Dudeism seed flowered in his venerable noggin? Or the day the first Dude got him/herself ordained online?
How about a national Dude sharing day? Y’know, papers, files, songs, stories, hopes, dreams – what-have-yous.
yeah good point, i was thinking of indudependence day as non nation-specific, but it does have strong yankee overtones. perhaps out with that. So Dude Slowstice? not sure people will get the pun that way. Hmmm.
I’m sure they’ll get the pun, well some of ’em anyway – Dudestice, anyone?
Hey, Cakey, if you’re into the whole Boxing Day thing, I did give it a Dudely mention way back when, you know, for Christmas:
http://dudespaper.com/christmas-the-season-of-the-dude.html/
But yeah, I’m not sure I’m personally down with something that’s a take on kicking the English in the balls. Indudependance Day feel like a limber finger at our Dudarchic state ;)
How about “UnLabour Day”, or UnLabor Day” in the parlence of our times? Do we hyphenate it or what? There we go again, thinking too much instead of going bowling.
@The Dudespaper – Oh sorry, man – I meant “Dude (Summer) Solstice”. However, I have no objection to “Slowstice”. That’s cool.