Honestly, I like The Big Lebowski as much as anyone-it's my favorite Coen Brothers movie, and that's saying something, because I even enjoyed that Billy Bob Thornton haircutting movie-but can we give it a rest with all the "Dude worship"? Some of you people are worse than Trekkies.
Tangentially related: Is Thomas Pynchon channeling Jeff Bridges here? I still can't nail down who the voice sounds like. I hear a little Dude, a little Tommy Chong, but it's not quite exact. The timbre reminds me of Townes Van Zandt toward the end, but that's not it either. Anyway. Enough with the "Dudeism." Thank you.
And here I dropped tall coin on that Community College course to learn the Tao of Steve.
Over the line, Balk.
Hey, Balk, I just noticed you guys don't roll on Shabbos.
re: Pynchon - a stoned Kevin Costner?
There's more of an old man thing going on. Very flinty.
Kevin's no spring chicken.
It sucks that the entire psuedophilosophy of "Dudeism" is being co-opted by "The Man". Still, it seems a lot more innocuous than the government acting like Walter Sobchak over the last ten years and beyond. No wonder they didn't want soldiers' funerals photographed by the media, if the spreading of Donny's ashes is any example.
I had plastic sandals like that when I was 18.
But I'm a girl.
Hey VW, What the Fuck? I thought you guys were nihilists, representing Deutchland, unpimping rides. Karl Hungus will not fix your cobble but he will light your car on fire. But this "Dudeism"? That's fuckin' ingenious, if I understand it correctly. It's a Swiss fuckin' watch.
WAIT people didn't like the Billy Bob Thornton hair cutting movie??!?
apparently Dudes are far too slack to even login and comment on the guardian's web site...one comment there, and it simply re-iterates, "The Dude abides..."
The Big Lebowski's funny enough, the character's interesting enough, sure, but people really need to get over it. Quoting the Dude is only slightly less egregious that telling someone they're "money."
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
Better than Raising Arizona? What the hell is wrong with you?