Dudes Day

Interestingly, we are nearing the end of Lent and last night/today we celebrated the Dude's Day. Below are a few concepts of what it's all about from the Dudespaper:

This year on March 6th we’re going to get fired up about chilling and make it official: It’ll be the first annual sacred Dudeist high holy day, The Day of the Dude.

Every religion needs its high holidays, and no religion takes taking a break more seriously than Dudeism. Though we considered many days for the holy day, we settled on March 6th because it’s the day that The Big Lebowski was bequeathed unto the world way back in the year of our Dude, 1998.

At first we considered April 20, but that had already been taken by the Church of the Subgenius; then we though to have it on September 11th as that’s the day the Dude writes on his check for 69 cents at the beginning of the movie, but of course that would be offensive to many folks. So finally we settled on March 6th, the Day of the Dude. So that’s when and what you call it. Probably in the future we’ll have more high holidays strewn throughout the year but you’ve got to start somewhere.

We recommend celebrating The Day of the Dude by getting together with like-minded Dudeists, drinking white Russians, watching the sacred film, and going bowling.

However, anything that pays honor to the high principles of Dudeism is fine:

• Spend it alone in your private residence by taking a bath with candles and tapes of whale sounds.
• Go to the beach (or the river, or the lake, or the swimming pool) with some pals and symbolically scatter the ashes of the previous year (suggestion: the ash from some naturally-occuring herbal substance will do).
• Get dressed up in your robes, shorts, sunglasses and sandals and pass out the Take it Easy Manifesto at your local shopping mall.
• Organize a full-on Jackie-Treehorn style garden party.
• Set up a stand in a public area and ordain people into the Church of the Latter-Day Dude. Yes! If you’re ordained as a Dudeist Priest you have that power! You only have to get their name and their email address and email us the list. Or, even better - set up a laptop and a printer and do it for them right there on the website, then give them a free printout of the online certificate. People will definitely dig your style.
• Drive around while listening to Creedence, or the movie soundtrack and enjoy the occasional acid flashback.
• Make some strongly commendable Dudeist art and send scans of them to us for our online gallery.
• Go for a long walk and don’t answer your phone all day.
• Get a discussion group together to discuss The Big Lebowski, Great Dudes in History, Dudeist philosophy, etc.
• Write an article about how you spent the Day of the Dude and send it in to the Dudespaper via center@dudeism.com. The best one will receive a free copy of the Dude De Ching!
• Engage in a natural, zesty enterprise with a willing partner. Then tell each other about yourselves over cocktails and what-have-you.
• Go to In-N-Out Burger, or make your own.

So I posted this and got one little lady all riled up about until a group of Dudeists mellowed her out. Quality day.

Last night was pretty special, though. . .

I'm calling the night before Dudes Day something else--St. Dudesday Eve. Cathleen Falsani had a book party, served us all White Russians, aka "Caucasians," showed the film on the wall, read from her book and made us all show up in costume (see FaceBook). I was kind of swamped and didn't have much time to prep. Was considering going as The Dude, but then thought others would too. Then thought I'd sweep it by going as The Big Lebowski, but didn't have time to drive out to Costume Castle for a bald wig, at which point Nirvana poked me and I called my good friend, Glenn Rogers to be The Big, while I wheeled him around as Brandt. We won the Canadian-USA combined costume award, of course. I mean, does the Pope shit in the woods or what?















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