Things Have Changed

  I missed it when Smokey turned 80 on May 6 (hat tip to Traces of Texas ).  Smokey is Jimmie Dale Gilmore, a singer-songwriter from Texas w...

Sometimes you just gotta make a stand, because sometimes there's a man . . . I won't say a hero, 'cause, what's a hero?  But...

  Yeah, that's me.

Over the past year, I've watched perhaps 15 episodes of Gunsmoke , the classic CBS Western series that ran for 635 episodes from 1955 t...

I think this is 2020.  From The Big Lebowski, of course.

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this version of Dead Flowers by Townes Van Zandt appears in The Big Lebowski (a THC #10 all-tim...

Sometimes a joke is just a joke, sometimes with the Coen Brothers it's also a joke but also something else, and sometimes there's a ...

Useful advice for those sensitive to today's battles over appropriate language.

A disquisition by Walter Sobchak regarding the importance of establishing well-defined boundaries for behavior in complex societies with ref...

" Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature, Asian-American, please. " The key scene from The Big Lebowski , whic...

( photos from Lebowski Fest ) And look who's at the lanes!  It's Saddam, the Big Lebowski and Liam.

. . . in which, along with Mr Cobb, appearances are made by Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Willie Mays and Michael Jordan, along with a ...

Verrily, it tied the room together . . . If William Shakespeare had written The Big Lebowski .  Written by Adam Bertocci and performed by...

From Elvis Costello and only available on The Big Lebowski soundtrack. She was smitten from the first By a curious fellow She said I lov...

( from Tech Noir )

Inspired by Joe Posnanski's recent post on Sandy Koufax and an observation by Bill James a few days ago about Sandy and Dazzy ...

. . . and sometimes the bar eats you. A case in point: On this day in 138AD the Roman Emperor Hadrian named Antoninus Pius as his s...

  "The Dude abides.  I don't know about you but I take comfort in that.  It's good knowin' he's out there.  The Dude...