![]() ![]() But sometimes there's a man, sometimes, there's a man. Named after the 1998 film The Big Lebowski, Lebowski bar in Reykjavik is a popular bar for great burgers, beer selection & to watch a game in good company. Quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide. And even if he's a lazy man - and the Dude was most certainly that. Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. I won't say a hero, 'cause, what's a hero? But sometimes, there's a man. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. I only mention it because sometimes there's a man. first lines The Stranger : voiceover Way out west there was this fella. Now this here story I'm about to unfold took place back in the early '90s - just about the time of our conflict with Sad'm and the I-raqis. So I can die with a smile on my face, without feelin' like the good Lord gypped me. But I'll tell you what - after seeing Los Angeles, and this here story I'm about to unfold, well, I guess I seen somethin' every bit as stupefyin' as you'd see in any of them other places. And I ain't never seen no queen in her damned undies, so the feller says. Ranging from iconoclastic comedies such as Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski to an unblinking treatise on the nature of evil in No Country for Old Men. 'Course I can't say I've seen London, and I ain't never been to France. But I'll allow there are some nice folks there. They call Los Angeles the "City Of Angels." I didn't find it to be that, exactly. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place so darned interestin'. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense. Now, "Dude" - that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. ![]()
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