...or El Duderino if You're Not Into the Whole Brevity Thing.

My homage to The Big Lebowski has been posted, framed and unframed. Put it on your Christmas list, or pick one up for the bowling enthusiast, slacker, philanthropist, or Nihilist in your life.

1998's incomparable The Big Lebowski is written and directed by the Cohen brothers and stars Jeff Bridges as "the Dude, "a role that seems to define what Bridges himself would be up to if he hadn't been born into a Hollywood family.

The Cohen brothers manage to take what should by all means be a contrived and ridiculous story about incomprehensible and largely unlikable people and craft it into a modern-day classic. There isn't a hipster alive who doesn't wish he could be friends with the Dude, nor who doesn't know a blow-hard with a heart of gold like Walter.

Here are some fun facts about The Big Lebowski:

• Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, and Sam Elliott were all the actors that the Cohens had in mind when they wrote the screenplay.
• In the movie, the Dude never actually bowls.
• The nine-toed girl (who gives her toe to the nihilists) is played by musician Aimee Mann
• The plot starts when Jackie Treehorn's thugs bust into the Dude's apartment. One of them pees on his rug. the other is played by Mark Pellegrino, aka Jacob from Lost.
• The second time we see the thugs, each is wearing the clothing that the other was wearing in their first appearance.
• A White Russian (or, a "Caucasian") is 2 parts vodka, one part coffee liqueur, one part cream.
• Jeff Bridges had one question for the Cohens before every scene: "Did the Dude burn one on the way over?" If the answer was yes, he would rub his eyes to make them bloodshot before the take.
• Every bowling shirt Donny wears has someone else's name on it.
• As ridiculous as he sounds when he is saying it, everything Walter says about the kidnapping is dead-on. Bunny was not really kidnapped, it was not her toe, and there never was any ransom money.

Stay tuned, there are more films to come!