Word: dudeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...third of the space is occupied by the bar—with fairly decent beers on tap, though nothing spectacular—while a teeny stage sits at the far end of the room. A few stone toad idols sit above the bartender’s head, prompting a dude sitting near me to tell me about this time in college when he caught and domesticated a toad. If you put a piece of rice paper on a toad and poke it, it will secrete a milky substance. Then you eat it off the paper—which...
...October submarine-launched missile because the director who was turning one of Clancy's novels into a movie placed a reef in the middle of the (reefless) Chesapeake Bay for plot reasons. Thinking back on the account of this Sturm und Drang in a teacup, I thought, Dude, count your blessings. The movie version of one of my novels had just run aground again, not in the Chesapeake but somewhere in the middle of that reef and wreck-strewn seascape known as Hollywood...
Piers: wat up dude...
...from the bottom of the Dolly Parton song trunk. And the winners, three exponents of Memphis hiphop, expressed more astonished delight than anyone except the Crash crowd. One of them even thanked the Oscar show?s executive producer, Gil Cates. That guy?ll be invited back, even if his dude duds obliterated the dress code...
Also, the song is terrific. The rhymes edge from laid back into boring at times, but his condescending tone turns “But you’s a scary dude / Believed by very few” from good to “Oh, shit!” And the beat is downright epic. DJ Toomp delivers the marching strings and gut-rumbling bass synth to produce the kind of track you’ve always wanted to hear play when you walk into rooms. Fitting that such a brazenly cinematic song should be used to sell a movie...