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Terrence Howard praises Oprah’s ‘Tig Ol’ Bitties’ |Film Drunk|

Mr. Legel Goes to Washington |Frotcast|

How Bill Murray Should Appear In Your Favorite (And Least Favorite) TV Shows |Warming Glow|

Lil’ Lebowski [via Tastefully Offensive]

Howard Stern’s Interview With Alex Jones Was A Rollicking Crazy Train Wreck |UPROXX|

Michelle Jenneke’s Busted Hamstring Is Doing Wonders For Her Instagram |With Leather|

Want To Watch Gary Busey Explaining (And Rapping) About Hobbits? Yes, Of Course You Do |Gamma Squad|

10 Instances Of Ludacris’ Girlfriend Eudoxie Looking Gloriously Thick |Smoking Section|

Gruden Talk: Jon and Herm Discuss the Sequester With Former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles |Kissing Suzy Kolber|

The 39 Hottest Eva Mendes Pictures of All Time |Ranker|

MS paint artist that will draw just about anything you ask for |theChive|

9 Historical Methods for Determining the Sex of an Unborn Baby |Mental Floss|

Body Slamming The Multiplex: The Future of WWE Films |Film.com|

Choking on the Splinters – Taking stock of Beck’s career 20 years after ”Loser” |Grantland|

Olivia Wilde Has Some Friendly Advice For Justin Bieber |IDLYITW|

Girl Wedgies Herself Climbing Fence At Blink 182 Show |HuffPost Comedy|

Reporter Spends Entire Interview Macking on Mila Kunis |NextMovie|

The 8 Hardest Unimportant Decisions You’ll Have to Make |College Humor|

Average Party |Holy Taco|

Jeffrey Tambor Shares Eight Behind-the-Scenes Stories From The Larry Sanders Show |Vulture|

Oh Shut Up, Taylor Swift |Videogum|

The Terrible Karate Supercut |Clip Nation|

Miss Teen Delaware Only Made $1,500 For The Porn That Everybody’s Seen At Least Once Now |The Superficial|

Celebs Caught Gawking At Girls |Giant Life|

Ron Swanson’s On the Cover of Paste |Pajiba|

World’s Strongest Man Competitor Cannot Complete the Atlas Stones Event, Boulder Crushes Him |Brobible|

Bad Lip Reading: Peter & Gwen |High Definite|

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This week on the Frotcast, we brought on Matt Ufford for a special, extended Thanksgiving drive-time episode. We actually hadn’t planned on it being extended when we started, but we were having such a good time keeping it rolling that we just kept on recording. Topics include:

• SB Nation’s Troll Tuesday, and the dangers of writing about the dangers of living ironically.

• The man who got arrested for pretending a taser was his penis.

• Steve-O’s karaoke show, and how it makes us think the world turning into Idiocracy might not be so bad after all

• Speaking of trolls, we have more clips of Bernie Goldberg’s epic trolling interview questions from HBO Real Sports

• The nature of book-to-movie adaptations, as it relates to World War Z, The Watchmen, Life of Pi

• The statutory Elmo drama

• Stories of the worst jobs we’ve ever had, and trying to decide whether to swallow all your dreams or live in poverty forever

• Our favorite Coen brothers movies and trying to explain the enduring popularity of The Big Lebowski

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PICTURE: Avengers in High School – Hawkeye had a bomb-ass flat top mullet |Film Drunk|

12 Steps to Making the Next Season of ‘The Office’ More Watchable |Warming Glow|

Listen to us pitch Wet Dream on Elm Street director Lee Roy Myers our porn parody ideas. |Frotcast|

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With Leather, With Love: The World’s Fattest Woman Is Getting Married! |With Leather|

Is This What The Coming Apple HDTV Will Look Like? |UPROXX|

Real Life “Pulp Fiction”: Memphis Robbers Macabre Torture Tactics |Smoking Section|

Who’s Gotten Around More: The Justice League Or The Avengers? |Gamma Squad|

John Travolta’s Accused of Molesting A Second Male Masseur Now |TheSuperficial|

How To Poop Like a Child |Videogum|

The 20 Greatest Maurice Sendak Quotes |Buzzfeed|

10 Creations Inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are” |College Humor|

The next Jim Abbott |TheDailyWhat|

Bandersnatch Cummerbund: Washington Post’s Amazing Benedict Cumberbatch Name Change |HuffPost Comedy|

‘Red Neck Island’ Is A New Reality Show, And Stone Cold Steve Austin’s The Host |ScreenJunkies|

Indians offended that The Avengers depicts their third world hellhole as a third world hellhole |Fark|

10 Things You Might Not Know About Maurice Sendak |Mentalfloss|

Alex Tanney, Trick Shot Quarterback, Gets NFL Tryout |Guy Speed|

This is What the NFL in Los Angeles Would Look Like |Brobible|

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"Zee cat, she believes in nuzzling."

Last October, I wrote about a store in New York called The Little Lebowski Shop, dedicated to all things Big Lebowski-related. That’s owner Roy Preston in the picture, in front of the store with his cat, Misha. On Friday, I received a cryptic comment on the post, from someone calling herself “bluehairedcatlady”, saying Misha had disappeared, alleging Roy “hated anyone who was nice to Misha” and that “he thinks he can do whatever he wants to her and no one will care.”

Serious allegations. And it seemed like there might be an interesting story there, so I asked Mr. Preston about it. Let’s just say I think I was right. This was his response:

Dear Vince,

I moved into an apartment that allows pets.  I took Misha home.  The day after I took her to her new pad, one of the women in Misha’s fan club flew into a panic of epic proportions.  This woman liked to bang on the front window of my store at 8:30 AM sharp every morning and then scream at the top of her lungs, “MEISH! COME TO THE WINDOW!”  This was usually followed by five minutes of her telling Misha what an asshole I was for leaving her in the store by herself.  (This woman also famously once told me that she had a psychic connection with Misha.  Believe it or not, Misha told her that living with me made her miserable.)

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It was only a matter of time. We’ve seen Big Lebowski festivals and convenience stores, so someone basing a religion around it was clearly in the cards. What I did not see coming was the religion being centered in Thailand. Don’t be fatuous, CNN:

Dubbed “Church of the Latter-Day Dude,” the group also invites “mellow, unflashy chicks who hang around in their bathrobes and take baths with candles and whale sounds,” says the religion’s Dudely Lama, Oliver Benjamin.

“Everyone feels oppressed by society’s pressures,” he says.

“Everyone wishes they had more freedom. Everyone wishes they could be more carefree, to worry less about money and status.”

Well, there you go. At this point you’re probably thinking, “Hey, I bet the guy who created a religion based around The Big Lebowski and refers to himself as the ‘Dudely Llama’ definitely isn’t a crackpot.” NOT SO FAST, MY IMAGINARY DULLARD READER! The article is littered with wackadoo quotes by Mr. Benjamin. Meet me after the jump.

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