When I was at the Lebowski Fest: Speed Of Sound Tour a young blond college student doing research for a paper approached me and my wife and asked us why we were there.  I replied, “All the Dude wanted was his rug back.”  She blankly stared at me.  I realize this is the usual response when I say anything to women, but she obviously hadn’t seen the movie.  Despite not being the Coen brothers favorite, “The Big Lebowski” has reached “Rocky Horror picture Show” proportions.  What started as a small gathering of freaks has turned into a national tour of…freaks.  I think it strikes a chord with some because the we all have a “Dude” inside of us that just wants to flow along with life like a leaf in a stream…wow, that was fuckin’ Zen.  We all “just want our rug back”.  The daily grind, commute, bills, news gets to us and sometimes we just want to hit the eject button and be free of societal pressures to “Achieve”.  Am I making sense?  Is this a weekday…?  Here’s some of what I captured at Lebowski Fest with the Hsu Cam before the caucasians got the best of me.