If you weren't there at the Tower tonight to watch The Big Lebowski with 400-something other people who may have become your new best friends, you also missed an incredible costume contest, which kicked off the weirdly, awesomely, justifiably well-attended (and sold-out) event.
Here are a couple videos from the Walter and Dude categories of the contest. Sadly, I didn't capture any images of the "freestyle" competition, which included a Big Lebowski, complete with wheel chair and Phillip-Seymour-Hoffman lookalike assistant. Seriously.