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...Squirrel Nut Zippers is a band we've played with some and liked a lot. Meeting Morphine was cool, they're from around here. There are tons, all of us would love to open for Radiohead, but we're not sure...
...which has moved roughly 60 million copies. But Joy earned pride of place as the one indispensable kitchen reference source, and a fail-safe graduation or wedding present besides. It told beginning or uncertain cooks how to, among everything else, set a table, fillet a fish and turn a squirrel carcass into something edible. The 1975 Joy, the edition that the new book will supplant, has still been selling about 100,00 copies a year...
...reborn again and again, in an endless and wearying cycle called samsara, each life affected by the good and bad deeds performed in previous existences, according to a system called karma. The attainment of Nirvana allows us finally to step away from what one writer called "the squirrel cage of birth and rebirth" and enter into oneness with the cosmos. From the beginning, a practice of meditation was the chief mechanism to gain the awareness necessary for enlightenment...
After all the band members had sampled-and loved-the Nut Zipper candy bar, they asked the Squirrel Brand for permission to use its copyright as their band's title. Assuming that the group wouldn't be around for long, the company granted permission for the band to be named after the candy. However, the Squirrel Nut Zippers have definitely not faded away. They have since cut two records and toured extensively, playing for thousands of fans across the nation...
...trip; it's a rally," Cole said of the band's success. And the group's fruition has been more than helpful to the Squirrel Brand candy company as well: sales of the Nut Zipper bar have risen dramatically and continue to rise as the band gains fame. Speaking of the interaction between the band and the company, Cole said, "We have a really good, organic relationship. They load us up with mammoth amounts [of the candy], and we come back to visit the store whenever we have time...