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What Can't We Stop Listening To?

Les Claypool is a freak of the highest order, and that's one of the reasons why we love him so much. In the Live from Bonnaroo DVD from 2002 he is called 'the creepy uncle of the jamband scene,' and we have to agree with that title. Check out this great video of Claypool sitting in with Gov't Mule. Our favorite part of this clip is catching Warren shaking his head and smirking at the things coming out of Claypool's mouth. These two play so well together, and we would not have guessed that!

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Recycled Toilet Paper Art

Here's a fun DIY art project made from recycling toilet paper and paper towel rolls. We don't like being wasteful, and this fun project helps up to make something beautiful out of items we would normally just toss. Start by simply putting a box with a note asking bathroom users to please place their toilet paper rolls in the box for a recycled art project. We collected rolls for 4 months for our sculpture, so our finished project is pretty big, but there is no requirement for how many you need to start. If you're not pleased with the amount you collected initially, you can always add on more as more rolls are collected. 

What You'll Need:

Toilet paper rolls

Hot glue gun

Hot glue sticks

Scissors 

Spray paint in a color of your choice, we used metallic silver

First thing to do is take your collected rolls and cut them into about 1" strips.

 While you're cutting is a great time to remove any excess toilet paper that is stuck on the rolls.

 Next, you will put a line of hot glue along the folded edge of the toilet paper roll.

Quickly while the glue is still hot, you will attach another piece of roll.

 Continue gluing and adding rolls until you have 6 rolls together that make a star shape, which is your first row to build upon.

Continue the same process, building off the first row. Be careful not to squish any pieces in there too hard, you want each roll to sit gently between rolls, not shoved in forcefully.

Keep building until it gets bigger and bigger.

Once it gets to a size you are pleased with, you can begin to spray paint it. Getting inside the rolls can be difficult, but we think that  a little brown showing through looks just fine.

After your piece drys, hang on a wall and enjoy your recycled toilet paper wall art. :)

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Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream

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We love when successful businesses use their power to help make a difference in the world. Ben and Jerry's ice cream has always been one of our favorite tasty treats, but our love for them goes beyond the ice cream. Ben and Jerry moved to Burlington, VT in 1978 because it was a college town with no ice cream parlor, they figured no competition would help their business blossom. The pair held social and political events at their store aimed at the college crowd, and business began to boom. In 1980, they began packaging their ice cream for sale in a stores. Once Ben and Jerry began to taste success, they did the unthinkable for young businessmen...they held a public auction of the company's stocks in Vermont. Their idea was for their community to 'get a taste of the action,' as their business was beginning to succeed as well as gaining capital to invest in more equipment for producing ice cream. In 1984, Häagen-Dazs tried to limit Ben and Jerry's distribution by threatening to pull their product out of any store that would carry Ben and Jerry's. As you can imagine, this did not settle with the pair. They immediately launched the "What's the Doughboy Afraid of Campaign?" and became the faces of the little guys getting squashed by big business. The media storm that followed helped the pair gain recognition not only because of the Häagen-Dazs ordeal, but also allowed them to share their important philosophies and ideologies of how a business should be run.  In 1985 the Ben and Jerry Foundation was created and received 7.5% of their annual pre-tax profits to go towards community oriented projects. In 2000 the pair sold the company to food giant Unilever under one condition, to keep going with their mission to give back to the community through the Ben and Jerry's Foundation, as well as sourcing all milk from Vermont cows. Though they don't oversee the company anymore, Ben and Jerry are both active in the Ben and Jerry Foundation. Ben lobbies in Washington to increase funds for education by taking a minuscule amount of funding from the military. He uses cookies to demonstrate how much funding the military is getting vs. how much funding education is getting.

Click here to see what Ben and Jerry are fighting for these days and what you can do to help. What's your favorite flavor of Ben and Jerry's? We like Phish Food, but you probably already knew that! :)

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Got Jokes?

Why couldn't the coast guard save the hippie?

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 He was way too far out, man!

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