Hellooooooooo! And welcome to the first EVER newsletter of 2010 from rathergood! It's the 105th EVER newsletter OF ALL TIME from rathergood too! How about that? WOW!

First of all I want to share our new song with you. It is Eric The Squid Spinner, and it is a heart-warming, touching story. Eric was a man who had one wonderful, shining talent, and used it to overcome adversity! Hooray for Eric!

http://www.rathergood.com/eric

Hoorays!

Also, I am privileged to be able to share this incredible footage of a Colossal Arctic Blessed, sighted near Thule, Greenland, on 5th January 2010:

http://www.rathergood.com/blessed

What a glorious, mighty, resplendent creature it is! Maybe one day we can learn from them.

You can get an Eric The Squid Spinner tshirt from our lovely store here if you like!

http://bit.ly/8X2e9P

Just before Christmas I did my spot on Sky News again- you can see me here, talking about internets and things:

http://bit.ly/6uci3d

James William Roy has re-imagined Hover Bacon in the style of The Jesus & Mary Chain. It is a thing of utter glory. Brilliant and wonderful (audio link):

http://bit.ly/4Zvwre

I noticed these wonderful Spongmonkey Christmas decorations! Aren't they fantastic!

http://bit.ly/5XT3Pc

In other news I've whacked up a couple of personal photos on my flickr account if you're interested in that kind of thing:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelveitch/

I also noticed that the News Of The World gave our Killing In The Climb thing a mention. Nice. We are “cheeky internet whizzes” apparently

http://bit.ly/8KiPZI

I think that's about it for today, except to tell you that 2010 is going to be a wonderful year for you, and this new decade full of hope and promise is going to be a wonderful decade for you! You are going to achieve so much! You are going to bring joy into the lives of others, and others will bring joy to you! Your dreams and goals will get closer to fruition with every passing day, and every passing hour.

Seriously, this is going to be a brilliant year for you. Guaranteed!

I love you! I love you so hard I'd strip off my clothes and nail Christmas decorations into my arms,  legs and abdomen, and even my intimate bits, and tie tinsel tightly around myself, and stand on your doorstep, decorated and sparkling and bleeding and sing Christmas carols to you to cheer you up! I'd do that for you because I LOVE YOU THAT HARD! Except it would be unlucky now because it's gone past 12th night and the decorations have had to come down so I won't but I totally would have done if you'd asked me before 12th night but you didn't and it's not my fault you didn't ok?

MWAH MWAH extrasuperduperhugs!

Yours sincerely

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge