Helloooooooooo! And MERRY SQUIDMAS! Look! Here's a wonderful festive song for you!

http://rathergood.com/squidmas

Isn't it wonderful, this glorious festive time of year! We're not ones to mutter “Bah Humboldt” - we LOVE Squidmas!

The big news here in the UK has of course been the fantastic campaign to get Rage Against The Machine to Christmas number 1, which was completely and wonderfully successful. In case you were having trouble choosing between Rage and its foe, The Climb, we've mashed the two of them together into one resplendent creation:

http://www.rathergood.com/climb

I'm doing my spot on Sky News this evening, if you're interested, I'll be on a bit after 7, talking about some internets and stuff.

The Metro gave us a couple of nice mentions this week. They gave Killing In The Climb a lovely write-up here:

http://bit.ly/6CjrTX

And they gave us a mention in their noughties retrospective here:

http://bit.ly/7Ewube

Hooray for them!

I think that's about it for this week, except once again to wish you a wonderful Squidmas! And to tell you that I love you of course! I love you so hard! I'd do anything for you! I'd submit myself to the terrible ministrations of Father Squidmas for you! I'd let him collect me from the Squid God skinned, dismembered and screaming and fly around the word in his rotting whale carcass sleigh, dropping bits of my skin down people's chimneys along with hunks of rotting whale flesh. I'd do that for you! Because I love you that hard!

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

Helloooooooooooooo! And welcome to the103rd EVER newsletter from rathergood!

We have made this lovely mashup song thingy with Stephen Fry! I love the smell of LOL!

http://www.rathergood.com/stephen_fry

Yays! Footage is from the BBC Digital Revolution whatsit.

Also, I've got this terrifying footage of a Great White Shark attack for you

http://www.rathergood.com/shark

Horrifying isn't it!

In other news, you should totally buy rathergood toys and tshirts as christmas presents for everyone you know, and lots of people you don't as well! They are totally the best thing anyone could ever hope to have!

http://www.printshop.co.uk/rathergood/

Oh wow everyone is going to love you SO MUCH when they open their present and find a rathergood toy or tshirt in there! WOW! You are going to be SO POPULAR!

Anyway, I think that about wraps it up for today, except to tell you how much I love you. I love you SO HARD! I'd bleed myself a bit every day, and cut out bits of fat from around my stomach, and mix it all up with herbs and pearl barley to make a delicious Black Pudding for you! I'd put it in a sausage skin and steam it, and then you could slice it up and fry it and have it with your breakfast! It will be delicious!

I can't lay eggs for you I'm afraid, so those will have to come from one of the usual egg sources, such as a toad.

You smell really great today! Have you had your hair done? Because it looks STUNNING!

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

Hellooooo! And welcome to the 102nd EVER newsletter from rathergood!

We've got a little song about how I wish I had a pet pig for you today. I would call him Mr Oinks:

http://www.rathergood.com/oinks

Also, here are some very hostile otters performing a Pantera song. They do have swearing going on, because they are so hostile and everything:

http://www.rathergood.com/hostile

I whacked up some more personal photos on flickr if you're interested in that sort of thing:

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

We did a little spot at the Webbys bash last night in Shoreditch. We made up a song specially! A bespoke song! About the internet! It was great! But I don't have any video of it! So I can't show you! OH NOES! We'll record it though and hopefully I'll be able to show you the song soon. It really was very good, though you'll just have to take my word for it for now.

That's about it I think, except to tell you that I love you. I love you so hard I'd let you have my precious blubber to keep you warm, now the weather has turned cold. I'd get a biro, and I'd sharpen it up into a point, and I'd open up my belly and cut out all my blubber with that biro, and I'd give it all to you! If you want, I'll get some of my liver out as well! We can mix up my blubber and liver into a delicious meal that I like to call “Blibber” - you will really enjoy it! Hopefully I'll stay conscious long enough to see you smile!

You look so HOT today! Oh God and you smell SO GOOD!

Mwah 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

Hellooooooooo! And welcome to the 101^st EVER update from rathergood!

We've got a lovely, uplifting treat for you today! Look, we set the kids loose to make a song of their own! Here it is:

http://www.rathergood.com/kids

Sticking with the family theme, I've also whacked up my wonderful video to the amazing song Eggs by the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players:

http://www.rathergood.com/eggs

We're being ever so wholesome today aren't we! Hooray! It is a wholesome day!

In other news, I did this interview with My Videostar in Germany

http://bit.ly/5skAz1

Finally, I whacked up some more personal photos - you can have a butcher's here if you like:

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

I guess that's about it, except to tell you that I LOVE YOU! I was going to put a thing in here about how I love you so much I'd do anything for you! That I'd get a circular pastry cutter and use it to strip out my spine just for you! And then I'd get a helper to put spangly tassles on the spine and send it to you in the post so you can use it as a trendy scarf to keep you warm through the cold winter months, and every time you wear it you'll think of me! But seeing as this is a wholesome family newsletter this week I won't say anything about that, even though it is completely true, and I'll just let you know that I love you very very very very very very much!

Mwah mwah big sloppy kisses and 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, 19^th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge