Hellooooooooooooo! And welcome to the 166th EVER newsletter from rathergood!
Look what I've got for you today! Bomb The Moon – in which we decide to destroy the moon:
http://rathergood.com/bomb_the_moonIsn't that awesomes! And look! In case that wasn't enough, there's more Stallion Explosion here, with Ed the cat trying to lay an egg:
http://rathergood.com/eggLook what @flamingatheist sent me! A picture of this glorious man in a We Like The Moon tshirt
http://upthear.se/1pzz I also just want to take a moment to say thankyou to everyone from around the world who came to Hackney for the Olympics. It's been a really awesome time here. It's all gone brilliantly, and there hasn't been any of the projected mayhem, and everyone has been awesome so HOORAYS!
Hoorays for Hackney, hoorays for London and hoorays for everyone around the world too! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Well done everyone who won things and for all of you who were watching around the world, I hope you enjoyed it too.
Wheeeeeeeee! I think that's about it for today, except to tell you I love you. OH GOD I LOVE YOU SO HARD!
I'll build a nest for you to live in and nurture you. You can spend all your time in the nest, and I'll feed you on regurgitated meals from my gullet.
I'll collect old fishing line and wire, discarded nappies and grotmags, and fashion them in to a beautiful nest. I'll hunt tirelessly for delicious carrion and gorge myself until I am nearly ruptured, then I'll waddle back to the nest where you will be adhered, naked and helpless, and I'll vomit the half-digested rats and badgers and old pigeons down your throat.
Think how lovely that will be! All your worries and insecurities at an end!
You lucky, lucky, lucky thing you!
I'll come for you soon! At night! It'll be a lovely surprise for you! Like Father Christmas I'll come for you while you sleep and whisk you away to a better life in my NEST MY NEST WHERE YOU WILL BE ADHERED WITH MY SPECIAL GLUE THAT I SECRETE FROM MY VENT MY PRECIOUS RANCID STINKING GLUE FROM MY BEAUTIFUL VENT.
Mwah mwah ultrahugs!
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
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling
Winner of the Head's Prize for Progress, first year, Aylesford School
50 meters swimming badge
Once did a wee in a loo containing Dannii Minogue's wee
25 meters swimming badge
Amateur experimental rocket / meat scientist
Has caught piranhas on a hand line
Willing to learn semaphore if required
Able to sing The Girl From Ipanema and Mas Que Nada in Portuguese
Survivor of Trans-Atlantic Airplane Fire Horror
Wielder Of The Power Of Science
Inventor of the Dictator Finger Thingdicator
Defeater of Transformers (regardless of voltage)
Founder member of the super-secret League Of Internet Justice
Has eaten chicken madras for breakfast
Commander In Chief of Pork Force
Saver Of Old Ladies In Distress
Owner of Monster Truck
Experienced lawn mower
Finder of camouflaged flip-flops
Amateur Marine Biologist
Vaguely knowledgeable about steam engines
Paper Plane Expert
The man behind many of the Internet’s biggest online successes (London Evening Standard 6 October 2010)
Pie Master
Some bloke who makes cat videos on the internet (copyright Aleks Krotoski)
Kitten Wrangler Extraordinaire
Inventor of Hairy Tongue
Christmas Tree Decorator of some renown
Able to slow kittens to 1/40th the speed of a normal kitten
Fan of all ungulates
Moon Baron
Able to do a passable impersonation of a trumpeting elephant
Fixer of aircraft using glue, tape and bog roll
Cyborg Warrior
Repairer of small shock absorbers
Owner of a skin-tight lycra suit
Knower of some stuff about pulse jets
Able to identify many cartilaginous fish
Painter of RC cars
Able to fly a radio control plane briefly before crashing and destroying it
Knows what a lift pump is in a diesel engine
Understands clutch shoes
Loop-the-looper extraordinaire!
Getting less bad at soldering
Has a vague understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of a small propeller spinning quickly vs a big propeller spinning slowly
Knows that volts times amps equals watts
Father of Ultimate Nail Baby
Hasn't even mentioned that he cut the tip of his finger off because he's so brave
Builder of Sausage Drone
Not responsible for anyone injuring themselves while attempting dangerous erotic freefall
Popular amongst Dominicans with sexually confusing genetic disorders
HABATAAAAAAG enthusiast
Milkman impersonator
Stallion Explosion
Drummer on stranded buoys