Helloooooooooooooooo! And welcome to the 109th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

We have an amazing treat for you today! Look! Look at my potato!

http://www.rathergood.com/potato

Would you like to look at my potato? YES YOU WOULD YOU LUCKY PERSON YOU! Hoorays!

Also, we joined Zak "Big Zed" Veitch in Hackney, East London, to see some of his extreme urban motocross skills. We caught a major wipeout on film when he tried to do an amazing stunt involving ramming a can, but Big Zed was unhurt and the extreme mayhem continued!

http://www.rathergood.com/motocross

We've got an extended Spudstep mix of the Potato song for you! You can grab it for free here:

http://bit.ly/aqGHkr

In other news I noticed this wonderful game mod based around our rock classic “Van Full Of Anvils”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ZvR7W-VQE

If you've done anything interesting with any of our songs or anything do email me to let me know, I love seeing this stuff.

I did a song at the Sickipedia night on Wednesday, but I haven't seen the video of it yet so unfortunately I haven't got anything to show you from that – I guess I may have next week maybe? We'll see.

Also I should take this opportunity to congratulate Andreas “Wanki” Wank on his second place in the ski jumping I was watching on telly the other day. Hooray for Wanki! He is my favourite of all the ski jumpers.

Anyway, I guess that's about it except to tell you that I love you! I love you so hard! I'd do anything for you! I'd take you to the dark side of Jupiter's moons! We'll get there by ULTRA SALAMI! It's just like normal salami but it travels through space! Normal salami is no fun to travel through space in. When we get there we can do covers of Will Smith's classic Fresh Prince pop tunes, but with more ham! We can perform BAM! Shake the Ham! Also we can do the Fresh Prince of Ham Air theme tune:

In West Philadelphia born and raised
In the larder is where i spent most of my days
Till i got sliced in to slices and eaten for tea
Ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham

I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said "Fresh" and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab wahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

Helloooooo! And welcome to the 108^th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

This week we've made a song with bunnies in for USBCell. It's got a manatee too, and it's very very lovely indeed! Have a look:

http://www.rathergood.com/usbcell

The other main thing to tell you about this week is that I'm going to be speaking at ROFLCon, which is going to be totally the most fun thing ever in the history of everything! Have a look at the list of guests! I am SO looking forward to meeting all these guys:

http://roflcon.org/roflcon-ii-confirmed-guests/

Also, look! Christmas Bliss!

http://bit.ly/9T5BUf

In other news I was really chuffed to see boingboing being nice about our internet cats:

http://bit.ly/9qEXYM

I guess that's about it for today, except to tell you that I love you! I love you so HARD! I'd do anything for you! I'd pull all of my body hair out by the roots! All the body hair, from all the bits of my body! I'd use that hair to stuff a little doll of myself for you! And you can sleep with the doll pressed up to your face, knowing that it is full of the hair from my most intimate places! LUCKY YOU! I'd totally do that for you! I'm out of unstuffed fabric Joel dolls at the moment I'm afraid so it might have to wait until I have some more in, but if I did have the doll I'd be stuffing it with bumhair for you RIGHT NOW!

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, 19^th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3^rd 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

Helloooooooooooooooo! And welcome to the 107th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

Well, the big news today is that we've got a new album out! YEAH! It's called Spongs In The Key Of Life, and it is the absolute pinnacle of human achievement! We've taken 34 delicious songs and put them together in an album and you can get it from Amazon or iTunes or whatever and it's BRILLIANT!

Here's a link to it on Amazon UK

http://bit.ly/5q3pvz

Here's a link to it on Amazon in the United States of America!

http://bit.ly/90qWV2

It will be on your friendly local Amazon if you're elsewhere. Or iTunes, or whatever. This album is download only – I'm not planning on doing physical CDs as it was a major pain in the neck doing CDs for Danger Is Dangerous. So there.

In other news I did a spot on Sky News last Friday, then stayed around to be on the panel for Technology Unplugged. I've whacked it up on youtube if you're interested- look!

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZx-0m98Mo

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDaJ_wUBkrY

The Ridiculant was absolutely LOVELY about me in The Metro this week! Have a look!

http://bit.ly/7uH38F

Hooray for The Ridiculant!

I think that's about it for this week, except to tell you that I love you. I really do! I'd do anything for you! I'd make you my special custard as a treat! My special “custard” made from blood and tears and the stuff from inside my eyeballs which I have to suck out with a syringe! It really is horrible putting the needle into my eye because I can see it and stuff and then it really hurts sucking out the juice but the “custard” is SO GOOD YOU'LL LOVE IT!

I'D TOTALLY DO THAT FOR YOU!

I've run out of needles though so I can;t make it right now. But if I had the needles I would TOTALLY make it for you RIGHT NOW!

Mwah mwah extrasuperduperhugs I LOVE YOU OH GOD YOU SMELL LOVELY

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

Hellooooooooo! And welcome to the 106th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

We have a massive treat for you today! The Internet Is Made Of Cats! FACT! Look!

http://www.rathergood.com/cats

You see? DO YOU? NOW YOU KNOW! YES!

And look! There's even more! HAM! LOOK! HAM!

http://www.rathergood.com/country_ham

In other news, it was No Pants On The Subway Day the other day, and our mate Rammi ended up being the poster girl for the event, wearing a wonderful We Like The Moon tshirt. Look!

http://bit.ly/4vIhTi

The Guardian has video here

http://bit.ly/4Fo7tN

As Rammi herself says, it would probably have been more appropriate in an I Like Your Pants tshirt. Next year I expect that will be the uniform of choice.

I'll be on Sky News tonight doing a double spot – I'll be on a bit after 7 talking about the day's stories on the internet, and then staying on to be on the technology panel at 7.30. We'll be talking about internets and computers and that sort of thing. You can watch it if you fancy.

I think that about covers it for this week, except to tell you that I love you. I love you so hard I'd give you my organs! I'd slice up my abdomen and tie a rope to each of my organs, and I'd tie each rope to a rocket, and I'd aim the rockets at your house, and I'd fire them off! They'd land at your front door! Rockets raining down on your house trailing all my organs! Just for you! I'd do that for you to make you love me back! I'd TOTALLY DO IT FOR YOU!

I'm not sure where I'd get the rockets though so it might have to wait. I'm out of rope as well. So maybe not today. But I totally would if I had rockets and ropes! Because I love you SO HARD!

Mwah Mwah extrasuperduperhugs and big sloppy kisses!

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

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