Joel Veitch

Catching up recent events... was out on Friday to see @rathergood.bsky.social and the 7 Seconds Of Love put on another cracking show inside the New Cross Inn blast furnace. Cosplay was requested. @taniapdx.bsky.social and I did some seminal Flash classics. Who wore it better?

We are playing live TONIGHT at the New Cross Inn! It's going to be FUN! Come and say hi! WHOOP WHOOOP!

We are PLAYING LIVE TOMORROW NIGHT! Come down to the New Cross Inn in London, see you there! Woohoo!

This is a lovely piece about our Bad Dinosaurs resurrection www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/bad-din...

Bad Dinosaurs is coming back! We are recommissioned for seasons 2 and 3 on Netflix. RAAAARGH!

I think we can all agree that the events in this newsletter all have equal cultural significance

went to an amazing gig last night, 6-hour DJ set covering 1988-2003 in dance music with full-on video backdrop. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen these somewhere before @rathergood.bsky.social

Only 3 weeks till we rock out at the New Cross Inn! Come and join us, Friday 9th October! Free toy for anyone dressed up in rathergood costume! Woohoo!

How 9/11 and Osama bin Laden kick started the UK's underground internet creative hotbed that shaped early 2000s web culture, in the words of its creator.

We are doing our only live gig of the year on Friday 9th October in London, at the New Cross Inn! Come on over it will be SUPERDUPERAWESOME!

Middle daughter: "I'm really struggling with the lighting in my room. I feel it should be warmer and more nurturing, and I really believe that if we work together using the power of family and love we can achieve that." She is now sending me links to lamps she wants me to buy for her.

When you let google perv on your online habits, it sometimes asks the questions you aren't expecting to be asked @rathergood.bsky.social

I stand to accept the applause of my fellow diners. Tonight they have voted for ME. I place the hose in my mouth and turn the tap. In seconds the high pressure savoury sauce has inflated me and I burst, splattering meat shrapnel around The Restaurant. The hotplates on every table sizzle. They feast.

Today marks 150 years since the Beefeeters at the Tower Of London abandoned their ancient uniform of shoes painstakingly stitched from the hides of thousands of bumble bees for leather boots. Bee cobbling is now a lost art and all the original bee feet have long decayed away.

The first thing I always think of with Bill Oddie is @b3ta.com and the @rathergood.bsky.social misheard song lyric for Madonna's 'Erotic': "Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, Put your hands all over my body". www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNvQ...

I haven't been following the WC but I hear England is playing right now so I'll be listening to @rathergood.bsky.social 's World Cup Winners on loop

Can't get over how tragic it is that King Henry VIII missed out on potatoes by just a few brief years. He would have bloody loved chips. 😞

This guy is hanging around in the garden . Taking a break from pecking wood to nibble on a fat ball. Can't say I blame him.

Parenting tip! Several times a day, reassure your kids that they are genuine human children constructed using exactly the same natural biological processes as all the other human children they encounter.

We're coming towards the end of daffodil season, but there are some really lovely ones out now

I explained what a national protest movement was, and she explained that she's in kindergarten, thus can't be at the forefront of something like that. She made a sign, though.

Netflix cancelled Bad Dinosaurs after a mere 8 episodes and somehow, according to my kid, it's my fault. She cheered up when I told her that the show was made by @rathergood.bsky.social, the guy who did the Viking Kittens video she loves, but then she demanded I tell him to make more episodes.

Absolutely ruined that song for me, much like @rathergood.bsky.social's Destiny's Child "Alf Garnett / I depend on meat" Flash video did in the pre-Twitter days youtu.be/txz83WACjxY?...

Pavlov's Dog - if you see a dog in act 1, it has to explode in act 3.

Found this lovely fluffy chonker snuffling about in one of my crocuses just now. Spring is here! Wheeeeee! There are buds starting to crack on my fruit trees, it's all coming back to life THANK GOD!

Ah yes, back when the Web was still new and strange but was just beginning to take off in the popular consciousness. The Crab of Ineffable Wisdom, and the Spongmonkeys liked the Moon, and then they were in a national ad campaign and it felt like you were In On Something for having Known Them When. 😁

STEPKID: *begins laughing in incredulous horror* ME: *wearily* They were incredibly popular. They did an ad for Quiznos. STEPKID: If I saw that as a child I would be scarred for life. ME: I’m just saying that it doesn’t have to be good to be amazing.

Attempted to explain the Spongmonkeys to Stepkid today. I had emphasized that they were crudely animated. I do not think I emphasized it enough.

I know you think the world has problems but I just put milk in my lemsip. Drank it anyway.

The missus has just used the word “seepage” in conversation and now I must post this Veitch masterpiece. It’s the law

Buy my new self-care product CALaMari - the big squid you wrap snuggly around your shoulders. Nothing takes your mind off the struggle to pay the bills like the soft embrace of powerful tentacles while a cruel beak gnaws pitilessly through your skull.

When we started putting hundreds of enraged squids in the cockpits of our airliners, people asked if it was really a good idea. However, there really is no other way. They are angry at the best of times and airliner cockpits always enrage them.

The first time I encountered the phrase "pre-loved" was in 1999 in Melbourne where the sex shop round the corner had a nauseating sign for "pre-loved magazines" - so your listing for a pre-loved luxury gucci handbag gives me a vision of you doing unspeakabke things to it, you perv.

Barney is having a very relaxing post-Christmas Sunday morning

Wife: why do you have 8 cubes filled with ink? Me: for eggs Wife: why are you only putting eggs in the eighth cube? Me: I am ink cube eighting them Wife: ok, I need to explain something to you...

I need a new series to start watching with my lovely wife. Any suggestions?

We sang We Like The Moon at the gig last night - the first time we have ever done this song live. So much fun, we'll do this (and a couple of other classic Rathergood songs) in the middle of the ska set next time we do one of these.

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT! We'll be doing our only live gig of the year at the New Cross Inn in London. Come on down it's going to be AWESOME. Here's the First Drink Of The Day from the same place last year... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jha...

Can you imagine a world with fossil bacon? La la la la la Can you imagine if pork had petrifaction? La la la la la @rathergood.bsky.social

When you finally meet God and still fail the vibes check. 😬👼 👀 Subscribe for weekly chaos, sanctioned by no known deity. https://www.youtube.com/@GleefulBeasts #Animation #UnrealEngine #Puppets #Music #ComedyVideo

Somewhere, unbidden, the nonsense name "Gingoskophot" burst into my head. Could not for the life of me recall where I remembered it from. Turns out it was Tales of the Blode episode 4 by @rathergood.bsky.social, which, on reflection, makes a lot of sense.