We have been blessed recently with some pretty awesome press. Those cool cats in LA can't get enough of our funny t-shirts.

Unfortunately we can't release the picture of Ryan wearing the Keep the Ratio Strong T-shirt, but take our word for it--he wears that shirt well.

Twice in one month? We're super happy. Our funny shirts are really doing us proud.

Contrary to what you may think, you cannot just walk into the bank and cash an oversized check--those checks are just for PR purposes. I'd be interested in learning the history of the oversized check. I know it wasn't just created for Happy Gilmore.

I was tempted to bring the check to the bank with me today and try to cash it--and videotape the experience. But we had some technical difficulties.

Today we got an email from the Dignman Center and BB&T; informing us how to collect on the prize money.

What will we be using the money for?
1)You know what I would do if I had a million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities...
2)Making more funny t-shirts
3)Making more graphic t-shirts
4)Revamping our website to make it more Google friendly (when you google funny t-shirts, we want to be first).

As you all aware, we are running a 20% discount on all our funny shirts. You don't have to type in a promo code--its a gift to celebrate our 200th blog post.

A customer of ours just logged onto the site and got a phenomenal deal--better than any recession buster deal I've seen.

Here's how it went down: Fully aware that you can get free shipping when you buy two or more shirts, he ordered a couple Facebook t-shirts at the regular 20% sale, and then entered an extra 15% promo code at checkout. Leaving him with a total discount of 42% off!! The total should've been: $53, but because of his savvy shopping, he only paid $30.72. Good work. We're always happy to see our customers take advantage of great deals, and this is one of those once-in-a-lifetime deals.

This is actually the 206th blog post, but who's counting?

To celebrate our 100th blog post we wrote an awesome post, but promised a few things that we didn't follow through on. This blog won't be as good as that one, but it will follow through on all those empty promises. Specifically rating our top blogs.

If you notice, on the bottom of all of our blogs, we assign different labels to make it easier for our readers to search through our different topics/subjects. And to direct readers to our favorite blogs, we invented a label entitled "top blog posts" that we give to posts we deem hilarious. Its a bit presumptuous, considering the fact that we assign that label as its published, before receiving any feedback or before anyone's even read the blog. But I guess we really only make jokes that make us laugh anyways.

So here's the Top 10+1 list. We chose funny blog posts, informative blog posts, milestones in our history, and sometimes politically inspired posts. And of course all of our posts have a deep connection to our Funny T-shirts.

11. Face Cream Moisturizer--gotta keep that face wrinkle free Blog post
10. 100th Blog Post! 15% off all Funny t-shirts and Balloon Release Party Milestone Blog Post
9. Facebook Officially Recognizes Crooked Monkey Milestone Blog Post
8. Entourage is back -in more ways than one a Review Blog Post
7. Hitting for the cycle on Election Day Politically Inspired Blog Post
6. The Day of judgment is upon us Religious Blog Post

5. Special Edition Autographed T-shirt
4. Things you can't find on Google --The post that started the series
3. Don't Fuck with C Monkey - Legal Blog Post
2. America wins the Super Bowl Politically Inspired Blog Post
1. I Don't do Lines Politically inspired Blog Post

Let us know how you'd rank our top 11--or if we left a post off this list.

In honor of the 200th blog post, we're going to do a store-wide 20% discount on all our funny t-shirts. Enjoy!

(P.S. The photo above is a picture of cupcakes that were made by Julia for my birthday last month. If you look closely, you'll notice that the cupcakes are monkeys. Amazing. Look out for her new cupcake shop coming to DC in 2011.)

This weeks installment of "Dj Shnooms Song of the week" is quite appropriate for our new president. The group, called "The New Deal," is a reference to FDR's New Deal program--something that pundits say Obama should emulate.

Enjoy.

http://media.imeem.com/m/agPZ5s78hG/aus=false/

Gone Gone Gone - The New Deal

Crooked Monkey was established in 2005. In May, it will celebrate its 4 year anniversary. We've accomplished a lot in our short history--featured in magazines, picked up by department stores and trendy boutiques, and put a smile on over 120,000 happy customers. And now, finally, we can add, "receiving an oversized check (a la Happy Gilmore) to our list of accolades."

Starting in 2006, Kevin Plank (the founder and CEO of Under Armour) has hosted an annual business competition for the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, called the Cupid's Cup. In its first year, Crooked Monkey was nominated for the award and finished as a runner up in the competition. This year, Crooked Monkey could not compete for the award because our annual sales volume exceeded the upper limit.

Luckily BB&T; launched the BB&T; invitational--which features companies connected with the University of Maryland. It allows us to showcase our businesses, and invites students, alumn and other entrepreneurs to get a taste for each company. The attendees then vote for their favorite company and the winner is announced at the Cupid's Cup, in front of the entire Under Armour Executive team. There was stiff competition from a list of other strong, thriving entrepreneurs. But in the end our Funny t-shirts were a fan favorite and we took home the prize money and an oversized check!

Than you to: Kevin Plank, Asher Espstein (from the Dingman Center) and BB&T;.

For some reason, we're not able to stream the On air show with Ryan Seacrest--AHHHH. We've done everything the troubleshooting site asks of us, but its still not working. We downloaded some Firefox add-ons, but we still can't hear the Crooked monkey t-shirt promotion on the Ryan Seacrest radio show.

This is killing us over here. We want to hear the joy and excitement that all those lucky winners are feeling. Screeching, Shrieking, Crying. OMG OMG LOL ROTFL LMAO I CAN'T BELIEVE I JUST WONT A FREE SHIRT FROM CROOKED MONKEY.

Well if you are listenging to the Ryan Seacrest radio show, let us know how its going. Maybe even send us a tweet: @crookedmonkey.

As we stated in our blog post yesterday about the Ryan Seacrest t-shirt giveaway, we sent a bunch tee shirts for their radio show and they are giving out the shirts now. So if you're one of the lucky winners, congrats. If not, go check out the rest of our shirts on the Crooked Monkey t-shirt website

Before launching Crooked Monkey's funny t-shirts, I choreographed a little. This kid was my main student.

If you recall from the other week, Ryan Seacrest wore our I'm not a gardener I just like hoes t-shirt. We got in touch with their producers and sent over 20 of our favorite shirts for an On Air T-shirt Giveaway.

It's happening tomorrow, (Thursday). So if you're in the Los Angeles area, listen to the On Air Show with Ryan Seacrest from 6-8 AM (pacific time) and try to be one of the lucky On Air t-shirt giveaway winners. And if you're not in LA, stream it at the KISSFM website cause I'm sure they'll have a field day with the shirts we gave them.

Here's a little preview of what tees they'll be giving out for the On Air giveaway:
GUYS:
That's How I roll tee shirt
Old school knockout tee shirt
The Mac from Way Back tee shirt
She kissed a girl and i liked it tee shirt
Livin the dream tee shirt
I'm not a gardener i just like hoes tee shirt

GIRLS:
Geek is the new chic tee shirt
No Sleep til brooklyn tee shirt
Shoes, OMG Shoes tee shirt
Don't waste my daytime minutes tee shirt
That's how i roll tee shirt

Yesterday I decided that I wanted to get to the office early, so I left my apartment at 9 AM. I was rewarded with a lot of traffic and an extra 25 minutes to my early morning commute. I learned my lesson. Today I'm still working from my apartment.

Early bird gets the worm? More like, early bird gets stuck in traffic.