I'm often either listening to music or watching a movie/TV when I design for Crooked Monkey.
Here are a list (in no particular order) of things that have actually given me inspiration for designs...

Tron (1982)

To Sir With Love (1967)

Saved by the Bell (1989-1993)

Rappin' (1985)

The Hangover (2009)

Rebbeca Black's Friday video (2011)

Taxi Driver (1976)

מציצים‎ [Metzitzim {translates to Peeping}] (1973)

PS, this movie was the main inspiration for You Don't Mess With The Zohan

Mr. Mom (1983)

Das Racist

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Human Centipede (2009)

Ok, so not so much inspiration, but I watched it while designing the Keepin' It Fresh tee.

...especially since Donald lets her wear whatever she wants, no matter the occation is!

(sorry--it's fake)

Fine, so maybe you don't have kids. But let's pretend you do for now. Let's say you have a boy and a girl--both named Pat--and they're only 6-years-old. You have to leave them with a babysitter and only have these three choices:

1. Lady Gaga
2. Rihanna
3. Tyler the Creator of Odd Future (or OFWGKTA)

Lady Gaga
PROs:
-She can play dress up with them.
-She'll treat them to ice cream.
CONs:
-The ice cream is made from "mothers milk, you little monsters."

Rihanna
PROs:
-Her hair is the same color as Nickelodeon.

CONs:
-Disciplining the kids with a whip is not only abusive, but it's confusing...right?

Tyler the Creator
PROs:
-He'll protect them if any intruders come by because he's incredibly threatening when he yells.
-He knows Justin Bieber

CONs:
-He yells often, so he'll be threatening to your kids, too.
BONUS PRO: He'll also treat them to ice cream

Ok, so there are your options.
Enjoy.

-C. Monkey

We love when our customers/fans send in pictures of them wearing their favorite C monkey t-shirt with pride.  Here's some facts i've noticed about our customers:

1)They like to wear cool t-shirts.

2)They like to have a good time.

3)They are diverse--from all backgrounds, cultures and cities.

4)They are the life of the party.  (as evidenced in the most recent batch of pictures)

Thanks Delonte, for sending these in.

Randomly, I was in the elevator wearing our LOL OMG WTF t-shirt and some guy said "That'd be a great t-shirt to wear to a baseball game, for the umpire to see."  I said, "Funny you should say that, because last week I wrote a whole blog article on which t-shirt is the best to wear to a baseball game..."

Weird.  No one has ever suggested what t-shirt I should wear to a baseball game, ever. And now, within a week of publicly declaring my feelings for the whole world to see, another individual gives me their two cents.

Through the Orioles have not contended for a playoff spot in over 10 years, I'm still a big O's fan.  Last weekend I headed over to Oriole Park at Camden Yards with some friends to watch the O's play the Devil Rays.  I wore an Orioles hat and then had to figure out which shirt to wear.

After running through my array of tees, my eyes landed on our I slid into third at Rachel's Bat Mitzvah tee shirt, a classic Crooked Monkey bat mitzvah Baseball t-shirt, and I knew I had a winner.

When you own a clothing company, there's really a t shirt for every occasion. 

Our favorite rock guitarist is playing for Enrique on Americon Idol on Thursday night, May 12th.  The show starts at 8 pm, we're not sure when Enrique is performing, but its a good excuse to catch the whole episode.

What Crooked monkey t-shirt will Alex, if any, be wearing?  Tweet it out @crookedmonkey if/when you see it.

You can friend/become a fan of alex on his Facebook Fan Page:

Following yesterday's blog article about riding the metro, my friend, who drives an SUV and loves a good trip on the DC Metro, sent me a BBM (blackberry messenger) with the text "why i need to be more urban."

The first step is recognizing the problem.... 

I'm a big fan of public transportation--it's convenient, economical, and most important of all, Green.  The Washington DC metro is super clean and very nice.  Its a pleasure to ride, especially when it's not rush hour.  The New York subway/bus system is truly amazing--you can get anywhere in the city for $2.25--and the trains are always running.

So this weekend, wherever I was going, I was taking public transportation.  I'm hoping this was just a bad weekend to experiment, because it was an annoying experience. 

Friday night--dinner in Cleveland Park.  So we decided to take two buses to get there.  First one--wait was 5 minutes. No problem.  Second one--wait was 15 minutes.  AHHHHHHHH.  4 other buses departed before mine got there. The dinner was lovely--thanks for asking.  Then we hopped on the Cleveland Park metro to go to Dupont.  19 minute wait.  AHHHHHH.  But we did meet lovely people on the metro, so that was nice.  On the way home, we cheated and took a cab.

Saturday--Heading to the O's game.  My friend lives in Rockville so we decided to meet up at the Forest Glen Metro Station.  Green line--10 minute wait.  Longer than usual, but hey it's the weekend. Switch at Fort Totten, and it was a 17 minute wait--to go four stops.  AHHHHHH.  Metro ride itself was nice--got to catch up with an old friend.  On the way home, we got smarter and took the Greenbelt station (no transferring) and only had a 9 minute wait.  Saturday night - Took my inaugural Capital Bikeshare ride (more to come on that pleasure, because i'm a huge fan of capital bikeshare) to Dupont circle.  Got on the metro at around 11 PM-- 15 minute wait.  AHHHH.  From Tenleytown, I biked home.  I had learned my lesson.

The weekend of public transportation?  More like the weekend of the 15 minute wait.

To be fair, I think this weekend there was some track work going on, so that's why all the trains were so late.  I'm still a big fan of the Metro system, but it'd be a lot easier to be an evangelist if the trains ran more frequently.  Which is why we need to continue to ride the metro--so they have a reason to run the trains more often.

What does this post have to do with Funny t-shirts?  Not much.  But its got a lot to do with living in Washington DC

But that doesn't mean we have to like it.  I was perusing the Journey's website today when, voila, I found our That's What she Said t-shirt on their site, only we don't currently sell to Journeys.

Our shirt has been on our line for so long that it's been produced, sold out, and retired.  But we'll let you be the judge.  Do you think they look similar?

Journeys That's what she said t-shirt

Crooked Monkey's that's what she said t-shirt

We know the slogan isn't too original, but our artwork is...  But I will say that even though we're not happy, we are somewhat flattered.