On Thursday, CNN Money came out with a feature on the Top 10 Next Generation Entrepreneurs to watch. Included in the list of 10 was a Restauranteur, a Vending Machine Mogul, and Yours truly. What an honor.

We launched the brand in 2005, and have been working since then to build Crooked Monkey into what it is today--awesome t-shirts for awesome people.  When we started, we focused on the humor market.  Then we added the graphic market to our catalog.  Now we are the destination for awesome tees. The nomination is a thumbs up/recognition to everything we're doing here at Crooked Monkey--and all the loyal fans and supporters across the globe.

The piece itself is pretty funny and cheeky, check it out.

So what's next for Crooked Monkey? How are we going to continue to provide awesome t-shirts and build the brand?  Well most importantly we're relaunching/revamping our site.  Its an exciting and long process--right now we're going through the cosmetic changes. It's all about finding that unique Crooked Monkey voice and funneling that into the design.

We're super stoked to be on CNN Money's top 10 list, and we won't let them down.  Cheers to the next six years of Livin the Dream.

Happy Valentine's Day!  We hope you're showing all the love you can today.

We just wanted to give a quick shoutout to all the lovers out there and to Seventeen Magazine, who tweet pic'ed our I Love My BFF Girls V neck t-shirt

If you love your BFF, today's the day to let them know!

We were on NBC 4 (Washington DC's NBC affiliate) as a "best gift under $50".  Tommy McFly, the super bad ass radio personality from 94.7 Fresh FM, brought our "That's How I Roll Men's T-shirt" for the segment.

Watch the video here

As it turns out, you can get 2 Crooked Monkey t-shirts for under $50.  That's twice the fun, with the same amount of funds.

Happy Shopping

The Washington Business Journal's 40 Under 40, which "recognizes the Washington region's brightest young business leaders based on demonstrated business success over the past 12 to 18 months," was just announced.  I'm honored to be one of this year's honorees.

As part of the program, they had us fill out a questionnaire, take part in a video conversation, and pose for pictures.  You can check out my responses and more info on the award here: Micha Weinblatt's 40 Under 40 Award.

As you can tell, i'm wearing our Tans and hot tubs T-shirt, but what you can't see is the shirt i'm swinging over my shoulder.  That shirt is an original favorite of mine, our Rachel's Bat Mitzvah t-shirt.

Anyways, thanks for the support and for making Crooked Monkey what it is.

Milinda  Jefferson, a lead reporter for Angie's Army of OMG TV (The CBS news affiliate of CH. 9 WUSA), is very involved with supporting the troops.  She and her business partner/camera man Jerome Bourgeois went to the Super Bowl and compiled an amazing video with shutouts from tons of celebrities Supporting our troops.

When we met Milinda and she told us about her passion for the soldiers and her efforts, we immediately wanted to help her anyway we could.  So we gave her and her whole crew Crooked Monkey gear to wear for the weekend. She repped us beautifully.  Check out the video and you'll see Crooked Monkey t-shirts popping up everywhere.

Thanks Milinda for all you do!  Keep up the good work

The always fashionable and impeccably dressed Kurt Hummle, as played by Chris Colfer, was spotted in our Geek is the New Chic Guys T-shirt in Glee: Episode 3, Accafellas.

We are super psyched. Glee is one of the hottest shows on TV right now, and they're wearing Crooked Monkey t-shirts! Hip hip hooray!

Glee joins Weeds, Leverage, and "So you think you can dance" in the category of TV shows with awesome style. Eclipse, the third saga in the Twilight series, will be joining the category of Movies with the best style when Eclipse features our Sketched boombox t-shirt.

Big shout out to Cara, best former intern ever, for spotting this one. It wasn't an easy spot, as Kurt was wearing a blazer over our Geek is Chic t-shirt, but I guess we trained her well. She also is responsible for letting us know about Ryan Seacrest wearing our I'm not a gardener i just like hoes t-shirt. Three cheers for Cara. Well actually two cheers for Cara. She'll get a third cheer on her next spotting.

Crystal Harris, from the TV show Girls next door and Miss December 2009, was on E!News last night showing Ryan Seacrest what shirts she's going to buy her friends for Christmas. And guess what she found at Fred Segal Fun in Los Angeles?

Our Don't waste my daytime minutes t-shirt! Awesome. I DVRed the show and will post the video later (couldn't find it anywhere on the internet for some reason).

This slogan tee, or sayings t shirt, was also featured in Seventeen Magazine last year. Grab yours online--for you or your best friend: Don't waste my daytime minutes girls shirt

Guest blog by Dr. Mark Drapeau, originally posted on BrianSolis.com, about our Photoshoot at the Warehouse:

I hadn’t heard of the popular t-shirt company Crooked Monkey until I was invited to an exclusive party they recently held. You see, even though they get great press from actors wearing their shirts in movies and magazines talking about their fashion styles, Crooked Monkey is based in Washington, DC – not widely known as the fashion capital of the country. And they wanted to do some local brand building.

This wasn’t just any party. Sure, there were attractive guests in a cool setting with great drinks and music all the usual stuff. It was what they did differently that made it the most memorable event Ive been to in a long time.

Lets start with how I even found out about the event – a secretive email from someone I didn’t know telling me that my friend recommended me as a guest for the event. This is somewhere in between Facebook and Eyes Wide Shut. Then, a request for my home address, to which was mailed a package containing an envelope with a paper invitation, and also a sparsely decorated white t-shirt, which I was required to save for the party two months later and bring with me to gain admittance. Finally, a bag of tart banana candies finished the package.

Further inspection revealed that the event was on a Sunday night (no night is safe from parties!) at a secret location to be given to us later. Keep in mind that I dont know the person behind the party, nor the other guests, and now also not the location. Still later I discovered by email invitation that the event would be in a warehouse in a not-so-savory part of Washington, DC and that we MUST bring our white t-shirts because wed be doing something with them on the night of the event.

When the day of the event came, I really couldn’t stand not knowing anything! I texted the contacts I had for the event to ask questions, but they revealed little. I emailed some socialite friends to try to figure out who else would be there we knew it would be all tastemakers of different sorts, but no one really knew who was going, which was exciting. I used Google Maps to investigate the location of the warehouse. I stressed about what one wears to such events (I think I chose well!).

Even the party itself was very engaging. An artist created a mural from our white t-shirts that we used for entry right in front of our eyes. An old-fashioned photo booth let us take pictures with each other, and the photo strips had (what else?) a Crooked Monkey logo on them. Even the name of the event Photoshoot at the Warehouse gave the party an active quality.

Do you detect a pattern here? Crooked Monkey kept busy, elite attendees who get invited to tons of events mentally engaged with their event for weeks. They made us part of telling their story. They got us to talk about their brand before, during, and after the event. And in the end, the event delivered with a cool venue, outstanding bar, fun atmosphere, and lots of fashion.

Photoshoot at the Warehouse is a great example of putting the public back in public relations and brand engagement. How great? Im writing an entire post about them – and I dont even like wearing t-shirts!

This post originally appeared on Brian Solis’ PR 2.0 site.

We did some research and here's what we found. Nathan Trasoras wore our Keyboard Graphic t-shirt on Season 6, Episode 7 of the So you Think you Can Dance TV show. He's on the show for a good part of it--from minute 3 until minute 4:45 and he wears the shirt well.

We're going to embed the YouTube video here for you to see the shirt in action, but chances are it might get taken down.

We just got an email from a fan saying they saw one of our guys shirts on the TV show "So you think you can dance" last night. We're finding out more details--like which guy wore it, which t-shirt it was and whether or not he can do the moonwalk.

The season started less than a month ago, and already two dancers have worn our t-shirts. (Check out the other t-shirt on so you think you can dance). I'm not sure what it is, but it looks like there's a direct correlation between being a good dancer and wearing Crooked Monkey's graphic t-shirts.

Maybe we should come out with a commercial, where Michael Jackson is trying, trying to dance. But he just can't get the rhythm, the timing, the moves right. He throws on one of our t-shirts, and bam, he's moon walking and side walking all over the Apollo theatre. How should this commerical end?