In the last few days we've gotten some emails and Facebook messages of Crooked Monkey sightings throughout the New World .

From Rome (below) to Colombia (above), The monkey is spreading his.... love.

How do we get these pictures? Well the "I'd tap that" picture was found by a former Crooked Monkey intern, and current BBM acquaintance. She was perusing a friend of a friends pictures and found this t-shirt. At Crooked Monkey we call this research. In academic circles they call it Stalking.

Labels: As seen on, Customer stories, Facebok stalking, Facebook, i'd tap that, Interns, Spotted, World Travels

We did it. We reached 1,300 facebook fans. We dedicated today to the 1,300th fan. I believe it was a dog (no joke) by the name of Amos Cogan. I wish it would've been a monkey, but we'll take a dog.

Speaking of which, we had always said that when we made it, we'd buy a monkey for the office. But we need a milestone to set for this goal. Any suggestions?

Labels: Facebook, Milestones

Crooked Monkey was the first business to ever use Facebook. We launched in the summer of 2005, just when Facebook was hitting the college scene in a big way. Back then, Facebook was much different. There was no tagging of pictures, no fan pages, and no global groups. You could only view profiles of other students who attended your school.

But somehow, even with all those restrictinos, we created 20 "Crooked Monkey Hotties" groups at campuses across the country. We had over 4,000 beautiful women, spread across the USA who were part of our group. I still meet people today who tell me that they are part of that elite group. What a legacy.

It wasn't easy to accumulate all those groups and hotties. We had to borrow our friends usernames and password, create the groups, and then find hot girls on campuses to join the groups. How did we do this? Since we didn't actually know anyone on that campus, we had to be quite wily. We searched hot names, like Heather, Melissa, Kirsten--don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. We also searched thru the good looking sororities--those are obvious. And then we sent out the invitations--and voila 20 Campus groups with at least 200 of the hottest girls on campus all clamoring to be Crooked Monkey Hotties.

4 years later, Facebook makes our lives a lot easier. We have a universal fan group and are not forced to commandeer our friend's logins. Our Fan group now is a lot better--everyone's invited, we run promotions and contests, and let you know about new t-shirts. So join it, and make our life easier.

Labels: About us, Crooked Monkey hotties, Facebook, History, the early days, top blog posts

Crooked Monkey uses Google Analytics to see how people come to our website and see what specific pages on our site people like. We can also see how people get to our website--whether they found us by searching for funny t-shirts or from a blog that writes about us.

Oftentimes we get welcomed surprises--websites that are sending us traffic that we didn't even know wrote about us. This morning I checked analytics and found that people were coming from Seventeen.com. What a welcomed bonus.

They listed us under their "The cutest Tees" section, and we occupy the top 5 spots in it. Thanks guys.

Their list:
1)Facebook its my day job girls t-shirt
2)Give Peas a chance girls t-shirt
3)Sole Mates Girls t-shirt
4)Boys are so Last Season Girls T-shirt
5)Don't Frown Boogie Down Girls T-shirt

Labels: analytics, boys are so last season, don't frown boogie down, Facebook, give peas a chance, Press, Seventeen Magazine, sole mates, website stuff

Big shout out to The Scene Bisnow, a highly read daily email from the guys at Bisnow. They did a nice little write about us yesterday and we got a ton of emails and Facebook messages congratulating us. I wore our Life Comes at you fast t-shirt for the shoot, because I knew it'd be a fan favorite. And my hand is resting on our Don't be Trashy shirt.

Its always nice to get written up in the local Press.

Labels: As seen on, don't be trashy, Facebook, life comes at you fast, Press, The Scene bisonw

I'm pretty sick and tired of hearing the word Twitter. Twitter this, twitter that. Facebook this, facebook that. Blogging this blogging that. I'm especially annoyed when the old people at CNN ask me to comment on their blog, twitter, facebook, myspace, digg, delicious, wall, testimonials on Friendster, and gravestone. Stop trying too hard. I appreciate them trying to pander to the younger generation, but figure out a less annoying way to do it. They are clearly uncomfortable doing it, but they're forced to because they don't want to be seen as out of touch. Well I've got news for you, Jack Cafferty will never look comfortable saying "Check out my blog."

Having said all that, Crooked Monkey now has a Twitter page! We're allowed to--we're not over the age of 50, we're not boring, and we're not annoying. We're funny. That's why we make funny t-shirts. We just made our page look pretty awesome, so check it out, start following us. And while you're at it, subscribe to our RSS feed too.

We might start doing some crazy sales using our twitter--like For the next 15 minutes, all t-shirts 40% off. (But that was just a false alarm.) How about this, when we hit 300 Followers we'll do a 40% off for 40 minutes promo using twitter. Tweet tweet.

Labels: blogging about blogging, CNN, Facebook, myspace, ruminations, social media, technology, Twitter

Breaking News: Facebook has officially recognized Crooked Monkey as a network on Facebook. This is huge. This is bigger than when we made the Forbes 500 list last year. Crooked Monkey has joined the ranks of other companies found officially on Facebook like Nike, Under Armour, and Google.

Now when I tell people I work for Crooked Monkey, I know that I have the credibility of Facebook's Network system to back up my claims. If you'd like to join our network, email us a compelling reason (or post it here) and if we like it, we'll let you join it.

Check out our Girls Facebook Stalker t-shirt, Girls Facebook it's my day job t-shirt and Guys version of the Facebook it's my day Job t-shirt

Labels: About us, Facebook, History, Milestons, Office Stories, top blog posts

Today is a day for posting new funny t-shirts from Crooked monkey. We posted our University of Maryland college licensed t-shirts earlier today. That was a huge post for all Terp fans, and for anybody who Fears the Turtle.

So here's our Facebook Stalker shirt. It goes well with our Tag this t-shirt and our Facebook it's my day job t-shirt. It's actually my favorite of all three, although all three are pretty awesome. This completes our trio of facebook shirts. Look out for our poking t-shirt, coming out soon.

Labels: Facebook, new t-shirt

Our t-shirt, Waking up is hard to do T-shirt, is based on the song "Cause breaking up is hard to do," so it was no surprise when we got an email from one of our customers the other day asking for our return policy.

She told us that she had purchased two Crooked monkey t-shirts and needed to return them because from the time she ordered the shirts until she received them, her relationship status on Facebook went from "In a relationship" to "single."

That's not the first time that happened. The same girl that wrote and composed "I got dumped for Obama" also got dumped 3 years ago. Her name is Rachel, and she bought our "I slid into third at rachel's bat mitzvah" t-shirt. And this was in the beginning days when we didn't keep stock. It took us about 4 weeks to ship it, and by then she had been dumped (for another girl) and canceled her order.

A few valuable lessons: A)Crooked Monkey makes great gifts for boyfriends. B)When you get dumped by a boyfriend/girlfriend, come to Crooked Monkey. We now have a dumpee discount. Type in dumpee at checkout and get 15% off at checkout. But you better be able to prove that you're newly single.

Labels: boyfriend, Customer stories, dumped, Facebook, girlfriend, holiday gifts, i slid into third at rachel's bat mitzvah, Life stories, Promo Code, relationship stories, top blog posts, waking up is hard to do