Funny T-Shirts, Original Retro T-Shirts, Vintage Shirts, Movie & TV Inspired Shirts

Drink Up with St Patricks Day Apparel and Drinking Gifts

2012-02-15T19:08:00.003-06:00

DRUNKS LOVE OUR T-SHIRTS AND GIFTS

Drink
Not Pinch T-Shirt

Little
Friend Leprechaun

Steins

Irish
ACDC T-Shirt

Need
Luck T-Shirt

Luck
Co-Pilot T-Shirt

Drink up ! It's Saint Patrick's Day on Saturday, March 17, 2012. It could be our last St Patricks Day after that whole 2012 doomsday end of the world nonsense, am I right? So why not buy your last St Patty's Day drinking t-shirts and gifts from KaptainMyke? After all, we sell shot glasses, steins, and pint drinking glasses that feature all of our amazingly awesome shirt designs by KaptainMyke. Check them out! We really love you right now!

Sippy
Cups

Shot
Glasses

Pint
Glasses

For giggles here's a matching sippy cup for the lil' alcoholic-to-be! (Might as well let that genetic disposition take over early, right?!) I'm going out on a limb here when I say some of our best sales go through into the middle of the night...so I'm sure alcohol has something to do with it.

We Love Valentines Day Heart T-Shirts

2012-01-10T16:25:00.005-06:00

VALENTINES DAY LOVE T-SHIRTS

I Love I Heart T-Shirts

I Love Myself T-Shirts

Somebody on Valentines Day Loves Me T-Shirts

Love is in the air! It's Valentines Day on February 14, 2012. It could be our last Valentines Day after that whole 2012 doomsday-end-of-the-world nonsense, am I right? So why not buy your last Valentine's Day heart t-shirts from KaptainMyke. We love you!

Thank You and Happy New Year!

2012-01-02T01:15:00.002-06:00

We wish to thank all of our Christmas 2011 Shoppers out there. KaptainMyke gives you his deepest and sincere thanks. "Thanks." We love you all! Each and every one of you. You are now part of a group of amazing people who wear amazing t-shirts.

Seriously, if it weren't for you folks out there wearing our artwork, we wouldn't keep doing it. It's nice to know there is an entire army of geniuses out there wearing our "Science helps you prove others are dumb." t-shirts. It makes us giggle like the inner little schoolgirls that we are!

For those of you who haven't bought our t-shirts and gifts: Buy our gifts and t-shirts. You know you want to.

Buy a high-quality KaptainMyke T-Shirt, and wear it proud. Know that you helped KaptainMyke, and help remind others of how great television and film can be. We make t-shirts. You need t-shirts. You should buy our t-shirts. Put on a KaptainMyke Brand T-Shirt and go do something amazing today.

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2011-12-10T11:10:00.000-06:00

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2011-12-08T10:32:00.000-06:00

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Christmas Shopping Super Sale

2011-12-08T10:18:00.000-06:00

Save $10 off orders of $50 or more use code "NORTH", $20 off orders of $80 or more use code "SOUTH", or $30 off orders of $100 or more use code "EAST", or $50 off $150 use code "WEST" on KaptainMyke t-shirts and gifts in the Cafepress Marketplace, excluding shipping charges, gift wrap charges and applicable sales tax.

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Save $10 off orders of $50 or more, $20 off orders of $80 or more, or $30 off orders of $100 or more, or $50 off $150 on CafePress.com, excluding shipping charges, gift wrap charges and applicable sales tax. Excludes Gift Certificates, Flip products, SIGG bottles, and bulk orders. Coupon code must be entered at check out. Promotion starts on December 8, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. (PST) and ends on December 8, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. (PST). All orders must be from the CafePress Marketplace. Offer valid online at CafePress.com only, cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotions and may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice. This promotion cannot be applied to past orders.

30% Off Entire Order

2011-12-06T10:12:00.002-06:00

KaptainMyke sells menswear, womenswear, kids apparel and great gift ideas. We sell funny tee shirts. Whether you're searching for really funny clothing, apparel, t-shirts, tee shirts, shirts, t shirts, gift ideas, gifts, funny shirts, gifts for guys, mens shirts, plus size clothing, mens clothing, clothing stores, menswear, KaptainMyke offers a massive selection of gift items, mens apparel, womens apparel, baby apparel, and kids apparel. KaptainMyke sells womens t-shirts, guys t-shirts, childrens t-shirts, funny shirts, licensed shirts, movie shirts, tv shirts, weird shirts, and retro shirts. Our funny t-shirts and gifts are great for tv fans, movie fans, parties, birthday ideas, and holiday gifts! Need a gift idea? Be sure to browse and shop our gift page. We have hundreds of high quality products that range from funny to cool to just plain weird.

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2011-12-04T19:38:00.002-06:00

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2011-12-01T17:45:00.000-06:00

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GET 30% OFF ALL T-SHIRTS by KAPTAINMYKE

2011-11-30T11:52:00.003-06:00

Cyber Monday is over, but the savings continue as we trek into the 2011 Christmas Season. Now is your chance to save on all KaptainMyke Brand retro and vintage movie/tv t-shirts at Cafepress.

No coupon needed, just shop from the marketplace at Cafepress.

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GET 25% OFF ALL T-SHIRTS by KAPTAINMYKE

2011-11-29T10:12:00.002-06:00

Cyber Monday is over, but the savings continue as we trek into the 2011 Christmas Season. Now is your chance to save on all KaptainMyke Brand retro and vintage movie/tv t-shirts at Cafepress. No coupon needed, just shop from the marketplace at Cafepress.com.

Get 25% off all t-shirts right now, no coupon needed.

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Super Weekend Sale at KaptainMyke Zazzle Store

2011-11-26T09:59:00.001-06:00

Super Weekend Sale @Zazzle too.

$5 OFF all t-shirts
40% OFF cards and invitations
30% OFF framed prints and posters
FREE Shipping on orders of $50+
FREE 2 Day Shipping

Use code: "SUPERWEEKEND" at checkout.

http://www.zazzle.com/kaptainmyke

This sale applies to all Zazzle stores. Shop from many stores and checkout in the same shopping cart! Shop these and other fine stores at Zazzle:

Movie Shirts
Star Wars
Disney
Cars 2
Looney Tunes
Barbie
South Park
VH1
Deadliest Catch
JibJab
Harry Potter
Seventeen Magazine
Quirk Classics
Hallmark
Backyardigans
Dora The Explorer
iCarly
Sponge Bob Squarepants
Garfield
Jackass
Pink Panther
Casper
Scooby Doo
Mythbusters

Comic Book Heroes
DC Comics
Batman
Superman
Green Lantern
Marvel Comics
Iron Man 2
Spider-Man
Hulk
Wolverine
Justice League
Supergirl
Wonder Woman
Marvel Classics
Marvel Romantic Adventures

Music Bands
Jason Mraz
Rob Thomas
Incubus
Interpol
Paste Magazine
Cheap Trick
Lil Wayne
Kiss
Black Eyed Peas
Fergie
ZZ Top
Woodstock
Motley Crue
Gary Allan
Alice Cooper
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Brazilian Girls
Breaking Benjamin
Cinderella
Dream Theater
Folk Festival
Gene Simmons
George Michael
John ogerty
Lil Jon
Maroon 5
Michelle Williams
Mims
David Cassidy
OK Go
Paste Merch
Plain White T's
Poison
Preservation Hall
Rod Stewart

25% OFF Black Friday Sale at KaptainMyke

2011-11-25T16:53:00.000-06:00

IT'S A BLACK FRIDAY SALE All KaptainMyke Brand shirts @Cafepress are 25% OFF.
No coupon needed. All orders must be from the CafePress Marketplace.

http://www.cafepress.com/sk/kaptainmyke

Big Lebowski Movie Shirts Back from the Vault!

2011-10-30T11:50:00.009-05:00

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Jeff Bridges stars as Jeff Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles slacker and

avid bowler, who is referred to (and also refers to himself) as "The Dude". After a case of mistaken identity, The Dude is introduced to a millionaire also named Jeffrey Lebowski. When the millionaire Lebowski's trophy wife is later kidnapped, he commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release. The plan goes awry when The Dude's friend Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) schemes to keep the full ransom. Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Huddleston, Julianne Moore,Tara Reid, and John Turturro star in the film, which is narrated by a cowboy known only as "Stranger," played by Sam Elliott.

KaptainMyke is excited to announce after 5 years, we have brought our Big Lebowski movie shirts and gifts from out of the vault! In the next few weeks we will continue to roll out our extensive collection of Lebowski bowling related shirts and gifts. Cafepress has partnered with Universal Studios and Universal Television to allow for fan based tee shirts and gift items. Look for other exciting new tv show and movie designs coming soon from KaptainMyke!

Some of our new Lebowski shirts we have added this past week are:

See all of our Big Lebowski movie shirts and gifts here: kaptainmyke.com/biglebowskimovie

Yep, We are Still Here.

2011-09-06T22:27:00.001-05:00

It's been a little while since I've last posted an entry to the KaptainMyke Blog. Apologies to all who may or may not be concerned. 2011 is already almost over! How'd that happen?! I turned around and now it's September. Crazy.

Update: KaptainMyke has removed a few designs from our lineup of apparel and gift items. Keep in mind that all designs are displayed in our inventory for a limited time only, so keep that in mind when you shop at KaptainMyke. Look forward to some exciting new designs and products coming soon during the fall and winter season!

Have a great school year kids!

-KaptainMyke

NEW! Seinfeld Shirts and Seinfeld Gifts

2011-02-13T11:18:00.007-06:00

KaptainMyke is proud to announce a partnership between Warner Brothers Studios and Cafepress. This means in the future we will be selling more movie and tv based apparel and gifts! One of KaptainMyke's favorite tv shows is Seinfeld.

We have quite a few Seinfeld tv show designs to start, with A LOT more coming soon. We have some of the top selling Seinfeld shirt designs out there on the Internet, so this is a great opporotunity to showcase some of our best work!

Check out the main KaptainMyke Seinfeld tv show shirts and gifts right here: Seinfeld tv show apparel and gifts

We have added 10 new designs in the past few weeks such as the "Smog Strangler" and the "Summer of George" shirts.

We have placed those under the latest shirts section here: What's NEW

NEW! The Big Bang Theory Apparel and Gifts

2011-02-13T11:08:00.001-06:00

KaptainMyke is proud to announce a partnership between Warner Brothers Studios and Cafepress. This means in the future we will be selling more movie and tv based apparel and gifts!

We have quite a few Big Bang Theory tv show designs to start, with more coming soon.

Are you a fan of The Big Bang Theory? We love Dr. Sheldon Cooper! Check out some of the Big Bang Theory designs put up in the past week: The Big Bang Theory shirts and gifts

Thanks

2011-01-06T18:58:00.004-06:00

New Coupons for Last Minute Shoppers!

2010-12-14T18:26:00.000-06:00

Still not too late!

FREE SHIPPING $40+ use code "SHOPSHIP"

40% OFF T-SHIRTS use code "PEARTREE"

Server outage this morning

2010-12-13T13:32:00.001-06:00

We apologize for the outage. In the prime of our season for sales, Yes - we are down. I've been all over support regarding our ill timed server outage. Sorry, folks!

SAVE $5 use code "LRTXY99" http://htxt.it/7LbH

we are sorry for the server outages! In the meantime go to our RedBubble store, made in the USA American Apparel printed on 100% organic cotton... http://fb.me/OudHSWvr

PSSSssssss! Made in the USA Organic American Apparel Skreened t-shirts: http://bit.ly/8IXSH3 #gifts #christmas

24 HR SHIPPING! It's not too late! Browse our TOP 100 T-SHIRTS: http://bit.ly/ibbcwV

New Baby Apparel Page and Gift Page!

2010-11-26T14:57:00.001-06:00

We just added a new baby apparel page and gift center page!

KaptainMyke.com has added new baby products to keep your little ones bundled up for the rumored cold winter freeze of 2010. Check out the baby blakets, baby hats, and infant long sleeve bodysuits and infant long sleeve t-shirts.

KaptainMyke Brand Apparel and Gifts is proud to announce we are selling iPod and iPad cases as well as all new Thermos Brand thermal drinkware during the 2010 Holiday Season!

Let's git gift shoppin'!

Hot New Products at KaptainMyke.com, Inc.

2010-11-18T09:37:00.029-06:00

Hot New Products at KaptainMyke.com, Inc.

Beach Totes Take it outside. Our rugged beach tote is the perfect bag for trips to the surf, soccer game or picnic. Roomy, it features side panels for extra support and an inside lining for water resistance and simple cleaning. With durable straps (and pockets on the outside and inside), it's the only bag you'll need for that fun-filled day trip.

Gym Bags Headed to the club for a work out? No sweat. Our Nylon Gym Bag from American Apparel is the perfect way to transport those damp gym clothes back home. Made with a water-resistant Nylon Pack Cloth construction, it's made for the rigorous demands of an athletic lifestyle. With a durable zipper (surrounded by reinforced-Nylon) and Nylon webbing straps, you'll love this versatile and durable bag.

FUNtainer Food Thermoses Perfect for lunch bags or picnics, this durable food jar does an incredible job of keeping your food or drink hot or cold. Although small enough for easy transporting, it's big on convenience. Soups on! Plus, it's great for keeping your "stash", too!

iPhone 3G Hard Cases Safeguard the iPhone 3 from dings and scratches with this rugged & durable hard plastic case (with a polished finish). It snaps onto devices and gives easy access to all controls.

iPhone 4 Slider Cases Protect the iPhone 4 with this back cover, two-piece case. It features a removable bottom (with a soft grip for easy handling) that slides off for quick docking. A hard plastic design protects from scratches.

iPhone 4 Clear Cases Safeguard the iPhone 4 in this thin, see-through soft case with molded-silicone siding. It fits securely around devices, delivering a better grip while protecting from dings and scratches.

Large Thermos Bottles This large, eco-friendly bottle keeps 34 ounces of your liquid hot or cold. And with its vacuum insulation, the temperature stays constant for even longer.

Can Coolers Be the envy of your tailgate party with this insulated can holder, or simply keep your drink cooler longer when you're at the BBQ or working in the garage. Just slide your can in and it stays cool while your hand avoids that icy cold aluminum (burrrrr).

FUNtainer Thermos Bottles With a built in straw that kids love (not to mention thirsty adults), this 12-ounce Thermos bottle keeps beverages icy cold. Rugged and well-made, its eco-friendly stainless steel design stands up to the rigors of recess.

Sigg 1L Water Bottles Help save the planet while you rehydrate in style with an eye-catching water bottle from SIGG. Made from a single piece of aluminum with an EcoCare BPA-free lining, it's ultra-lightweight (yet rugged and crack-resistant). To minimize unwanted tastes and scents, the inside is lined with a water-based, non-toxic epoxy resin that exceeds FDA leaching requirements.

Sigg .6L Water Bottles Help save the planet while you rehydrate in style with an eye-catching BPA-free water bottle from SIGG. Made from a single piece of aluminum, it's ultra-lightweight yet rugged and crack-resistant. To minimize unwanted tastes and scents, the inside is lined with a water-based, non-toxic epoxy resin that exceeds FDA leaching requirements.

Stackable Mugs (4) Wake up and smell the advantages of this space-saving Stackable Mug Set. With four ceramic mugs to the set, each has a slightly-pinched base so they stack perfectly together (just place one on top of the other for convenient storage). With an outside that's retro-white, the set features four mugs (each
one is printed with the same design). On the inside, you'll find that each mug has a different eye-catching color: Avocado, Sunflower, Sky blue, and Papaya.

Teddy Bears Our plush bear is a cutie in his own message-bearing t-shirt and festive red and blue ribbons. Here's a great gift for Valentine's Day, baby showers, birthdays, get well-wishes, a pair of wedding bears, or any reason you dream up. Put a smile on someone's face. Just grin and bear it!

NEW! Superhero t-shirts from Zazzle and Cafepress

2010-08-04T08:54:00.007-05:00

SUPERHERO SHIRTS

Up, up, and away! Save the day in your new superhero logo t-shirts from your favorite comic books and video games.

KaptainMyke has partnered with Cafepress and Zazzle to bring you licensed apparel and gifts from the official brand name stores. We sell brand new super hero logo t-shirts featuring movie character logos and tv show logos from hundreds of official brand name stores.

DC Comics

Nick Jr.

Disney

Star Wars

See more superhero shirts here

New Licensed Movie Shirts and TV Shirts

2010-07-30T12:13:00.001-05:00

We added some new links this week for Cafepress and Zazzle licensed t-shirts. This includes Batman shirts, Superman shirts, Wonder Woman shirts, Green Lanteren shirts, Toy Story shirts, and more.

Go there now: http://www.kaptainmyke.com/cgi-bin/store/cpshop.cgi/licensedtees

$5 Gifts and $10 T-Shirts!

2010-06-08T16:38:00.004-05:00

Here at KaptainMyke, we understand sometimes you need that extra buck on the shopping cart total to hook it up with a sweet coupon. We got 3.5" buttons, 2" buttons and magnets, as well as oval and rectangle stickers you can stick anywhere! Love bumper stickers? We do too! Get one for $4.99 and slap them all over. (The stickers)

We also feature keychains and 1.5" stickers on sheets of 20 from Zazzle so be aware of which shopping cart you check out from.

Buttons and Magnets

Bumper Stickers $5

Oval and Rectangular Stickers

Gifts under $5 and Shirts under $10 !

ABC Lost Main Title Theme Ringtone

2010-06-08T16:27:00.003-05:00

KaptainMyke loves Lost so much he tried to download a Lost theme or ringtone
set for his Droid phone. However, the only sounds or mp3s to download we could
find were sound effects from the blast doors inside the hatch, and the smoke
monster. KaptainMyke was looking for the main title sound effect. After a valiant
search, we gave up.

So we made one: Download Lost theme sound effect ringtone mp3 here. (save as)

Oh, be sure to check out the KaptainMyke Brand collection of ABC Lost t-shirts, commemorating one of the greatest television events in human history.

ABC LOST tv t-shirts collection

2010-05-16T17:15:00.016-05:00

Be sure to tune into this week's airing of LOST on ABC 5/18. (Which just so happens to be my father's birthday. Happy Birfday, Daddy!).

If you are a fan of the series, you must get a DHARMA Initiative Orientation Kit, which includes Season 5. On [Blu-ray] or DVD: Lost: The Complete Fifth Season Dharma Initiative Orientation Kit Or you can pickup just the Fifth Season (Collector's Edition with Bonus Disc and DHARMA Luggage Tag)

KaptainMyke Brand Officially Licensed Fan Merchandise ABC LOST t-shirts are selling fast right now.

The top selling t-shirt and gift designs currently are:

http://www.kaptainmyke.com/cgi-bin/store/cpshop.cgi/losttvseries.kaptainmyke.7116401+not-pennys-boat-lost.html

Original LOST tv series underwater Lighthouse Station hatch door displaying Charlie's hand with "NOT PENNY'S BOAT" logo across front.

http://www.kaptainmyke.com/cgi-bin/store/cpshop.cgi/losttvseries.kaptainmyke.7087369+i-heart-lost.html

Funny fan design with words "I LOVE LOST" featuring the Oceanic Airlines logo in place of the "o".

http://www.kaptainmyke.com/cgi-bin/store/cpshop.cgi/losttvseries.kaptainmyke.7087527+drive-shaft-lost.html t.html .7087527+drive-shaft-lost.html

Original LOST tv show design available on t-shirts and gifts across front that reads, Drive Shaft "You All Everybody". Drive Shaft is the one hit wonder British rock band started by rock god Charlie Pace and brother Liam Pace.

http://www.kaptainmyke.com/cgi-bin/store/cpshop.cgi/losttvseries.kaptainmyke.7092671+the-island-lost.html e-island-lost.html

Original LOST tv show design featuring a silhouette of passengers walking and falling off the word, "LOST" with island uprooted showing palm trees, Black Rock, Oceanic plane, a pillar of black smoke, spiral, and the numbers.

http://www.kaptainmyke.com/cgi-bin/store/cpshop.cgi/losttvseries.kaptainmyke.7115870+dharma-initiative-polar-bear-club.html

Original LOST tv series "Dharma Initiative Polar Bear Club" logo across front.

Polar Bear Magnets just $3.99 !

http://www.kaptainmyke.com/cgi-bin/store/cpshop.cgi/losttvseries.kaptainmyke.7127641+we-have-to-go-back-lost.html

Original LOST tv series screenprint featuring the popular phrase "We have to go back - back to the island", with 6 figures over letters with passenger silhouettes falling, palm trees, helicopter crashing, airplane, and Black Rock pirate ship with the infamous island, uprooted across front.

The series finale airs Sunday, May 23, 2010 on ABC.

The finale of the hit series LOST has been extended by half an hour because so much crucial material was shot and needed to be included.

"With so much story to tell, the timeslot needed to be expanded," ABC said in a statement on Wednesday.

The final episodes will now run from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on their scheduled finale of May 23. Jimmy Kimmel Live's "Aloha to LOST" hour-long post-show special will air at Kimmel's usual time of 12:05 a.m., the network said.

"We are now mere hours from locking the cut of the finale. We have been living in the editing rooms for 6 days and nights straight," Cuse Tweeted on Monday, later adding: "We're done. Amen."

The show premiered in 2004 and is currently on its sixth and last season.

Tickets to a LOST finale event that promises a screening of the second-to-last episode at UCLA on May 13 - more than a week before its air date, were sold out within minutes.

The final LOST script has been kept under wraps so tightly that even series actor Harold Perrineau, who plays Michael, says he is being kept in the dark. Check out a video interview with him!

Also check out all of OnTheRedCarpet.com's coverage of LOST! http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/2010/05/lost-finale-extended-by-half-hour-will-now-run-25-hours-long-on-may-23.html

Spring and Summer Apparel

2010-03-05T06:23:00.007-06:00

Short sleeve t-shirts for the long awaited spring and summer season.

The new spring and summer apparel page is up at KaptainMyke.com. It displays all the different types of apparel choices at Cafepress, sorted by men, women, and children. Not all product types are displayed on this page. We have highlighted the bestselling and lowest prices on those particular lines of clothing. You may see all choices on the left of every page at KaptainMyke.com.

See them now: Spring and Summer t-shirts

Lower Discounted Prices For All KaptainMyke Brand Cafepress Products!

2010-03-04T10:02:00.014-06:00

KaptainMyke Brand Enters CafePress Marketplace...again?

Spring is upon us. We think, anyway. KaptainMyke Brand has discounted our entire inventory for the spring to save money for the college kids and school children who want to dress themselves better. Now our prices closely match the marketplace prices at Cafepress. This means we have re-entered the marketplace for all KaptainMyke Brand t-shirts and gift inventory.

This comes just in time before the big Spring Break road trip down to Daytona Beach, right? That darn groundhog Phil made us all cover up our t-shirts with jackets and pimp coats. We hear that people are still shoveling snow over there in New York and Washington D.C.. (Do 2 periods go there in that sentence?)
Come on people, it's March. Is Mother Nature asleep at the wheel, or what? Would my 9th grade English teacher give me an "F" for this, future, and all previous posts? Are there too many rhetorical questions in this blog post?
Help us help you dress better as you take that test, throw that spitball, hurl up those whiteout bottles or staplers up at the ceiling tiles and have to pay for the end of year banquet in your co-op economics class since the district had to pay for repairs to the classroom.

So what if you got in-school suspension? At least you now sit in a corner cubicle staring blankly at that cheap varnished plywood wall in a KaptainMyke Brand logo tv show or movie inspired fan t-shirt. For a limited time, KaptainMyke Brand t-shirts and gift inventory at Cafepress will be re-introduced into the CP Marketplace. This gives you time to take advantage of savings for the spring and summer. Thanks again for helping us help you dress better in school.

At the advice of my esteemed fictional attorney, this is not a confession letter. The events portrayed in this blog post are entirely fictional and any names used have been changed to protect those individuals who did not do such events, at all. Those said fictional characters are sorry for the fictional teacher imagined in such a fictious post.

Check out our springtime and summer apparel sorted by children, womens, and mens t-shirts: http://bit.ly/dnbYFX

KaptainMyke Brand Sells Tee Shirts at Several Online Distributors

2009-10-21T12:36:00.008-05:00

What is the difference between a "Vintage" or "Regular" T-Shirt?

The latest most popular style in a t-shirt is "vintage". A "vintage" t-shirt has a worn, roughed up, or very old appearance. Believe it or not, many people prefer this on our older designs dating back to the 70s and 80s. This appearance on these brand new products give it a "nostalgic" look.

If you want a brand new, fresh looking, clear with bright, bold beautiful colors, look for tshirts that do not feature the word "Vintage" in the title. Also, be sure to enlarge the image and preview it as best you can before purchasing your t-shirt.

"This is not what I ordered"

Some customers have ordered a shirt from Skreened or Zazzle complaining it wasn't the shirt they ordered. I want to clarify to all customers: "Be careful and watch for the word "VINTAGE" in the title of product. In some instances, this is not clearly marked in the description or title - but please enlarge preview image of product to view final image. What you see is what you get"

"Why do you sell products on so many websites?"

We sell apparel from a variety of online distributors including Cafepress, Combotique, MySoti, Printfection, RedBubble, ShirtMagic, Skreened, SonicShack, SpreadShirt, ThatTShirtSite, Wordans, and Zazzle.

The reason is simple: to provide more shipping options and more product options to the customer.

"How am I supposed to decide?"

If you live in France, but you want it quickly and affordably, I'd recommend Combotique.

If you want a high quality American Apparel product printed by ethical standards and made in the USA, I'd recommend Skreened.

If you want a high quality American Apparel tee I'd also recommend RedBubble.

If you want a vintage t-shirt, I'd recommend RedBubble, Skreened, or Zazzle. But watch for the title "Vintage" !!!

All vintage t-shirts can be found at our main site, featuring Cafepress products here.

If you want a brighter, bolder tee that allows us to print our screenprints across the entire front, or bottom of shirt, try our ShirtMagic gallery of shirts.

If you want a high quality tee printed on a larger surface across front of chest, try browsing our Printfection gallery of shirts.

More colors and products can be found at the SpreadShirt gallery of KaptainMyke Brand products.

If you need a 4X or 5X plus sized t-shirt, browse our Zazzle gallery.

We can print on both sides of dark tees at Printfection.

Most light tees drop ship within 24 hours at Zazzle!

Paypal is accepted at Cafepress, Skreened, SpreadShirt and Zazzle

Our primary distributor is Cafepress. However, KaptainMyke seems to favor Skreened and Zazzle.

Remember, we can add any design to any of the galleries online that feature KaptainMyke Brand products.

You may use any valid coupon you see posted at the website during checkout. These coupons will basically pay for your shipping or added costs. Don't forget, we sell buttons, hats, bumper stickers, and regular stickers if you need that extra dollar to use a coupon code!

New Fall & Winter Apparel Featured at KaptainMyke Brand

2009-10-21T12:24:00.005-05:00

It's that time of year again!

KaptainMyke's favorite time - cooler weather.

Yes, I'm sure most of you, like me - hate the hot, humid weather. To celebrate, and get ready for a cold Winter season (hopefully), we have decided to spotlight all sleeved apparel at our Cafepress Store by KaptainMyke Brand. This includes children, guys and ladies apparel. We have lowered prices of most sleeved apparel in stock.

The products being featured are from our primary distributor, Cafepress. We will move any design you see posted over to Combotique (UK & France), MySoti, Printfection, RedBubble, ShirtMagic, Skreened, SonicShack, SpreadShirt, ThatTShirtSite, Wordans, and Zazzle if you would rather purchase from one of those distributors instead.

It's getting cooler now! You should, too.
Browse winter apparel

You may use any valid coupon you see posted at the website during checkout. These coupons will basically pay for your shipping or any added costs. Don't forget, we sell buttons, hats, bumper stickers, and regular stickers if you need that extra dollar to use a coupon code!

Get $5 Off When You Spend $50 or More

2009-09-17T07:28:00.002-05:00

Get $5 Off When You Spend $50 or More

Promotion code good through 11:59 pm 9/21/09

Take $5 Off when you spend $50 or more at KaptainMyke.com or any other CafePress shop!

Use Coupon Code: SUNDRYGOATS

New Coupons for August 2009

2009-08-06T16:48:00.003-05:00

Get $5 off when you spend $50 or more! It's like free shipping practically! Use coupon code "SECONDOPTION" at checkout! http://bit.ly/ykJ20 exp 8/11/09

Get $5 off when you spend $75+ Use coupon code "FCPMAR1" at checkout: http://bit.ly/ykJ20 exp 8/31/09

Get $10 off when you spend $100 + Use coupon code "FCPMAR2" at checkout: http://bit.ly/ykJ20 exp 8/31/09

NEW! KaptainMyke Brand shirts added to RedBubble: http://bit.ly/emuGD

Keep checking regularly on our blog or twitter for new coupons.

just added a 'buttload' of new shirts over at redbubble and spreadshirt. giggity!

Rose Hall Great House Movie Screenplay Released

2009-08-06T07:41:00.010-05:00

All photos taken by KaptainMyke are unaltered and unedited in any way (2005)
In the fall of 2005, my wife and I got married, setting off for a 7 day cruise via Carnival Cruise lines. I decided to get the bright idea to go on the "White Witch of Jamaica" Excursion to which you can visit a real live ghost house. This place is deemed as the "World's Most Haunted Grounds".
Read the screenplay now

Annie Palmer was not what you would call a sweet person, even though she owned a vast sugar plantation in Jamaica.

In the 1700s, a woman's route to wealth and power was usually via marriage, and Annie Palmer was no exception. Born in France, Annie was a petite woman (barely 4 feet tall, it is said) who moved to the beautiful island of Jamaica to be the wife of a powerful man who owned Rose Hall and thousands of acres of sugar plantation. Little is known of her early days at Rose Hall.

Perhaps out of boredom, or sheer wantonness, Annie started taking slaves to her bed. When the Mistress of the House lavished her attentions on a slave, that man's days were numbered. When Annie tired of her lover, she would murder him and have him buried in an unmarked grave. We know little of her first husband, John Palmer, except to say that she murdered him in his bed as well. Perhaps he caught her in the act, or maybe she just tired of him too.

These were difficult times to be a woman, particularly a rich widow in a country frequented by pirates and the like. Annie found another way to remain independent and in control... Voodoo.

Many of the slaves were practitioners of the art, and in order to curry favor and live longer, they taught Annie everything they knew about magic, particularly Voodoo. This was to include human sacrifice, particularly of infants, whose bones she used in practicing the black magic. Soon Annie was known far and wide as "The White Witch of Jamaica". Her reputation for ruthlessness and magic powers served to keep her safe from those who would normally consider her a target. Even so, Annie found time and reason to marry two more husbands, which she eventually dispatched in a similar manner, acquiring their wealth in the process. One has to assume they were foreigners, unacquainted with Annie's reputation on the island.

Annie's Overseer was a slave known to be quite a powerful Voodoo practitioner, a fact he managed to conceal from Annie, at risk to his own life. The Overseer had a daughter who was engaged to marry another handsome young slave on the plantation. Unfortunately, Annie's lustful eye fell upon the young man, and he was soon called upon to pleasure the mistress of the house. The Overseer knew what to expect, and began to make preparations to protect the young man from Annie's "disposable lover" policy.

However, Annie did not follow her usual pattern, and she killed the young man that same night, instead of playing with him for a week or so. Perhaps he objected to her attentions and declared his love for another. Whatever the reason, the young man was dead, the Overseer's daughter grief-stricken, and the Overseer was filled with helpless rage. Annie must die, at all costs.

A special grave was prepared in the woods, within sight of the Great House, using Voodoo ritual and markings. The Overseer then entered the house, confronting the White Witch, and engaged her in magical and physical battle. He succeeded in killing her, sacrificing his own life in the process. Slaves who were privy to the Overseer's plan entombed the body of the White Witch in the specially prepared grave... a grave designed to keep her from rising and walking the plantation again. But they failed to complete the ritual properly, and the White Witch is said to roam the Great House to this day.

CITED: (http://www.scaryplace.com/Jamaica.html)

Now that you have a background story, allow me to share the world our story... Our story is so unique and original that I decided to write about it. Those that have read it have insisted that it be made into a movie, since there is no Rose Hall movie to date. Today I am releasing the entire script that was written over 3 years ago. It is the first print, raw uncut version of our story. While some events seem embellished, most of the story is 90% true.

I hope you enjoy this rather eerie tale...it's part of the reason possibly why I have 8 or 9 lesions all over my brain and spinal cord....or is it?

Read the screenplay now
You have been warned.

BigUps "Doin It" Music Video Sweeps the Nation

2009-08-05T07:46:00.006-05:00

Or, at least it sweeps us at KaptainMyke Brand! We have released the BigUps logo tees just in time for the 8/14/09 release of "The Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard" movie starring Jeremy Piven, and our favorite "The Office" character Ed Helms. Click here for BigUps logo t-shirts and gifts.

View the music video of their hit single "Doin' It" thanks to funnyordie.com

"The hottest unknown boy band to sweep the nation is BigUps. Underapreciated used car salesmen by day, boy band by night. When you are selling the goods you gotta live hard, sell hard, and sing harder!" Get BigUps logo t-shirts and gifts right here at KaptainMyke Brand Tees.

Enjoy!

KaptainMyke Brand Expanding

2009-07-31T13:55:00.005-05:00

In a continued effort to gain back lost income thanks to greed at Cafepress regarding its marketplace changes, KaptainMyke is expanding its brand. We have updated and added new products to the following online distributors:

Cafepress (main distributor)

Comboutique (United Kingdom)

Printfection (offers 4x 5x 6x)

MySoti (bold colors and larger printing across front)

ShirtMagic (offers new colors and larger printing)

Skreened (2nd pick, offers a much larger graphic screenprint t-shirt)

SpreadShirt (great products, great prices)

ThatTShirtSite (great for a value priced, cheaper affordable tee)

Wordans (new products, new colors, expanding soon...)

Zazzle (best alternative to Cafepress, cheaper prices, great selection)

You can find most of the links at our Main Site New t-shirts are added daily to the different websites. Some carry different styles and colors. Some offer different shipping rates and bulk discounts. Many offer a variety of different sizes and plus sized apparel, too. Be sure to check out all our many online galleries before you make a purchasing descision, potential t-shirt shopper. Remember, if you don't see a t-shirt graphic screenprint offered at an online gallery just email us and we'll put it up within hours.

Thanks!

KaptainMyke Undercuts Cafepress

2009-06-22T08:32:00.002-05:00

NEWS FLASH!

All Cafepress tees are now reduced to their lowest price ever at KaptainMyke! All shirts are 20% cheaper here instead of shopping at The Cafepress Marketplace. We are undercutting our primary distributor now. LOOK FOR YOURSELF! Tell all your friends, KaptainMyke is here to SAVE YOU MONEY!

TO ALL THE FANS OUT THERE FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS - A HUGE Thank you for your repeat business! We LOVE YOU GUYS AND GALS! -KAPTAINMYKE

Another blogger responds to Cafepress Marketplace

2009-06-17T07:48:00.002-05:00

For more valuable information, please go to:

http://www.wolfstad.com/2009/04/cafepress-virtually-lays-off-thousands-of-shopkeepers/comment-page-1/

E-Shirt.com wrote:
In light of recent unpopular changes made by CafePress(tm) (1), we would like to extend CafePress Store Owners warm welcome to E-Shirt.com.

At E-Shirt.com, we will continue to let you set the markup price for your designs both in our marketplace, and throughout our retail channels. So, not only are most of our product wholesale prices significantly lower than CafePress(tm)(2), but now you can make significantly more on each and every sale of your design, even in our marketplace.

Compare two identical sales:One-sided White T-Shirt Design price set by store owner at $22.99 in the CafePress(tm) or E-Shirt Marketplaces (3):Your CafePress Profit: $17.99*10% = $1.80Your E-Shirt Profit: $22.99 - $13.95 = $9.04

You don’t have to be a Rocket Scientist to see many people have already moved over to E-Shirt.com

It all adds up to what we call the E-Shirt.com difference. Come and see for yourself.
(1) Refers to announcements made on April 22, 2009 (http://announcements.cafepress.com/?p=167)(2) Tee (cp:$17.99, e-shirt:$13.95), Womens Tee (cp:$17.99, e-shirt:$13.95), Dark Tee (cp:$18.99, e-shirt:$16.95), Womens Tank (CP: $16.99, e-shirt:$13.95), Womens Dark (cp:$19.99, e-shirt:$18.95), Dark Long Sleeve Tee (cp:$23.99, e-shirt:$22.95), Dark Sweatshirt (cp:$29.99, e-shirt:$28.95)(3) Calculated using current CafePress and E-Shirt wholesale prices, and statement made by Cafepress (1).

Thanks

My feedback to Cafepress.com regarding its Marketplace

2009-06-17T07:25:00.005-05:00

This is a quoted post I made on the Cafepress.com message forum inside their site. I copied this in case their moderators or admin deleted it or edited it.

As a top seller, I want others to hear my story. I look at my gross sales, so I know Cafepress must hear my voice. If not, well, I'm ashamed to be sitting in front of this ocmputer from 6am to 5pm M-F week after week like it were a regular job to anyone else....

Anyway, here goes:

I am 29 years old. I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, or MS for short in 2005. I had to quit my very high paid salary job as a network administrator becase of mental trauma and stress.My son was born and we had to move. I couldn't really work, so I NEEDED to find a job working from home. I know there is others out there like me, too. I can't get away from someone who doesn't have a health problem my age nowadays...

I found Cafepress and... yada yada, now I have a headache.

You, Cafepress - have been giving me a SALARY as my own CEO of my OWN company since 2005! Thanks! At $5-7 a shirt...this was a regular job now for my family and myself. I felt blessed!But now, with my MS getting worse and medical bills going up... now apparently I'm losing my job, too? - like 10% of our Nation? I can't already compete against myself as I already do against other shops. You just gave me and the 40 million other shops a 10 or 20% paycut to all of us. I pay for my Adwords campaigns, facebook, etc.. all that now costs me triple! Nevermind our bonus tier structures suddenly dropped for all of us, too. KaptainMyke is very sad.

Thats my feedback.

The incorrect way to become a movie projectionist.

2008-07-11T17:21:00.013-05:00

I bet any computer person in the world has thought about leaving their field.

I know I did, several times as a matter of fact - in my professional career with computers and networking.

So then I thought, "This is it? What comes next?" What do I love? Art, Movies...hmmm. I've always loved movies and American Cinema. Who hasn't had the pipedream of becoming a director or screenwriter? I guess I've always been a creative person - wanting to draw and paint as a child. Then through adulthood I decided to mingle with computers. Low and behold, I was introduced to Photoshop. My creative nature and artistic sense of design has carried forth into the computer age now. Personally I haven't actually painted or drawn anything in years, except for some of the tee shirt screenprints at KaptainMyke.com.

Nobody really gets rich selling tee shirts. Trust me, I know. Even as I watch the big dogs and competitors who are way up there above us at KaptainMyke aren't getting that rich, either. That's just another level! I am a business man, and always have been. In thinking with that simple logic of business and economics, even those guys have bills and expenses. They are just really larger bills and expenses! What about the bottom line profit, at the end of a fiscal legitimate tax year? We've done our homework, and talked to insiders as well. This makes
for proud justification in stating the simple fact nobody gets rich in selling tee shirts. Any luxury item you sell isn't going to sell as great as a major commodity such as gasoline or toilet paper.

With all that stated, I decided, "Hey! When I grow up, I want to be a movie projectionist part time!" Why not? I love movies, and I love cold, cool air conditioning (for health reasons). What better job other than a butcher in a meat freezer would be fun and exciting? I've always wanted to know what it was like in a movie theater projection room. Most people don't know what it's like. I know I didn't. Do you? Maybe even one day I could own a movie theater of my own!

I started combing the movie theaters in the area. My wife and I have the ONLY place in town we go to for movies: The Alama Drafthouse Cinema! We only would go to the Alama Drafthouse off Mason Rd in Katy, or we'd go to the Alamo Drafthouse in West Oaks Mall - Houston. What better place to go work? I LOVE their Alamo Burgers and Rogue Drafts on tap.

Last year alone, for 2007 my wife and I visited the Alamo several times, even seeing some movies twice. I visited the website and applied at both locations that were close to our home. There was an open projectist position on the West Oaks Alamo Drafthouse website! Awesome! I sent in my resume with the subject "Projectionist" as instructed on the website.

2 Weeks Later...

Nothing. So I check the website and the position is gone. All that is left is ticket booth, and food runners. Pfft. I send another email again, this time trying one more time, but with a subject "Ticket Booth Position" in the header.

A response! May 22, 2008

"Thank you for your resume! I would like to set up a time for
you to come in for an interview so that we can talk about the positions that may be available to you at the Alamo. Do you have time to come in this week?

NAME WITHDRAWN, Manager
Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks"

To which I replied: May 22, 2008

"That sounds great! I'd love to be trained on how to use the
projection machines if that were possible. Maybe do something else and get cross trained, I don't know.

I can come in anytime.
-Mike"

24 Hours later: May 23, 2008

"ok, i work tomorrow night as well as Sunday. Can you come in around 5 PM on one of those days? If so, just stop on in and ask for me. You'll need to fill out an application when you get here. Thanks."

I was excited! The wheels are in motion. I am totally about to be a projectionist! On Sunday evening, May 25, 2008 I went in to talk to her. I greeted the manager of the Alamo Drafthouse and we made small talk. She asked me to wait a few minutes, so I did. I waited by the ticket booth for almost an hour.

Finally we talked and I told her I wanted to be a projectionist. She had went and shown my resume to the Projectionist Manager and he thought with my computer experience I would be a great candidate. Usually, you have to have experience in the movie projection room to be a projectionist. Of course, right? Otherwise you just magically obtain zenlike powers and absorb the knowledge of being a projectionist and have experience naturally. Something called "Spontaneous Projectionism". Yeah, I heard about that on Sci-Fi channel!

Seriously, I was excited and the store manager told me to come back on Thursday to speak with the Projectionist Manager. She indicated he'd take me up there to the room where all the projection machines are and show me around. I was jumping out of my skin I was so excited! Things are happening! Awesome!!!

A few days pass...

Long story short? The projectionist manager seemed like he wanted to hire me. He showed me around the entire upper movie projection room. He showed me how to run the film through the machines, the dolby sound equipment, the film cans, the movie posters, the rolling film carts, the platters, spindles, reels, rods, screens, switches, hitches, and everything! Except how to fuse together several pieces of film into one big film. We didn't get to that part. I absorb things pretty
quickly, and what he was showing me seemed so up my alley. He further indicated to me there weren't a whole lot of projectionist on staff, mostly part timers. He'd been doing this for over 6-8 years I think he told me. I went back downstairs with him and we talked to the store manager again. She asked him right away if I had any experience, and he said know, but he thought we could work something out.

The store manager excused me and the two talked a few minutes. She returned and stated I could come back for training in a few days. She handed me an employee workbook and asked if I felt comfortable being a food runner for 2 weeks. I said I didn't really want to, but if that would help me cross train then okay. She told me it was an excellent way for employees to learn the store and the theaters. We exchanged small talk and made our exits. I politely left, very
excited.

I went through 3 days of training...learned the menu, took a few tests. I passed all tests except the menu parts. The store manager graded my tests and told me where I was wrong on some answers, just not marking them wrong. She handed me a menu and said I should look over things one more time. So she walked away and I started blatently filling in the test with the menu. Other employees were behind the bar, eating, watching, smiling. Everyone was nice, cordual with me, etc. I was writing this stuff down with the menus, and nobody cared.

Okay then! I turned it back over to the manager and I passed! Come in Friday 6pm, here's 2 shirts! She handed me two Alamo Drafthouse Cinema tee shirts, size medium. We'll have you be a food runner and try it out! Awesome!

I stuck around afterwards at the bar and orderd my first comped Alamo burger and Rogue chocolate draft. I started watching the employees more carefully. The drink runners were getting small plastic sample cups of drafts passed secretly by the bartender on duty. One or two of them were totally hammered slamming down who knows how many sample drafts. Then, on that particular night, I was introduced to the entire general manager of the store earlier. I noticed her sneaking around and grabbing herself a glass a wine behind the bar! I started
rubbing my eyes and looking at my beer by that point. She casually walks around the bar, and right up front behind the ticket booth with her glass of wine! Customers were paying for their tickets as she set her wine glass down. I found this very intriguing, actually. As I was eating my food, I had been talking to other employees, saying hello and whatnot. One had told me that "You paid for that? Oh, you'll learn around here how to eat on the go for free." etc.

Okay then! I finished my beer and burger, returning home. I already felt this was only the beginning...

The big day came. I had my shirt on, I clocked in with my employee number, I was ready to go! The manager said hello again, and helped me get started with where I'd go and showed me around with a group, as before with some others. When it was over, and I was supposed to start, she practically disappeared before I could ask her about the projectionist manager. She told me, "He's not working tonight, and I've been trying to text him today and yesterday".
I continued on and ran food that night with another employee who had been there for 2 weeks.
He was my trainer. However, I learned later on in the night he'd been in the restuarant business for many years. He'd ran food, he'd been an expo, etc. So it was great having him alongside and helping me learn the ropes. Oh, and by the way? I saw the projectionist manager working that night. He was hanging out talking with the drink runners up front. I didn't even stop to talk or ask him anything. I tried smiling earlier to gain acknowledgement or recognition...but nothing. Just a blank smile as I was no one. I continued and followed my trainer.

The kitchen was crazy! I never been in a restaurant environment in my life! You're looking at a 100% pale, indoors computer guy, 10 years. You kidding me? I couldn't take the 200 degree heat, the yelling, the spitifre of an expo, everything sucked for me. Under no fault of anybody else's but my own, trust me, I know. I wasn't used to it, that's all. The expo was a short, red haired little spitfire is all I can say. She did her job, and she did it well, but don't step in her way. I don't have anything bad to say about any of these employees doing their hardearned jobs, that's for sure. Hats off to all of you busting your ass like that - because I...can't...do...it! Haha. Plain and simple, that line of work is only for certain people. Whew! As I ran food the first showing was of LOST on ABC. LOST fans get together and watch it up at the Alamo. Okay. Well guess who I saw in the crowd? My manager, the lady who gave me empty promises and dreams. I wanted to say something, but I was working and so taken by this I just didn't bother at this point in the game at only 7-8pm in the evening on my first official day.

8 Hours Later...

I got home that night at 3am, because we live an hour away, and of course it was the "Sex and the City" movie premiere that night...at midnight. SO from midnight to 2am I had to deal with slightly buzzed and hungry women all night. Lordy! Of course I wanted to quit by 9pm and counted every minute as it passed by. I didn't get to eat until 9pm!

Which reminds me...I learned how you eat on the run for free at the Alamo as a food runner employee. You take it off the food rack where the warming lights are. There was an entire row of uneaten, double ordered food. Look at all this wasted food! If the corporate types in Austin knew of this stuff going on around here...man! Whew! Again, as a businessman, I saw money wasted. Also, I was bringing back dirty plates from the theater and immediately picking up someone's new order and running it back out to them. Their motto as a food runner is , "Do not return empty handed to the kitchen" Made sense. But when your being rushed by others to be un-named you can't just stop everytime to wash your hands, right? Nobody else was, how could I? All night I washed my hands three times. When I got there, and when I used the restroom mid shift, and when I got home. Nevermind the salsa, nacho cheese, beer, wine, popcorn butter and God knows what else that I was wiping on my shirt or a nearby rag. When closing time came,
last call, cleaning the kitchen was a little absurd to me as well. I was using rags I didn't know where they came from, using tubs of what I thought was soap, etc. Only once somebody told me where to go get more rags. After that I felt more comfortable sloshing around the same food particles in a circular motion.

What was deemed as the worst experience in my entire life I will never forget ever.

I called the manager the next day and I told her honestly I didn't think food running was for me. The kitchen being too hot, the constant fast paced environment, etc. She said she was still having a hard time texting the projectionist manager. She said she'd call me.

I already knew where this was going. 3 Days later...same results. So, if you can't text or reach an employee, isn't that insubordination of your superior? Interesting. I'm way smarter than that, lady.

Anyways, I estimated after 3 days of 2 hour training at minimum wage ($4.35) = $26.10. She said as a food runner I was at $9.50/hr. So add that night of hell for me 8hrs @ $9.50/hr you get = $76 approximately. Add $76 and $26 and my paycheck before taxes should be around $102 gross. After taxes it'd probably be an $80 check.

2 Weeks pass. Where's my check?

I sent her an email. She asked if I wanted the check mailed or if I wanted to come up there. My truck is horrible on gas mileage. We live an hour away. This $80 check is a gas tank! So I replied by email to just mail it to me. She responded and said okay.

I get a phone call from her, the store manager. She said she can't fit any hours in for me as a projectionist. Some partimers decided to go full time. Yeah, right.... I asked her about the 2 Alamo Shirts. She said "Hold onto 'em", exactly. Okay.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:40 PM, I wrote:
Still no check.
Thanks
-Mike

4 days later...
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:06 PM, I wrote again:
Still, no check.

-Mike.

Good thing I'm not pushy! Most people when it involves money would be PISSED by now, right? I know I felt that way but wanted to be polite and professional.

3 Days Later....

This is the 4th and last time I'm going to ask you for my check in a 2 week period. I will have to start asking other higher management types through the company after today, FIRSTNAME WITHDRAWN.

-Mike

1 Day later...

Please mail me my paycheck! -Mike

June 25th, 2008:

Hello Mike,
Yesterday was the first time I heard of your paycheck issue. I will be contacting our corporate accountant to get your check to you ASAP. I understand your urgency to get your check and I will do everything I can to expedite the process. I will send you an email to let you know when it gets in the mail.
NAME WITHDRAWN
General Manager
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
1000 West Oaks Mall #429
Houston, TX 77082

Finally! Jesus. First time huh? Nice communication skills there. This is the same main general manager that was sipping the wine glass, no less. Finally replying, huh? Well thank you very much.

The assistant manager below her, the one that originally promised me all these hopes and dreams? Remember her? She replies finally now, after 3-4 weeks....

I did not realize that you had not received your check as of yet. When I came in on Tuesday, it was no longer in the piles we keep in the safe and I assumed it had been received. I have been out of the office and had not checked my e-mails, so the message you sent yesterday was the next time I had heard from you. After speaking with our (General Manager), I am sending an e-mail to our corporate accountant and she will be able to reissue a check to you. I will be happy to copy you on the e-mail, or if you prefer you can contact her yourself. Let me know what you want to do.

I replied to her:

I will wait for you to talk to the accountant again.

Thanks,
-Mike

Yeah, I better not hold my breath, huh?

JULY 7, 2008: TWO WEEKS LATER FROM EVEN THAT:

I realize this took way longer than it should have, but I put your
check

in the mail today. Sorry for the inconvenience.
NAME WITHDRAWN

General Manager

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

1000 West Oaks Mall #429

Houston, TX 77082

Are you kidding me? Whatever....

So finally, the big day comes! In a handwritten envelope, I got my Alamo Drafthouse Check finally!

No FICA, No SSN, nothing. A corporate check in the amount of: $41.33. says in the memo field, "5/29 Pay". That's slavery!

I bet what they think they did is make me pay for those 2 shirts. You are given 2 shirts during training. Any other subsequent shirts you have to pay for. By law, you have to pay me what I'm entitled to, right? Gas, time, etc. I could have been on other job interviews or masterbating or something! What a waste of time!

So now, my wife and I will never, EVER eat or step foot in an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema ever again. Why would you want to?

I wonder if the general manager and the store manager remember me as much as I will always remember them?

-Mike "KaptainMyke" Sorensen.

Eating our shirts give you GA$

2008-07-07T16:44:00.012-05:00

With gas prices continuing to soar across the country, we decided to spotlight our totally sweet and 145 mpg "W. Bush Gas Co." tee shirt design.

Don't be stuck on the side of some one way, dead end country road holding your empty $30 dollar three gallon gas station plastic container while wearing your W Bush Gas Co. tee shirt. Suddenly, you realize, "Hey wait. There's no gas station that way. This is just for the shirt photo!". Oh, yeah, sorry folks. No, seriously, pretty soon we're going to have to start riding our go karts to the store, since we can't afford the $95 gas tank in our truck.

Good thing we have our Death Proof bumper sticker on our go kart to keep us safe while screaming down the road at a whopping 32 mph at 95 mpg on a major US interstate. Sounds way cooler when you put it that way, no? Yeah, we thought so, too. Pedalling is for suckers. The only downside to that is us go karters gotta keep rebuilding our carburetors since "the man" keeps putting ethanol and coffeemate in our gasoline. Better load up on fuel stabilizers, too, pa! I've had longer relationships with milk gallons in the refridgerator than a 5 gallon tank of gas sitting in our toolshed. We should sell our green gas as "leprechaun beer" during St. Patty's Day. Nobody would notice, right?

Solar power is taking off, perhaps that route could help with some of these issues. A solar powered car or house is in the near future. We hear all the time that you can "go green" and sell your electricity back to the power/electric companies. Whether this is true or not still remains. But hey, we heard it on "Days of Our Lives". So it must be true! Speaking of which, check out our Days of Our Lives line of tee shirts and gifts!

You have how many tee shirts?!

2008-07-07T16:20:00.005-05:00

Who knew that if your primary business is selling tee shirts, we'll, you're going to have a lot of tee shirts laying around the closet. And drawers. And storage. And the attic. The numbers have fluctuated due to stains, rip, tears, and other casualties of war. To date, KaptainMyke has 145 tee shirts in the closet, (mostly sorted by color) 23 older discontinued tee shirts in the drawer, and over 30 oil stained "play shirts", as we colorfully like to call them. The biggest victim caught in this web of tee shirts is Mrs. KaptainMyke. And Tide. (with febreeze). The only excuse we come up with is that we need to advertise our shirts everywhere we go, right?

Hey, prior to the tee shirt world, we were only sporting cheap and loud Hawaiian shirts. That's a step up if you ask some of us around here! Sounds like we have a "What Not To Wear" Candidate!

The biggest little movie mistake in the world.

2008-07-02T16:07:00.000-05:00

The folks here around KaptainMyke have been fans of Reno 911! since day one. We have followed them from season 1 through the ill fated theatrical release of Reno 911! - Miami. The stars/writers of the show are great at doing quick cut scene jokes. They pull it off so well on the show between commercials. That's where the show makes a great show. Just that, though, not a movie. Without the power of tv commercials, the gang doesn't have a leg to stand on between jokes. When watching the movie, we entered just KNOWING this movie was going to be great. If you watch the movie trailer you can't help but laugh. I remember on my way to the theater stating how much this movie could not possibly suck. Low and behold, sometimes the movie trailer proves better than the movie itself. They already showed us the funniest parts in the trailer! Now what do we do? We can't fill 2 hours and follow that! Let's do a huge masterbating scene instead. No! Say it isn't so, Reno!

Now that we've somehow made it past the movie, the show continues on for 2008 with new episodes. Thank God! Keep it on the small screen, guys! We still love you and your new episodes. Let's stay that way, okay?

Don't forget to check out our entire line of Reno 911 TV show inspired tees and gifts from KaptainMyke.com. More fanshirts made by the fans for the fans, of the great inspirations from whence they came:

Obscure Movie Reference on a T-Shirt Moment: Darnell's Auto Wrecking

2008-07-02T15:56:00.000-05:00

We like to periodically pay homage to great moments in film and tv history. Fast cars, killer women, and of course blood & guts make these moments great to all of us. Instead of fast cars and killer women, flip it and you have fast women and killer cars! When I think of killer cars, there's really only a handful of movies that first pop into KaptainMyke's mind. This obscure movie reference comes from the Stephen King cult classic, Christine. Darnell's is the garage where Arnie Cunningham restored his murderous 1958 Plymouth Belvadere (Fury) car named 'Christine'. Get your Darnell's Auto Wrecking and Do It Yourself Garage tee shirts and gifts at KaptainMyke.com. No stealing, no smoking, no exceptions. But sir, those men over there are smoking. How come they don't read the sign?

Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies is made of what?

2008-07-02T15:34:00.000-05:00

When I found out what Sweeney Todd was really about, I must admit I was quite shocked. A musical? With Johnny Depp? Sounds like a train wreck you can't look away from, right? But then as I watched the movie I realized what was really going on. Furthermore, did you know that it may or may not be true that the story is based on a real life person?

From WikiPedia: Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as one of the protagonists of a Penny Dreadful serial entitled The String of Pearls (1846-1847). In the most common versions of the story, he is an English barber who murders his customers with a cut-throat razor (or "straight razor" in American English), and turns their remains into meat pies. His establishment is situated in the historical Fleet Street of London. The tale surrounding the character became a staple of Victorian melodrama and a Tony award-winning Broadway musical in 1979. Sweeney Todd has also been featured in several films, the most recent being Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), directed by Tim Burton, with Johnny Depp in the title role. Claims that Sweeney Todd was a real person are unsubstantiated and unproven, although there are possible legendary prototypes, partaking of an urban myth.

Sounds like a great shirt idea to us, right? Original graphic screenprint across front of chest that reads, "Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies - Fleet Street, London". Fabulous, famous finger lickin' good pies! Buy this design on over 50 different tee shirt styles & colors.

Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati

2008-07-02T15:11:00.001-05:00

I never really got to watch WKRP when I was a kid. I was kinda like, uh never born yet. But, now almost 30 years later - My wife and I recorded some on the DishNetwork DVR. I had never seen it before! To me, Johnny Fever was that teacher dude from that "Head of the Class" television series. All serious, and somewhat dry, this man was not a funny stoner DJ in my eyes! Who was this comical, masterful genius that I had never seen before? BOOGER!

And so the birth of a new tee shirt was created after seeing only 3 episodes. I was hooked! Original graphic screenprint across front of chest that reads, "Johnny Fever, WKRP". Metal Lord style font lettering featuring stethoscope and electrofying thermometers. Listen to DJ Doctor Dr. Fever in the Mornings with Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati. A vintage version is also available, featuring a worn and tattered look to it, just like Johnny Fever himself.

You have to pick this DVD collection up if you haven't seen this before. As I watched this series, I can't help but think of News Radio, WNYX. They had to received some sort of inspiration from these guys to make such a great show. Speaking of which, check out the WNYX News Radio Collection of tee shirts and mugs at KaptainMyke.com.

K Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's 108.1 FM

2008-07-02T13:03:00.001-05:00

K Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's 108.1 FM is actually an old design KaptainMyke.com came up with last year (April 4, 2007 to be exact). We decided to bring the design back from the vault and dust it off. If you remember, Stephen Wright was the voice of the DJ in the movie Reservoir Dogs. We here at KaptainMyke.com are HUGE Quentin Tarantino fans and decided to add this design back into our Tarantino Collection.

Also, check out CultClassicT's awesome rendition of the same design here: KBILLY Home of Rock .

Everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?

2008-07-02T12:26:00.001-05:00

We figured since blogging is the "in" thing now, why shouldn't we start one? The purpose would be to inform people of our latest, newest, hottest, ripest, crunkest, most bodaciously, outrageousely, awesomest designs at KaptainMyke.com.

We'll try and keep up with this thing, but no promises, okay?

KaptainMyke.com joins Tuesday Teez!

2008-07-02T12:12:00.000-05:00

KaptainMyke is proud to announce it's teaming up with the latest website appropriately named, "Tuesday Teez" (http://www.tuesdayteez.com/). Tuesday Teez is brought to us by the creators of Detour Designbles. (Detour Designables).

From the website:

Join us every Tuesday as we spotlight some of the most creative t-shirt designs on the web today. Take your time and look around…you never know what you’ll find, so be sure to come back each week as we add new stuff to the pile.

The current participating shops at Cafepress are:
Detour Designables
Geeky Teez
Be Green Teez
Thread Yourself!
Burn Tees
Flippin’ Sweet Gear
KA Designs
LekkerShops
Poptastic
Shirtees.net
KaptainMyke Hey! That's US! Cool, huh?
brev87
Steam Crow Press
KippyGo Designs

These shops are some of the most respected and most dedicated shop owners at Cafepress.com. We are proud to be a part of this combined effort and wish the very best to all these great shops.

Keep up the great work, guys!

-KaptainMyke

Welcome to our Blog!

2008-07-01T14:35:00.001-05:00

Test. First Post. Exciting.