We normally reserve our best deals for our email list subscribers (you can register directly from our homepage), but when it comes to doing nice things we like everyone to get involved.
So here’s the deal. Between now and Sunday, May 18th at 11:59:59pm:
The Elephant 3
Spend $30 or more, and we’ll give The Elephant Sanctuary an additional $3 above and beyond our normal per-sale donation. Then, we’ll give you a $5 store credit that you can use anytime, with no expiration date, on your next purchase of $20 more.
Use code “elephant3” at checkout to qualify.
The Elephant 5
Spend $50 or more, and we’ll give The Elephant Sanctuary an additional $5 above and beyond our normal per-sale donation. Then, we’ll give you a whopping $15 store credit that you can use anytime, with no expiration date, on your next purchase of $20 more. Oh, and if that wasn’t enough. . . we’ll pay for your priority mail shipping (within the US).
Use code “elephant5” at checkout to qualify.
We’ll send your store credit within 24 hours of your purchase, via email.
Do great things!
If I could hand deliver every shirt and thank you in person I would. Since I can’t, I’m pleased to introduce free shipping to the continental United States for all orders of $50 or more.
As always, all domestic orders ship via USPS priority mail.
While I’m writing, all sizes of Yay Serotonin are back in stock, and both new tote bags (the ClothMoth Logo tote and the Dangly Brown Sack) are now shipping. Totes are 2 for $20 for a limited time.
We really need to build out a page on our site that explains the ”+ Kindness” aspect of our company name. People always ask me where the name came from, what it means, etc.
ClothMoth. . . well, mostly it just rhymes (I have a dog named Frog as well for the same reason). It also makes a really cool logo. But the ”+ Kindness” part has a much more significant meaning. A year or so ago, I decided that I wanted to strive to do SOMETHING nice for somebody, every day of my life. Even if it is as simple as paying a compliment to someone, I recognized that I would get so caught up in the seriousness of life that I would sometimes forget the simple pleasureness of BEING NICE.
So when I started the company, I decided that in some form or fashion EVERY T-SHIRT SOLD would contribute to doing something nice, for someone, something, or some place. For the last half of 2007 and all of 2008, a portion of every sale is being donated to The Elephant Sanctuary (http://www.elephants.com), an incredible non-profit refuge for Asian and African Elephants that spent the majority of their lives in captivity. Located in Tennessee, the sanctuary has a large tract of acreage where nearly 20 elephants roam free in their natural habitat. Truly incredible work, and we are super excited about supporting them.
You should be too. You make it happen!
I’m not one for violence, but here’s the deal. If you have to throw a punch, you damn well better precursor it with a battle cry of some sort. I plan to yell “Truth is justice!”.
The way I see it, a good but slightly ambiguous rally cry like TIJ (for short) is the only thing that can make a fighter (usually perceived as a hooligan) become a hero. You don’t even have to have a cause. You don’t even have to be in the right.
A guy at my office last week got pissed at his boss for getting fired, and started whaling on the poor guy. Beating the s@!t out of him, I’m told. No rally cry, either. Guess where he is now? Jail.
If I could have caught him before he started scrapping with his boss, I would have loaned him Truth is Justice. He could have screamed it out, which would have:
A.) Made all of his coworkers believe he is fighting for the common good of all the little guys out there
B.) Had a stun-gun-like effect on his opponent. “Truth is Justice” (or equivalent) really baffles the mind, when screamed in an office setting. You can’t process it quickly.
I do NOT recommend “God is great” or any sort of high pitched chanting for your rally cry. Bad idea. Those lead to Gitmo.
ClothMoth was looking a bit tired and tattered with our hand-me-down site design. Lucky for us, the spectacular Ryan Foster heard us screaming for help and dropped everything he was doing to rescue us. He’s our knight in shining armour!
In all seriousness, we are super pleased with our new digs, and are super grateful for his ability to do something that is actually cool with the pooplets of ideas we flung over the fence at him.
Ryan’s done a ton of great stuff, including the design work for ladybugspicnic.net, who sell some of the cooler kids clothes we’ve seen outside of our own shop :-)
Hope you enjoy the new look as much as we do, and feel free to send comments to us through the contact page.
When not working the day job or designing t-shirts, I like write out formal guidelines for how to live life without appearing to be criminally insane, mentally deficient, or creepy. Mostly, I write them with hopes of influencing the world to abandon everything I consider offensive to my senses. A second motivator is that my friends and I get huge laughs out of coming up with some of this ridiculous stuff.
Men’s jewelry is a hot topic right now. I’ve seen a handful of guys around the office with some ridiculous gold chains and bracelets. Here’s the law on men’s jewelry, according to ClothMoth (that’s me).
Man jewelry
Note: Players, Ballers, Gigolos, and R&B Stars are granted lifetime immunity from all man jewelry laws herein, assuming they meet the following conditions:
1.) Own one or more Bentley’s, Rolls Royce’s, or combinations of both.
2.) Must refer to diamonds as ice, no exceptions.
3.) Must never attempt to shed the man jewelry. Once immunity is granted, man-jewelers are in it for life
Here’s a simple litmus test for men’s earrings. This MUST be judged by an objective third party; no man is authorized to be the officiator of his own man jewelry purchases.
Shake your gently head from side to side, as if saying “no”.
If the objective third party tracks any movement of your earrings (jiggling, swinging, rocking, etc.) they are inappropriate and must be discarded or melted into scrap immediately. Visible motion of man jewelry is punishable by complete and total shunning until violating articles are destroyed.
Man-rings
So many rules, so little time.
List of banned materials and styles:
Gold described as “nugget” is strictly forbidden.
Rings designed to fit over multiple fingers are reserved for street fighting, and must be removed immediately upon conclusion of hand to hand combat in an urban setting.
Regarding precious or semi precious stones:
Only one man-ring per person may be decorated with stones of any type, real or synthetic. Total stone weight for the entire piece of jewelry may not exceed 1 carat, which may be subdivided into no more than 3 stones. Please be respectful of the glare cast by your jewelry; no more than one type of stone per ring.
Quotas must be adhered to, no exceptions:
One man-ring per hand, two per person maximum. This is a generous, over-indulgent quota and may not be relaxed.
If a genetic mutation has given you additional appendages or phalanges, these bonus parts must remain unadorned.
Owning a variety of man-rings
It is not uncommon for women to own chests full of jewelry, which they rotate out to coincide with the outfit of the day. This is often referred to as accessorizing. Men who elect to exercise their man-ring rights should under no circumstance rotate out jewelry with any discernable frequency.
Acceptable fingers
While wearing a man-ring on the index or middle fingers is unusual and eccentric, it is not unquestionable. Both the thumb and pinky are off-limits for adorning jewelry of any type.
