So Bored with Cast of 50 Shades of Grey! Break out the Whips!

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We were so ready for some incredible cast for 50 Shades of Grey, but now we’re just…yawn!

Don’t get us wrong, we love Dakota Johnson and of course, we’re huge fans of Charlie Hunnam,yum, but we were hoping for someone who would really make our blood boil! We’re not even going to conjure up suggestions because the discussion of who would be the best cast has literally been to death, but we would like to know what you think?

Did they get the cast right? Let us know in the comments below and if you don’t agreethen tell us who you think should have been the best paired match!

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Kitson Encourages Drug Using Culture with Prescription Drug Jerseys…Should They Make Overdose Jerseys?

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In a response to possible legal problems regarding their jerseys with the prescription drug names Adderall, Xanax and Vicodin, designer Brian Lichtenberg issues a statement of the tees which are sold at Kitson: I have created a collection of t-shirts that are a parody of pop culture.  This particular collection of prescription tee’s is simply a commentary on what I see happening in our society.  Call it what you may, but art in all forms is created off of pop culture and the social situations which surround it.  A large percentage of Americans are prescribed these drugs everyday for legitimate reasons.  These are not illegal substances.  These tees are not meant to encourage prescription drug abuse.  But if they open the door to a much needed dialogue, as they seem to be doing now, then mission accomplished. 

Dialogue?  How’s this about some dialogue.  In a world where prescription drug abuse is horrifyingly real among adults and teens(see statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse HERE), maybe we should focus more on positively changing the culture of our pop society instead of making excuses for these tees.  Having worked around drug addicts for years, we know many, many young people who would love to wear these tees as a symbol of their risk taking lives.

Maybe make a follow-up tee that states OVERDOSE.  Too harsh…so are these tees.  While we love Kitson and their designs, we believe these tees are in extremely bad taste.  Instead of endorsing or making artistic commentary on the sadness in our society, we as writers, artists and designers should use our positivity to encourage change among our youth.

Oh…and nowhere on the site do we see tee shirts encompassing the largest group of prescription drugs in our culture…vaccines, antibiotics and non-habit forming antidepressants, as stated by The Huffington Post.

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How to Increase Alexa Rank Quickly in 4 Easy Steps and What Does Alexa Traffic Rank Mean?

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First of all, it’s very important for our readers to understand one thing…this is NOT the type of article we normally write, but we wanted to pass on some useful knowledge we’ve learned because we’re tired of reading all of these crap articles people put up just to make money.  If you look at our website, we are a men’s lifestyle magazine including celebrity interviews, music reviews and style posts! We aren’t a technology site.  But we’ve figured out some things that work and we want you to get honest advice, not misleading copied and pasted advice.  And we’re not going to lie…it does take some work, but we’re going to make it simple!

Let’s be honest…we all want the best possibly Alexa rank and the most post views on our website.  This could be for several reasons.  Maybe we’re trying to sell advertisements or click ads and finally make some money off of all of our hard work.  Or maybe we’re trying to build our website resume and want others to take us seriously.  Or maybe we’re just passionate about what we’re doing and we want lots and lots of people to read our content on our website.  How does that happen??? Well…the higher the Alexa rank, supposedly, the higher the Google rank, which means your posts go higher to the top of Google and then…voila…more views!

For more info on Google’s ranking system, see this great article Google’s 200 Ranking Factors” HERE!

So what is Alexa Traffic Rank??? Well, simply put it in Alexa’s words, it’s “The global traffic rank is a measure of how a website is doing relative to all other sites on the web over the past 3 months. The rank is calculated using a combination of the estimated average daily unique visitors to the site and the estimated number of pageviews on the site over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of unique visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.”

You should probably go to Alexa NOW and read up a little bit on it…go ahead, we’ll be here. Their information is short and it will make the rest less painful! Click HERE to go to Alexa!

Back so soon? Ok…now let’s get on with these few, simple tools take give you the best Alexa ranking possible.

1. Be honest with yourself about your website! You are not Google.  You aren’t Facebook, Twitter or even Linkedin.  But let’s see how some of these websites rank.  Google: 1, Facebook: 2, Twitter: 11, Linkedin: 13.  Ok, ok.  Let’s look at some ones that are more realistic.  Perez Hilton: 1112.  But remember…he’s been around for a long time, a factor that plays into your score, he posts regularly and gets a lot of views.  How about The Superficial? 4446 or Apple? 54! All of these are big players.  Realistically, if you can get under the 200,000 rank, you’ve got a good start.  Once you get there, it’s really about the content.  Figure out what you want your score to be and be realistic.  You are NOT Apple.com!

2. Install the Alexa Tool Bar!  We can’t begin to tell you how vital this is.  It will not mess up your computer and it makes browsing the web interesting because you can now see the Alexa rank of every website you visit! This is literally how easy it is: Go to Alexa.com and hit the tab at the top for Toolbar.  Follow instructions.  We are not technological giants and we figured it out! We’re not proof positive, but we really believe this helped us alot!

Click HERE to install the Alexa Toolbar!

3. Visit and Comment on Other Blogs and Websites! We cannot stress the importance of commenting on other blogs! It makes you appear friendly to other bloggers, you’ll meet new people, get new ideas(and often get pissed that they posted your idea first!)and realize that your voice is important.  Oh…and it will drive traffic back to your blog or website especially if you include your web address and link it back!

4. Write Good Content! If you don’t write stuff anyone wants to read, no one is going to come to your website anyway.  You have to write current content that is interesting.  Even if you’re writing a one page website about 5 crunch exercises to build better abs make it fun and interesting.  Didn’t we just take some extremely boring information and write it in our own voice? We wanted people to read it and relate because if it doesn’t, they won’t remember the important stuff.

So that’s it! If you’re still confused, Go to Alexa.com(the traffic ranking site we’ve just been talking about forever!), read up a little bit on the website, then come back and read this article.  Actually, come back several times a day and recommend our site to all of your friends.  We should have made that Step 5…Never be afraid to whore your website out for good return!

Anyway…we hope you enjoyed the article.  If you did and you’d like us to write more technological “stuff”, which we’re very versed in now…in layman’s terms, let us know below or email us at info@raannt.com

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Maroon 5’s Adam Levine is Engaged? To Who???

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Yes ladies and gents, it’s true.  Adam Levine is engaged! Earlier this week, Levine’s rep told People magazine that the Adam Levine and Victoria Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo, who had dated previously, had reunited and were planning to marry.

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While we’re excited for both and want to throw out a huge congrats to the gorgeous couple we’re also saddened that both will be off the market! But…marriages, and especially happy marriages, are a luxury, so we wish Adam and Behati all the best and can’t wait to see them produce some gorgeous children!

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Intern Loses Job Over Racially Offensive Korean Pilot Names While CBS Keeps Big Brother Bigots!

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Is it 1950?  Did we miss something? News all over the internet about abortion reform and immigration reform all while television stations seem to be taking racism into their own hands.  Last week, Big Brother aired racially offensive and homophobic remarks made by house guest’s Aaryn, GinaMarie and Spencer.  Outside of the house, these house guests lives are already being affected by their comments, yet CBS has taken no stand to evict these “guests”.  Maybe we need to redefine the word “house guest” Even Julie Chen, host of Big Brother, made a statement that she had been offended by these comments.

At the same time, Oakland TV station KTVU released racially offensive names of the Korean pilots involved in the Asiana plane crash last week, which had been confirmed by an intern.  If you haven’t seen this, check it out below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm5JGX2or-s

Fortunately, the intern been removed but the Korean airline Asiana is still suing over the remarks…and rightfully so.

And we definitely won’t comment on our feelings of Zimmerman’s innocent verdict…needless to say, all of this makes us very, very sad.

Maybe Big Brother should take this as a sign, evict Aaryn, GinaMarie and Spencer and replace them with new players.  It might not be popular…but it would be the right thing to do.  And that’s a luxury we have these days.

Hate is not a classy or beautiful accessory!  

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Indiana’s UNSEXIEST Man: Representative Eric Turner…Author of the Bill Banning Same-Sex Marriage

As states across the country are legalizing same-sex marriage, Indiana is quite possibly becoming the least intellectual and loving state as they move towards a constitutional amendment which would ban same-sex marriage permanently defining marriage as being between a man and a woman.  At the forefront of this ban…Indiana Republican Representative Eric Turner, who authored the bill.   A recent Indiana poll found that 48% of voters were in favor of this ban while 45% were opposed.

The Advocate, in a recent article, stated “Rep. Eric Turner, author of the amendment, recently told Indiana radio station WIBC that he’s not sure when he’ll resubmit the amendment, but he believes it will pass, and that when it goes before voters, they will approve it. Maine, Maryland, and Washington State, which approved marriage equality on Election Day, and Minnesota, which rejected an anti-equality amendment, are more liberal than Indiana, he said.

In an effort to help people actually familiarize themselves with the faces behind the names, we will be posting pictures weekly of those behind the efforts to make Indiana one of the most backward states in the country.

In case you just associate Mr. Turner with anti-gay rights, let’s not forget he’s also leading the campaign to make Indiana one of the most restrictive states for abortion as well, literally taking away women’s rights claiming that new amendments would allow women to lie about incest or being raped in order to obtain abortions.

What…a gentleman.  We should be soooooo proud to have him represented our state!

Stay tuned weekly as we list those individuals in support of this bill on our UN-SEXY List.

But let’s not make this personal, right? Except…it’s very personal!

If you’d like to show your support for same-sex marriage in Indiana or Ban Eric Turner…check out our tees in our shop HERE! 20% of all proceeds will go towards same-sex support in Indiana!

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THE #SocialMedia List: The Best Tumblr Blogs of the Week!

 

We are so completely over Facebook right now! Between the election and the second coming of Christ, everyone has left paragraphs about their political and religious beliefs on the walls of Facebook.  Friends have been lost, no one’s poking anymore and we might even get a dislike button.  We’re not too worried.  For the last year, we’ve been completely obsessing over Twitter and Tumblr anyway as our social media outlets du jour, especially Tumblr, where would could spend hours and hours, drinking Starbucks and reblogging pictures of tattoos, beards, style icons and cultural references.  Yep…Twitter and Tumblr are where it’s at these days…(watch out as the moms start getting Tumblr accounts called “SUVSuicide-ation”.  Dark, brooding, mom blogs!)

This week we’ve pick two of our all time favorite Tumblr blogs.  Both, for different reasons, have made a huge impact on Tumblr and are influentially culturally, one maybe without even knowing it.

Tetino-tete is hands down one of the most amazing, men’s fashion blogs of all time…and you thought we were good with our daily style reviews and picks! The symmetry between the images and the consistency of always being true to classically good style while keeping up with ever changing trends put Tetino-tete way above the rest.  It is always at the top of men’s style blogs and is, for us, a reference point for inspiration! We love this blog!

Trust us on this one.  Just follower her.  She is amazing.  While some will be turned off by the title, Daddy Fucked Me is one of the most amazingly creative blogs on Tumblr.  Run by Jillian, her mix of Lolita inspired, black and white pictures mixed with frightening images, pictures never seen anywhere else on Tumblr and always original.  We’ve followed her on our own personal blogs for some time and have never been disappointed.  She’s edgy, unapologetic and dynamic.  Even in her ASK box message, she makes no excuses.  She’s answer her questions when she wants to and lately she hasn’t really been feeling like answering a lot of questions.  If, as so many celebrities tell us in their interviews, that sexiness is equal to confidence, watch out…because Jillian might just be the sexiest of them all.  An no…she doesn’t have sex with her dad…but she does have a protective boyfriend so beware! We love this blog so much and sit drooling over the images she puts together!

Every Friday we’ll be posting our picks for some element of social media, so make sure you follow us and Tweet us so we know to look at you!

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Honey Badger Don’t Care! Funniest Video of the Day!

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While most people have already seen this 2 year old video, we still run into a few people who have never even heard of it! For that reason, we had to include The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger(original narrationt by Randall) into our list of Funniest Videos! If you haven’t seen it, check it out below.  We’ve also include OUR video response, discussing the Human Honey Badger! Hope you enjoy!

 

Jon Lajoie says “Jesus Was Gay” on Marriage Equality: Funniest Video of the Day!

We absolutely love Jon Lajoie! If you haven’t seen his parody videos…you have to check them out.  Our favorite is the parody of the Monsanto commercial, but we also love his dating service commercial parody.  His newest video is about marriage equality…another parody that is just as hilarious. We’ve included all three…hope you enjoy!

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