SEO This: The Lazy Man's Guide to Page Views

Categories: Tech, iSociety

Have you ever found yourself wondering, "Why doesn't anybody go to my website?"

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Local SEO Ninjas Tony Adam, Jeff Henderson, and Sean Percival get their search optimization on.

Perhaps it's because there is nothing on there worth seeing. After all, if there was something really cool on your site then people would have already found it, right?

[Awkward silence]

But all hope is not lost. There are some tried and true tricks you can do to enlarge your e-peen, and pimp your Web presence.

Search on Google for what you think your site is about (ponies, for example). Can you find yourself? No? Then you've got some work to do.


First ask yourself, is your content worth anything?

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Stage Raw: Groundlings Enchanted Forest

Categories: Stage Raw
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The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Elephant Man at Andak Stage Company


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Groundlings Enchanted Forest is one of 11 plays being reviewed this week. Photo courtesy of The Groundlings

Check back here on Monday afternoon for the latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes at the Pasadena Playhouse; Cymbeline at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum; Cole Porter's Red Hot and Blue! at The Whitefire Theatre in North Hollywood; Chris Covics' makover of Macbeth, here called The Sticking Place at The Unknown Theatre; A Grand Guignol Cabaret at the Gardner Stages in Hollywood; Michael Patrick Spillers Always and Forever at Casa 0101 in East L.A.; Hugh Whitemore's Breaking the Code at the Chandler Studio Theatre; Joe DiPietro's Over the River and Through the Woods at the Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre; Lope de Vega's Madness in Valencia presented by Sacred Fools Theatre Company; and NeedTheater's production of Philip Ridley's Mercury Fur, at the Imagined Life Theater.

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Proposition 8: Fuck That! Mito Aviles and ChadMichael Morrisette's Subtle West Hollywood Rooftop Installation

Categories: Art

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What do you say to Prop. 8?

Mito Aviles and ChadMichael Morrisette, the two West Hollywood designers who hung Sarah Palin in effigy on their roof, have another installation up in protest of the California Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold Proposition 8, which bans gays from getting married. The installation is once again on the roof of their home. A male mannequin (tight jeans, tight tee, arms akimbo) wears an anti-Prop. 8 shirt that reads "Legalize Gay!" He "screams at the top of his lungs," the designers explain. Or would, if mannequins could scream.

Plastic forms can't scream, but people--outraged members and supporters of the LGBT community in particular--can. "The state of California, in short, has categorized us as second class citizens," says Aviles. "This is an outrage...we are the last minority group to still have our rights be subject for discussion. When will our full rights be given to us? When are we going to stop being the black sheep of California's constitution? In light of [the] decision we all are sharing the same sentiment, FUCK THAT!!!"

Accordingly, a sign atop their chimney now reads, "Fuck That!"

Yes. Exactly.

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Fullmetal Trekkie: Voice Actor Vic Mignogna to Direct Star Trek: Phase II Episode

You probably wouldn't recognize the actor as he sits down to eat a burger at Mel's Diner, but if you

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Young Vic Mignogna in Star Trek cosplay
watch enough late-night TV, you might recognize Vic Mignogna's voice from many an English dub anime. The recent LA transplant has voiced characters in over 100 anime and video game titles, including Dragonball Z, Bleach, Code Geass, Shin-chan and Hell Girl. But it's his roles as Edward Elric, the teenage "fullmetal alchemist" in the show of the same name, and, more recently, Tamaki Suou, the oblivious pretty boy who heads a posh prep school dating service in Ouran High School Host Club, that have made him an icon of the anime convention circuit. By his own estimation, Mignogna attends between 15 and 25 cons a year, where he hosts Q/A panels, signs autographs for hours at a time and mingles with fans.

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Stage Raw: 4 X 4

Categories: Stage Raw
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The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Elephant Man at Andak Stage Company

4 X 4

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Adelina Anthony in Jotalogues.
Photo courtesy of Highways


Highways Performance Space presents 4X4 - performances by Adelina Anthony, Reina Alejandro Pradio, Yosimar Reyes and R. Ernie Silva.

Silva's Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame is the serio-comic autogiographical story of a street kid from Brooklyn.

Prado's Whipped! concerns a "good Mexican girl, caught in a time warp of 1950s ideals of deomsticity and womanhood, who enters the worlds of Eartha Kitt and fetish culture.

Anthony's Jotalogues is part of a full-length solo performance that tackles ingergenerational conversationals among queer Latia/os.

And Reyes performs a work from his new collection For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly.

Friday and Saturday, June 5-6, 8:30 p.m. at Highways, 1651 18th Street Santa Monica. (310) 315-1459.

The Pretty Girls With Glasses Appreciation Society

Categories: Fashion

In college, I knew a guy who only liked girls with glasses. Every gal to him looked better in spectacles. It didn't matter if she was pretty, ugly, old, young, short, tall, big or small--if she had prescription lenses, she became instantly 10 points hotter. Eventually, this guy became my boyfriend. When we first started going out, I had 20-20 vision. I worried that he wasn't attracted to me. "But I don't wear eyeglasses," I said.

"Not yet," he said.

Anyway, this latest offering in the world of sexy librarian chic fetishes, The Pretty Girls With Nerdy Glasses Appreciation Society, is sort of the fashion model version of that aesthetic. The girls are indeed pretty. Do the glasses make them more so? I'm not sure.

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A random girl from The Pretty Girls WIth Nerdy Glasses Appreciation Society

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Is That A Skull In Your Bread (Or Cup, Or Chair, Or Spaghetti, Or Whatever)? Skull-A-Day's Noah Scalin Talks About The Gruesomest Everyday Design Icon

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Skull Bread, a.k.a. "Night of the Living Bread" by Noah Scalin

Noah Scalin loves skulls. Loves. Skulls. He is 37 years old, lives in Richmond Virginia, and runs the socially conscious design consulting firm Another Limited Rebellion. He is known for his Skull-A-Day project, which consists of a website (followed by a book) wherein he posted a photo of one skull every day for a year. (See the original numbers 1 through 122 here.) He made the skulls. Then other people started making and sending him skulls.

He's made them out of tofu, and turnips, and styrofoam cups, and sugar cubes, and avocados, and beer cans, and bread, and yarn, and rice. He's even made them out of eggs.

Why do you like skulls?



I could make up a deeply meaningful answer about their power as memento mori, but the reality is I've liked them since I was a kid and I've always had a bit of an interest in biology and the darker side of things (some of my favorite books as a kid were by Charles Addams and Edward Gorey). In fact the skull I used as a model for a lot of my work was actually a kit I bought when I was in middle school!

Don't you find them scary?



Nope.

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Utah, Get Me Two! Gary Busey Joins Point Break Live! at the Dragonfly

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Gary Busey joins the cast of Point Break Live! on stage
Actor Gary Busey made a special appearance at the Dragonfly on Friday night for the May 22 performance of Point Break Live!, the wildly popular punk-rock stage adaptation of the 1991 action flick Point Break that starred Busey as seasoned FBI agent and general badass, Angelo Pappas, opposite Keanu Reeves' Johnny Utah.

During the performance Busey clearly enjoyed himself, cheering and heckling from the front row, wearing his "survival kit" rain poncho, and even picking up a cap gun and Super Soaker to join the cast members for the show's final shoot-out. I joined the cast backstage after the show for what was an epic night in Point Break Live! history.

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Stage Raw: The Singing Skeleton

Categories: Stage Raw
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This week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on El Ogrito (The Ogreling) and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

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The Singing Skeleton Photo courtesy of Stella Adler Theatre

NEW REVIEW THE SINGING SKELETON The first hour of Stefan Marks' satire of actors and their odd relationship to theater finds hilarious truth in the absurdity of the odyssey of inexperienced, but emotionally connected artists trying to find a path through Hollywood. Spouting eye-rolling  platitudes about acting techniques and script writing, several character might easily become two-dimensional jokes, but Marks' ear for actor lingo and a fine cast allow the play to weave a tight fabric of reality out of the ludicrous. Most successful is Barrett Shuler whose brilliant, deadpan portrayal of Brandon, a first-time playwright who is nearly as passionate about the work as he is about gorgeous Hannah (Jessica Kepler) whom he hopes to cast (and kiss) as his star. Brian Taubman as his clueless best friend, Mark Gadbois as an aging and idiotic macho actor, and Matt Weight as an Australian pretty boy join in to make this journey through Equity waiver heartbreakingly funny. The title is not metaphoric but literal as a singing skeleton (Marks) punctuates the play and play-within-a-play with pithy songs beautifully sung to acoustic guitar. Sadly Act 2 disintegrates into cheap sketch, still garnering laughs, but from feeble jokes rather than clever insights. Occasionally the foolishness pauses for a melodramatic moment, but the play never regains the polish and painfully funny beauty of Act 1.  Stella Adler Theatre, 6773 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood; Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m.; thru June 27. (888) 201-0804. Crooked Arrow Productions. (Tom Provenzano)

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L-I-V-I-N at Hollywood Forever: Cinespia presents Dazed and Confused

Categories: Events, Film


View more photos in the "L-I-V-I-N: Dazed and Confused @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery" slideshow.

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Contemplating if they should try to wait in the long line.
It took an hour to find parking somewhere in the vicinity of Hollywood Forever on Sunday night, at least half of which was spent trying to get through one intersection. Santa Monica Boulevard and Gower had turned into a mess of cars trying to enter the cemetery, people walking between traffic with beach chairs and Trader Joe's grocery bags hoisted above their heads and flannel and denim-clad folks waiting in line for that moment when Matthew McConaughey's character "Wooderson" would appear onscreen with his slick car, tight pants and porn mustache, ready to espouse wisdom. Needless to say, this Cinespia screening sold out quickly, leaving me to wonder, why did Dazed and Confused become such a cult hit?

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