Tokii Lab

I’ll be the first to admit it, I was raised by a father, a mother, and the TV. I am a walking vessel of the cool I’ve seen on various screens and it’s informed how I think, how I dress, and how I talk to the ladies. So when Karla asked me for ideas for [...]

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I’m a bookworm pure and simple. If I have a free minute you’ll probably catch me with my nose in a book.   That said, I’m also a snob, so when Karla (Tokii Founder) asked me to read one of her Harlequin novels from the “Blaze” series,  I was skeptical.  For those who don’t know already, [...]

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Posted By: Brock Swinson With two Snow White movies  coming out in the same year, it’s obvious the fairy tale trend is spreading like a medieval plague. Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror are on the big screen while Once Upon a Time airs weekly on ABC. Ironically, Disney also chose to shelve [...]

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Little Red Riding Hood is skipping merrily through the forest when out jumps the big bad wolf and says, “Aha, Little Red Riding Hood. I’m going to gobble you up … gobble, gobble, gobble!” Little Red Riding replies, “Gobble, gobble, gobble, that’s all they think about around here. Doesn’t anybody fuck anymore?” Another version of [...]

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It goes like this: poor, oppressed common girl seeks handsome aristocratic man and dreams of a life with him, filled with love, beauty and unimaginable wealth. When her would-be betrothed first catches a glimpse of her, he is immediately smitten because, well, it is simply “meant to be.” However, first he must battle social prejudices/wicked [...]

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Had your weekly dose of drama? It’s a burning question inquiring producers want to know.  Why?  Because they’re chasing ratings.  Bravo execs want to know if you’ve tuned in to watch:  cat fighting, a-little-on-the-heavy-side-of-recreational alcohol consumption, backstabbing, shopping, gabbing, partying and dream-seeking.  Specifically, TV officials want to know if you’ve tuned in to see how [...]

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Affirmations of the Next Generation on Finding a Better World By: Portia Brockway On my morning walk today I encountered the scrawled graffiti: “Wiki is killing us.” A few generations from now, the creators of Wiki and its descendents may indeed have our young civilians killing, each other, on demand. As The Hunger Games opens [...]

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By : Russell Bradley Fenton Dear Parents, “The Hunger Games,” “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part One,” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part Two” were like the three best movies to come out in a long time. Katniss and Peeta are trying to stay alive on a TV show. Bella and Edward [...]

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Relationships are complicated, especially so when there has been love, hate and everything in between. This movie took me through a merry ride of questioning, as it lead me through the complexity of the relationship between Jake (Alec Balwin) and Jane (Meryl Streep) after ten years of divorce. There were times when I rooted for [...]

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Kramer vs. Kramer was released in the days before VCRs. In those days movies were released in the theatres and it could be years before they came on television. After watching the movie this past week, it’s hard to connect to those days when Joanna’s (Streep) decision to leave her child to “find herself” would [...]

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