Bathroom Reading

I think this is the coolest! Leave it to the crazy Japanese to come up with something so out-of-the-box. Koji Suzuki, author of The Ring, the Japanese novella on which the American movie is based, can printed his latest horror story called "The Drop," onto toilet paper. I came across it while reading the New York Times Magazine blog called The Moment. Here's the exerpt:


"Who says print is dead? Koji Suzuki, the Tokyo-based author of smash-hit horror novels like the “The Ring,” has found a new publishing medium: toilet paper. Suzuki has teamed with Hayashi Paper Company, which makes novelty printed paper products for public restrooms, to manufacture rolls of toilet tissue stamped with a nine-chapter horror novella called “Drop.” The story, about a goblin living in a public restroom, places the reader at the center of the tale, and each roll contains several copies of the novella so that you can easily pick up the narrative where you left off. (A friend of mine in Tokyo said it’s so scary, she was frightened to be alone in the bathroom.) A roll of “Drop” costs 210 yen, which, at just over $2, is a fair price for disposable art."
- Rocky Casale