If you collect weird vintage ephemera, you know the drill: you find a rabbit hole, jump in, and hope you don’t land on a pile of moldy encyclopedias.
Or blood. Here is where collectors get twitchy. Tonkato Unusual Childrens Book S13 HOT-
The book appears to be a thin, stapled paperback—think classroom reader size. The cover art shows a long-necked, sad-eyed creature (part llama, part wilted eggplant) holding a single balloon. The balloon is leaking a black fluid that looks suspiciously like ink. If you collect weird vintage ephemera, you know
In the die-cast car world, “S13” refers to a Nissan Silvia—a hot drift car. Why is a children’s book tagged with car culture slang? The book appears to be a thin, stapled
“Tonkato Unusual Childrens Book S13 HOT-”
The text reads: “Tonkato puts his hoof in the hole. The hole is for the rain. But the rain tastes like the radio. Tonkato does not like the radio.” The illustration shows the creature licking a storm drain while a severed radio antenna grows out of a puddle.
Last night, I fell into a one.