"You want to see your intestines?" says a guy whose forearm is tattooed with a scene from a Hitchcock film. I've just walked into the Speakeasy, and the first thing I see is Mandy Cox, DJ and booker for the bar's new rock-themed Tuesday night, listening to her friend read what is quite possibly the most disgusting story I've ever heard in my life. You don't want to hear the next sentence he reads from Chuck Palahniuk's "Guts," a short story that reportedly caused audience members to faint during a reading in Portland, Oregon. Suffice it to say it involves peanut butter, lambskin condoms, and about five feet of digestive tract tangled in a... More >>>