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This book is for you if you're into...
- Deep dives into Portland's weirdest underground spots and local legends
- Eccentric museums and offbeat annual events you won't find in guidebooks
- Personal stories mixed with bizarre city history and oddball characters
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils currently reside?
Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?
Curious about Chuck's debut in an MTV music video?
What goes on at the Scum Center?
How do you get to the Apocalypse Café?
In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon.
Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots," as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise believe actually exist.
Here are strange personal museums, weird annual events, and ghost stories.
Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland.
Visit swingers' sex clubs, gay and straight.
See Frances Gabe's famous 1940s Self-Cleaning House.
Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa Rampage.
Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson.
Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland zoo.
Oh, the list goes on and on.
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