Chuck Palahniuk is not everyone's cup of snake venom as he has become a bit rote as of late (the Stephen King  psycho-punk of serial novels?) but I am interested in how the film version of his novel Choke, starring Sam Rockwell and Angelica Houston, will turn out,  especially when the Fox Pub Depart. is handing out anal beads to promote the film

In a new interview with the Daily Texan, Palahniuk thanked Fox for the anal beads: "And then also 20th Century Fox is gearing up to publicize 'Choke,' so they have all these Chinese factory anal beads."

No mistake about it, a tough market these days. Watch the trailer here.

Post Script: Novelist Lucy Ellmann reviewing Palahniuk's latest, Snuff, for the NYTS

What the hell is going on? The country that produced Melville, Twain and James now venerates King, Crichton, Grisham, Sebold and Palahniuk. Their subjects? Porn, crime, pop culture and an endless parade of out-of-body experiences. Their methods? Cliché, caricature and proto-Christian morality. Props? Corn chips, corpses, crucifixes. The agenda? Deceit: a dishonest throwing of the reader to the wolves. And the result? Readymade Hollywood scripts.

Hahaha...eh-hum, she's right.