One of my favorite things about running this website, is realizing, on a continuing basis, just how many people love the writing of Chuck Palahniuk.  This stretches across the board from regular everyday readers, college professors, celebrities and yes, even world renown fetish models.

Masuimi Max has been a staple in the fetish photography world for several years now.  She's the punk rock Dita Von Teese.  The real 'Suicide Girl'. She's done stage shows, been on dozens of magazine covers, and has even had small parts in David Lynch movies.  How cool is this chick!? 

Well, like most cool people, she's also a fan of Chuck Palahniuk.  So when I asked if she wouldn't mind us sending her one of our new 10th Anniversary 'Fight Club' shirts, she not only gobbled up the opportunity, but also agreed to model the shirt for her website IAmTrouble.com. But Masuimi went furtherand included the following blog on her site, forum, MySpace, Facebook and Twitter: read more »

With Christmas exactly two weeks away, now is the best time to get your orders in for one of our new Fight Club Tshirts.  These shirts were designed by LA designer Kevin Tong and are completely original and unique.  They come in cornflower blue and tan for Men, and just cornflower blue (for now) for Women.  They are available in all sizes.

Order Your Shirts Here!

Furthermore, we are now offering great deals in our Store on other items that we have bundled together.  So if you purchase the shirts with other items, such as the Chuck Palahniuk Documentary DVD or even a 1 yr Premium Membership to our site (which includes full access to our Writers' Workshop and all of Chuck's original writing essays), you will get a big discont on your order!

Check Out Our Bundle Deals Here!

For all of our items, check out our Store.  You can also see a list of Recommendations here!

Happy Holidays!

Does this sound familiar?  Luckily, Tyler Durden never spent any time in Peru, so we know he had nothing to do with this.  All kidding aside though, this is a ghastly story.  I'll let the Huffington Post take over from here:

LIMA, Peru — A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major market for fat might exist.

Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Col. Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police. He said the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told police it was worth $60,000 a gallon ($15,000 a liter).

Mejia said the suspects told police the fat was sold to intermediaries in Lima, the Peruvian capital. While police suspect the fat was sold to cosmetic companies in Europe, he could not confirm any sales.

Read The Full Story Here

Chris Gore has become our new best friend. You may remember that a couple weeks back he decided to review our Chuck Palahniuk documentary DVD "Postcards From The Future", during his 'DVDuesday' segment on G4's 'Attack of the Show.

After we posted about this, Chris then actually joined The Cult and left a comment on the news post. How awesome is this guy? To repay him for the plug, Mirka and I decided to send the dude a care package of ChuckPalahniuk.net goodies. And since Chris had mentioned  that Survivor was his favorite Chuck Palahniuk book, we dropped one of our awesome Survivor Tshirts in with the package.

Well, if you watch the video below, where Chris reviews the new Fight Club Blu-ray DVD set, you'll see that he graciously decided to wear the shirt on live TV!

Much love, Chris. That's an awesome site to see. Watch the video below the break!  And order yourself one of our snappy Survivor Tshirts here! read more »

There's an awesome 'Art Of The Title Sequence' blog breakdown on 'Fight Club' that friendly staffer Kirk just clued me into. 

Check it out here:  http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/11/16/single-take-titles-part-2-the-in...

The breakdown of the title sequences includes video and screenshots.  Scroll down the page for the part about 'Fight Club'.

Check out this great article from the NY Times on the legacy of Fight Club.  The article interviews David Fincher, Edward Norton and Chuck Palahniuk with small snippets and looks back at the crontrovery surrounding the release of the film.  It also looks at its lasting appeal and the factors that made it into such a cult hit.

Read the NY Times article here

This is a big day for all you Fight Club fans.  The movie is finally available on Blu-ray in a special.... correction.... a "You Are Not Special" edition DVD.

Order it here!

The set includes all the features of the previous version, including:

• NEW: A Hit In The Ear: Ren Klyce and the Sound Design of Fight Club
  • Welcome To Fight Club
  • Angel Faces Beating
  • The Crash
  • Tyler's Goodbye
• NEW: Flogging Fight Club
• NEW: Insomniac Mode: I Am Jack's Search Index, Commentary Log, Topic Search
• Behind the Scenes Vignettes: Production, Visual Effects, On Location
• Edward Norton Interview
• Commentary by David Fincher
• Commentary by David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter
• Commentary by Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Uhls
• Commentary by Alex McDowell, Jeff Cronenweth, Michael Kaplan and Kevin Haug
• Seven Deleted Scenes and Alternate Scenes
• Trailer Farm – Theatrical Teaser, Theatrical Trailer, The Eight Rules of Fight Club
• 12 TV Spots
• Public Service Announcements
• Music Video
• Five Internet Spots
• Promotional Gallery
• Art Gallery

Most of these above features we've seen already.  So it seems the main reason to get this disk is to have this awesome movie on Blu-ray finally.

Check out the official site for the DVD

Our brand new 10th Anniversary Fight Club Tshirts are now shipping!  If you haven't yet placed your order for one of these amazing shirts...

Order Your 'Fight Club' Tshirt Today!

Many of you were holding off on your orders until we had some modeling shots to show you.  Well, as of last week, I got some friends together and we took about 400 pictures of them wearing the 'Fight Club' shirts.  To see some of the best pics we captured, check out our Fight Club Tshirt gallery!  We purposely photographed people with different body types, so you can get a full idea of how the shirts will look on you.

Also don't forget that we are co-promoting the sale of these awesome Tshirts with the limited edition posters that the designer, Kevin Tong, has put together.  The design features the high-rez image from the shirts, which you can see below.  These posters are selling out quick, and there will not be another run of them.  The poster is hand screen printed, four colors, on 18 x 24 inch Cornflower Blue 100 lb Cover Paper in a limited edition of 200. It costs $30.  For more details as well as pictures of the poster:

Order Your Limited Edition 'Fight Club' Poster Here!

Unfortunately, the t-shirt and the poster must be ordered separately as they ship from different locations. read more »

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Our brand new 10th Anniversary Fight Club Tshirts are now shipping!  Furthermore, as of today, Mirka has already shipped out all the pre-ordered shirts.  So if you had already placed your order, you should be getting your shirt(s) within a few days.  If you haven't yet placed your order for one of these amazing shirts...

Order Your 'Fight Club' Tshirt Today!

But wait, it gets better!  Kevin Tong, the amazing designer of the Tshirt, has a co-promotion with us whereby he's offering limited edition posters of his 10th Anniversary 'Fight Club' shirt design.

The poster is hand screen printed, four colors, on 18 x 24 inch Cornflower Blue 100 lb Cover Paper in a limited edition of 200. It costs $30.  For more details as well as pictures of the poster, click here!

Order Your Limited Edition 'Fight Club' Poster Here!

Unfortunately, the t-shirt and the poster must be ordered separately as they ship from different locations. read more »

For years we've been offering Tshirts on this website for all of Chuck Palahniuk's books.  You have demanded them and we have delivered.  But strangely, the one shirt we never made was a Fight Club shirt.

Well, that all changes today.  In honor of the 10 year anniversary of the movie Fight Club, as well as the 10 year anniversary of ChuckPalahniuk.net (yes, it's been that long!), we are finally offering you the shirts you've been wanting for years!  But this time we took things up a notch.  We wanted this shirt to look different than the rest.  We wanted it to not just feel like a 'Fight Club' movie shirt, but also channel the book.  So we wanted a design that was balanced.  Something hot.  Something you'd wear out and not feel like too much of a fanboy.  ;)

Order Your 'Fight Club' Shirt Here! read more »

Quentino Tarantino, whose new film "Inglorious Basterds" hits theatres on August 21st, has just compiled a six minute video for Sky Films in which he lists his Favorite 20 Films of the past 17 years.  Why 17 years?  Because 1992 is when Tarantino began directing and these are the films he admires most since then.

I tend not to post about 'Fight Club' movie screenings much anymore.  They happen so frequently, in every state, that it just doesn't seem that important to stay on top of.  But this screening in particular, is pretty cool.  'Fight Club' will be shown at the Hollywood Outdoor Cinema on August 21st, at 7:30pm.  Here are some of the events that will go with it:

• Come in your PJs for Pillow Fight Club!
• The First Rule of Fight Club is XBOX Giveaway!
• Craft Night for Tough Guys!
• Movie Lovers Support Groups!
• Prizes!
• Mobile Restaurant Row!
• Fight Club Photo Booth
• DJ Mix by megamonomnke

So if you live anywhere in the Los Angeles area, or don't mind traveling, this sounds like it could be a pretty awesome night at the movies.

Here is the website with all the details:  http://hollywoodoutdoorcinema.com/2009/06/legally-blonde/

(not sure about that URL, but it works) read more »

Our friends over at JoBlo.com have recently posted the latest episode of their JoBlo Movie Show into an homage to the 10-year anniversary of Fight Club.  According to their founder, Berge Garabedian aka JoBlo, it was made by fans, FOR fans.  Enjoy! read more »

This is becoming more and more a part of our pop culture.  So I tend to not always report about it.  But then again, every now and then, it's just fun to mention:

I was watching CBS tonight and there were Fight Club references in both CSI and Criminal Minds. In CSI a joke was made referencing the first rule of Fight Club. Three girls are in a diet club and a joke is made saying "the first rule of diet club is you don't talk about diet club". I thought this was pretty funny. In Criminal Minds there was a fight club that the killer belonged to. The FBI goes to this fight club while a fight is going on and breaks it up and interviews one member. This member goes on to say that at Fight Club there are no names only nick names.  I thought it was really cool that 2 separates shows both had Fight Club references in them on the same night of television..Feel free to pass this info on

Props to  Andy Ponti for the scoop. read more »

This may be old news for some of you, but SuicideGirls.com has recently posted a photo tribute to Fight Club.  I think this has something to do with the site's anniversary or something.  Be careful though.  The following link is NSFW.  You'll see lots of sweaty, tattooed breasts.  So many in fact, that I even had a hard time finding an image I could crop (above) for this news post.

Now, onto the photo tribute... and the... ahem... breasts: 

http://suicidegirls.com/members/Missy/albums/site/13576/

If the link doesn't work, it may be because you need a membership to the site.   read more »

Big props to Luke Felton.  Him and his buddies got together one Friday night and re-enacted some of the great scenes from 'Fight Club'.  Lotta love, enthusiasm and talent here.

Check out all the pics in our Gallery!

Proper credits are due:

Photography: Megan Brooks - www.myspace.com/sexualgoregeous
Make-Up: Michelle Brooks - www.myspace.com/peoplesuckyo
Photo Retouching & Art Director: Luke Felton - www.myspace.com/isawgodinyoureyes

Wow. This is just awesome. It seems a group of activists in the Ukraine calling themselves the UA Resistance, invoked the spirit of Tyler Durden by lighting up the side of an apartment complex in the form of a giant smiley face. The act was done in a non-violent effort to make a statement about the corruption causing high prices on apartment flats in the country.

Here's the email I received from the UA Resistance:

We have a present for Chuck on his Birthday:-) Ukrainian TV made a short interview about it, so we think, that it will be funny and interesting to send it to Chuck's fanclub. Where we can send photo of action?)  P.S. Sorry for bad grammar)) read more »

Something I have not done nearly enough promotion on, is the awesome new Fight Club anthology that just came out. I say it's awesome for many reasons (one of them being, that yours truly has an essay in it), but primarily because, Read Mercer Schuchardt, the guy who edited it, is someone I've known for a long time now. And he has one of the most unique and smart approaches to "Fight Club" that I have ever read.

"You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack's Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection" is a collection of essays on Chuck Palahniuk, the novel for 'Fight Club', and of course, the movie. It came out September 1st, and you should all order it here from Amazon. Hell, it's only $10!

To convince you all that this book is worth your hard earned money, I have partnered up with Jeff Mues at BenBella Books, the publishers, for a very exciting promotion. Basically, every month, for at least the next three months, we are going to feature a essay from the book for free download on this site. Starting today!

Download The Introduction To The 'Fight Club' Anthology Here! read more »

Apologies, as this news is now old.  Though I didn't see too many people discussing it here on The Cult.  My buddy Josh sent it my way.

It seems there was a real live fight club going on, right in the center of Union Sqaure in NYC late May.

The cops ended up stopping it, but still... this is wild.

Check Out The Story Here!

Here's a video story ESPN.com did on real fight clubs.  It chronicles a group of Sillicone Valley workers who meet regularly to do you know what.  Prepare though: This isn't what you'd immediately imagine in your head when you hear 'fight club' and think of the movie.  I dare say, this looks a little ridiculous.