Penn Jillette

Dolphins
$1.99

Penn & Teller - Off the Deep End
$24.95
It was a largely underwater magic show. The promotional bits, music, and Penn's voice were annoying.
Some traditional illusions, performed underwater. They did a "pick a card" trick with a surprisingly large number of people at the beach. One of the underwater illusions was timed to Aaron Carter's singing (also annoying, but less so than the commercial break music). One of the coolest bits had Teller straitjacketed and shut in a box, to be lowered into shark infested waters. There was even a trick involving trained dolphins.
The big finish was making a real submarine disappear before a large audience of divers.
If you get this DVD, you should probably fast-forward through the promos, as they are really annoying, particularly the music.

How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker: The Wisdom of Dickie Richard
$12.99
This book is SO funny! One of the few books I have laughed out loud while reading.

Penn & Teller Get Killed [VHS]
$14.98
Are we live? Yeah.

Crazy good. Beyond good. Mark Twain meets Patrick McGrath and they both have coffee at The Factory with Edie Sedgwick and Frederick Pohl and Luis Bunuel and then Thomas M. Disch (circa 1974) and Alice B. Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.) show up with glazed donuts good. No - glazed donuts AND crullers. That's how good this is.

Perhaps the best part is the Fan's home video, but the whole thing is purest grow-a-whole-new-brain good. Watch this and have mad new thoughts about public and private acts, illusion and reality, spectator and performer, celebrity and obscurity, fame and responsibility, envy and identity, and how they all gooshily bleed into each other. And just generally be entertained as hell.

But I want it on DVD! So will you; you'll want to watch holes in this thing, Eraserhead eighties hair or no Eraserhead eighties hair. I believe I acquired my copy the year it came out, and I still get that hair-raising chill that tells you you're in the presence of genius, real mythic dreamtime inspiration, every time I watch it. Like other masterpieces, it probably has more depth and meaning than the authors themselves were aware of at the time, and it reveals new levels every time you watch it.

But I'd really like it to be available on DVD.

A respectful request to P&T from a devoted (but not like in the movie) fan: it's not the fourteenth century, and it would make a lot of us very happy to see this on a medium that doesn't get all stretched out after four hundred viewings.

No hard feelings?