My Favorite Weekend

Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller, performing at the Wilshire Theatre through April 5.

Truth and Illusion: I try to make it to the Skeptics Society’s monthly lectures at Caltech in Pasadena. The lectures present real scientific information on nut things, so you have someone debunking psychic phenomena or proving how Holocaust conspiracy theorists are wrong. It’s great.

Guy’s Night Out: I like to go to the Smoke House across from Warner Bros. in Burbank with my friend Drew Carey. It’s a good old-fashioned restaurant with lots of wood and thick steaks, not trendy L.A. stuff.

Course Work: I don’t approve of full-sized golf at all. Miniature golf is my game, and it doesn’t really matter where I play.

Getting Lucky: I like the mall on Sunset with Virgin Megastore and Buzz Coffee. I usually get lucky with the movies I see at the Sunset 5 movie theater.

Film Follies: I loved “Crash.” What more could you possibly want out of a movie but sex, violence and a minimum of talking? That’s the problem with most of our films today: There’s not enough sex and violence. Filmmakers tone the violence down so much that people confuse it with reality and think it’s what they’re supposed to do.

Ace of Clubs: I’ve never had a drink of anything in my life and, since most restaurants and clubs here serve alcohol, usually I like to stay away from them. But for NRBQ and Jonathan Richman, I’ll make an exception. They are my favorites.