Telestrations is the best board game you'll ever play!!! Fun for the whole family from ages 8-88!!! You'll die laughing, especially if you're closer to 88!!!

So there's this game that we like and when a group of people get near us, we make them play it. We are incredibly aggressive people, it's true. The game is like Telephone + Pictionary. Basically, you get a word from a card, draw it in a booklet and pass it to the next person. In turn, you get someone else's booklet and have to guess what that person drew. And repeat, like the circle of life, until you get your original booklet back.

It's quite hilarious unless you surround yourself with humorless people. This no-fun game would then be the least of your worries, I imagine.

So here's a round that I captured on camera because I can. I'd also like to reiterate at this moment that this is not an advertisement. I just like this game A LOT A LOT.

The word I had to draw was Chinatown. Stupendously difficult, right? Well, not for this ethnic immigrant:


I passed it on to my little brother who, no kidding, guessed Chinatown. I seriously made a masterpiece.
So then the next person had to draw Chinatown:

And the guess:

I have no idea how his brain got there. But onward:

I'm stumped by the minimalism, but this isn't a bad guess:

These bongs may be a little too accurate:

Doh! So much is going on in that drawing. The brain can only focus on one (wrong) thing:

So we went from Chinatown -> Key hole -> Bong -> Marijuana. Instant classic. Try not to get near me for the next few months while I campaign to make everyone and their mothers play this game.

In preparation and practice for some very legal sports gaming action next weekend in the holy mecca of Elvis, buffets and betting (Vegas), I'm going to try my hand at picking this week's NFL matchups. Below are the lines from some highly questionable online betting site. I've bolded the team who I think will cover/beat the spread, not win the game. If I do awesome, I'll check back here on Monday. If I don't (unthinkable!), I'll be extraordinarily busy on that day.

The first team listed is the favorite, the second team is the underdog and the last number is the line. My picks are bolded.

...didn't happen. But the Falcons put up a good fight for two and a half quarters. For that, I was thankful on the Thanksgiving holiday. Also, big props to my little brother who got us tickets through his drug and/or pimp connections. Not sure what he's doing these days, but when the end results are football tickets, I'm not asking.

Because this will probably be the high point of the season for me, I'm going to be obnoxious (it's gonna be a stretch) and gloat over the ass-kicking I gave my fantasy football league this weekend:

-- Carson Palmer threw for six (six!) touchdowns and a thousand yards and the Bengals still lost because not only did they dress like an Arena football team, they played like one. For real, any team with uniforms that horrendous can never really be called "winners".

-- Each of my running backs scored 20 points for me.

-- My stud WR Andre Johnson caught two TDs (no, not STDs, although I can neither verify nor confirm that) and then he went and sprained his knee. A real stud can not be a gimpy stud!

-- Calvin Johnson and newly acquired Broncos Brandon Marshall performed exactly as expected and that's all I ask for.

-- Let's not talk about Tony Gonzalez.

-- Jeff Wilkins booted a 53 yarder along with 2 more field goals. I'm going to ignore the 56 yard attempt that would've won the game against the 49ers. But I like the 49ers, so it's all good.

-- My man-tasy player Champ Bailey and the Denver defense picked off 2 passes and sacked the QB 4 times.

All in all, I racked up over 150 points. Next closest? 108. I'm going to ride this wave all the way to Vegas for next week's games where I'll surely have a craptastic Sunday because real money will be on the line and I get nervous around real money. But, that's okay. I'm a winner this week, mostly because I'm not a Bengal wearing that ridiculous uniform and losing to the even more ridiculous Cleveland Browns. I mean, what's a Brown?

• The sharpest crayon in the box? (if you get this, you are like so awesome)
• A shipping company with bad commercials?
• A player for the worst team in the NFL?
• No, wait, that's a Falcon.

Tapping into our 10 year old selves, we got a Nintendo Wii yesterday. It's as cool as you've heard. If you've heard nothing, you can either see this or stay under that rock of yours. It's all up to you.

I admit to not having a 10 year old body (Freaky Friday hilarity aside, that would be absolutely horrifying...for everyone) so after a few hours of chasing mutant rabbits, throwing cows and boxing, I'm more sore than any person should be from playing video games.

There are some games that require nothing more than finger exercise, but I think that misses the whole point of this particular game console. It's not about the awesomeness of the graphics or the speed of gameplay, but more about how comfortable you are dodging punches coming from your television screen.

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