From Boredom to Board Room

Matthew Baldwin's 2008 Good Gift Game round-up is worth a look - some great games and fun reviews!

Board games make great gifts, so great, in fact, that every year Matt assembles a top ten list of Good Gift Games (G3s), titles that even those who don�t typically play games will love playing. In doing so, he primarily looks for those that meet three criteria:

• Easy to learn, with rules that can be explained in less than five minutes
• Entertaining enough that even the guy who comes in dead last has a great time playing
• Quick, lacking downtime, and requiring an hour or less to complete

My most likely to buy? TZAAR and The Hanging Gardens

Cheers...

Greatest Guitar Songs - Ever

I'm not sure which is more entertaining - the list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" as presented by Rolling Stone, or the comments by disgruntled fans who are beside themselves because of glaring omissions and misplaced rankings. ( I for one believe that "Black Magic Woman" deserves higher than a 39...)

Here are the Top Ten on the list:

1. "Johnny B. Goode," Chuck Berry (1958)
2. "Purple Haze," The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
3. "Crossroads" Cream (1968)
4. "You Really Got Me" The Kinks (1964)
5. "Brown Sugar" The Rolling Stones (1971)
6. "Eruption" Van Halen (1978)
7. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" The Beatles (1968)
8. "Stairway to Heaven" Led Zepplin (1971)
9. "Statesboro Blues" The Allman Brothers Band (1971)
10. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana (1991)

Cheers...