Karaoke is the New Black

So, I got Lips for my Xbox a while back, and while it may not be a great game for solo playing, it's absolutely great for a party. I brought it to the Christmas gathering, and it was hilarious (in a good way). Sister, brother-in-law, brother, sister-in-law and I each sang and even 2/3 of the niece-ing crew did a bang-up rendering of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

Lessons learned:

• It's possible that Simon LeBon wasn't exactly a talented poet.
• Each song that you think you know really well has lyrics that you've never heard.
  
• There are way too many words in Bust a Move
• The old videos are so much funier than you remember. Walk like an Egyptian? Painfully funny
• I know no new music.
  

It ended up being a fairly video-game-centric holiday. Other winning party games:

• Burnout Paradise - I learned its fun to crash as long as it is a pretty crash
  
• Boom Blox - The neices loved telling us where to throw and counting the points
• American Idol - better pitch mechanism the Lips, and you get to build your own singer
• Portal - very very trippy. Puzzles need multiple brains to solve.