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A Yule Gift From Me To You

MIL_5647-001So, with the longest night of the year approaching, I figured that I would give you a bit of a Yule gift: My recipe for Hot Buttered Rum. (Well, a gift for you, and it also makes it much easier to find this recipe if I post it here, rather than having to dig through my stuff to find where I wrote it down.)

This recipe was given to me seven years ago by my friend Natalie Parker, so all credit to her. I’ve been making this every year since.

You will need:

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 cups tightly packed brown sugar
  • 3 cinnamon sticks
  • 6 cloves
  • 2 cups rum
  • freshly whipped cream
  • nutmeg to garnish

Put the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and cloves in a slow cooker. Pour 2 quarts (8 cups) hot water over them and stir well. Cook on LOW for 5 hours. Add rum and stir to blend. Serve in mugs and add the cream and nutmeg.

Drink.

You’re welcome.

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Re-Election

Posting this mostly for journaling purposes — I was looking at the 2008 and 2004 elections from my heavier-blogging days, and realized that I really should have something here on 2012. Rather than go through the time and trouble of saying things that other people have already said, or that I said myself on social media last night, I decided that I’d use the opportunity to instead just copy my twitter posts from election night, as it happened (tweets from others are, obviously, things that I re-tweeted):

https://twitter.com/gmskarka/status/265983077052993536

https://twitter.com/bobbyfinger/status/266001246715015169

https://twitter.com/dizzyjosh/status/266008121619644417

https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/266022075335053312

https://twitter.com/Tepper/status/266027719085658113

https://twitter.com/chrisfholm/status/266040612967555074

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Video Killed The… Something Something

I’ve appeared in a couple of video projects recently, and so I figured that I’d share them here, for posterity’s sake.

In chronological order:

On Thursday, August 16th, 2012, T.S. Luikart and I had a seminar at GenCon (where we were both Guests of Honor), entitled “Far West: Western, Wuxia, Wild!”— an informational overview and Q&A on all aspects of the property — how it was developed, what’s been released, what’s still coming, and what is planned.

We recorded it so that it could be posted to the Far West website:
 
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqxMXhbIFzc


 
 

On August 27th, I participated in a Google Hangout with Chris Helton of the Dorkland!Roundtable. For those of you who aren’t already aware, A Hangout is a live video chat that is hosted on Google+, and then afterward is archived as a YouTube video. Pretty damned nifty — micro-broadcasting, really — and I plan on doing more of these in the future.
 
 




 
 

So there you have it. Two hours of rambling by yours truly. Enjoy!
 
 

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