Greetings!!
It's been about six months since I've started the blog.
It seems time for a round-up, a few thoughts and lessons learned, and announcements on coming changes. The original plan for this blog was to provide new content regularly in the areas of history, wargaming, historical and non-historical miniature gaming, media reviews, and media reviews.
I'm surprised that more people have not used the tags and scrolled through the older posts. There's some good stuff there. If you like history, use the tags. If you like photos of miniature figures, use the tags.
You may wish to know, I have books on several subjects for sale
-- Books by Peter Huston at Amazon.
Current projects that I am working on include:
1. Bloody Sands, Cheering Stands --Miniature Wargame Rules and Wargamers Guide to the Roman Gladiators and Arena
2. 18th Century North American Wargaming Miniature Rules (working title is "Flintlocks and Funny Hats" but I hope to find a better one)
3. Chop Sockey!! Kung Fu Miniature Wargaming Rules
The above three will influence the content of this blog.
4. Holidays at the Ambulance, 1986 --a novel that has been completed but remains in search of a publisher.
Recently released projects include
Put Your Favorite Picture Here: Awesome Tales of Space Aliens, Vampires, Pop-Stars, Human Beings, And Other Truly Strange, Amazing, Amusing, And Disturbing Things as Written by the Award Winning, World Travelling, Life Saving Author Peter Huston
Since its founding, some of the pieces have gotten hundreds of hits.
For those interested, the top five posts were:
Two of these I'd classify as well-researched pieces (the Smallpox in China and the Uighur Unrest pieces ). The Mary Dyer piece, I'd classify as light but little known history, something else I'd hoped to provide here. The pieces on the Roman arena were both gaming pieces and I suspect they attracted interest because they had nice pictures of interesting models and were shared in popular internet forums.
In the next few months, I hope to include more content. This will include straight pieces on historical subjects, wargaming photo pieces, and media reviews (especially book and film reviews.). These last pieces, the media focused pieces, will include links so that interested people can purchase the items and thus bring provide money and encouragement for the blog. Movie reviews are something I have no included in the past.
A Sampling of Other Blog Posts
In the meantime, should you wish to check out the past blog posts, there were several others that I either consider well done or wish had gotten more attention. You can check them out here. :
1. Iroquois housing and architectural shift at the time of the American Revolution (plus some gaming stuff)
This one contains some well done research on an interesting question on a little known topic --Iroquois adaption of western housing styles. It also contains information on the subject for miniature wargamers.
2. Ancient Rome - What was the arena and what were “the games”?
3. Confucianism, Communism, and their Intersection in North Korean Symbolology.
4. Did the Chinese discover America? Is Gavin Menzies a genius? Hell, no. Smallpox shows they did not.
5. Did Marilyn Monroe get a rib removed to appear more slender?
This one, interestingly, is getting a lot of hits at one of my other blogs, but not here.
6, "Ambulance Dogs" in the German Army, circa 1900
7. Pseudohistory, Creationism, and Dinosaursl
8. South East Asian Cultural Boundaries of the Pre-Modern World and their Continuing Effects on the Modern World
9. Historical European Martial Arts (H.E.M.A.), the Rondel or medieval dagger, and the Fiore Dei Libri manuscript
10. General Tso's Chicken and Jennifer 8. Lee's Chinese food presentations
Finally, for those interested, here is the least viewed post.
Fourteen people read this one. I don't know why. I think it's very interesting. It even has links to music videos. How can anyone be unhappy with piece that includes music videos? And personally I think more people should learn the story of Tommy Page. Check it out. Be number 15. Learn who Tommy Page was and why I consider him worth mentioning.
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