A Blue Christmas
We enjoy watching re-runs of MASH, so much so that we're watching them again, to borrow from Kellogg's corn flakes, watching them again for the first time. It's not the first time, of course - I know scenes, even lines by heart. That's handy, at times, because the writing was fantastic. They had real doctors as advisors so the medicine part was accurate, relatively speaking. But I have always suspected they had a clergyman hiding somewhere in the writing room because Father Mulcahey was written very well as a man of the cloth, with depth and value, always ready to slip in with some "cross-action” as Trapper would say, offering prayers and blessings in the goriest and most intense of moments. There is an episode that comes to mind this time of year. I don't remember the title, or even the season. If you're also a fan, you'll recall the episode. It's Christmas, the 4077 is putting on a little Christmas party for Ouijambou families, and a soldier is b...