MASH Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

Like just about everyone else in America I watched the last episode of M*A*S*H when it aired. It was on again last night, and since I haven’t seen it since it first aired, I decided to give it another look. Odd how old everyone looked. MASH has been in constant re-runs since it went off the air, but I don’t seem to see too many episodes from the last season. But then, the last couple of seasons had wandered so far from the original show that they were nowhere near the same animal. They weren’t exactly funny any more. MASH…

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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda

I listened to Alan Alda’s Never Have Your Dog Stuffed read by Marc Cashman and an odd thing happened. When I think about the words, spoken in a voice not much like Alan Alda’s voice, I hear in my head, Alan Alda’s voice. I’m sure this has something to do with the fact that I have heard Mr Alda speaking just about everyday since 1972. Well, not Alda really, but Hawkeye, which amounts to the same thing. And Hawkeye is always on in a rerun.I have been a fan of Alan Alda for a long time. I loved Same Time…

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