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What I finished reading

Lord Hornblower, in which C. S. Forester was not playing around. ( Read more... )

I bought TV’s M*A*S*H: The Ultimate Guide Book by Ed Solomonson and Mark O’Neill. I don't remember how it started but I went down a rabbit hole of looking up the show's stuntmen and stuntwomen. In those days stunt people were not listed in a show or a movie's credits, a fact that my grandpa liked to complain about. The book's description mentioned commentary from a stuntman so I bought it. His name is Michael Rodgers and he had lines so he was credited as an actor.

Lots of fun facts and interviews in the book. I knew Tumblr would love and hate Larry Gelbart's (I assume tongue-in-cheek) idea of what happened to the characters. “Hawkeye would have become a right wing conservative. BJ would be on this third marriage. Trapper John and his wife would be celebrating their 40th. Houlihan would be living with a woman partner. Radar would be a taxidermist. Klinger would be a Congressman. Potter would be deceased. So would I.”

What I'm reading now

Doomsday Morning by C. L. Moore, a standalone sci-fi novel from 1957.

Charles seriously had Radar carry his bag when Radar already had his hands full.

I wasn't expecting quite as much Charles/Margaret subtext as there is. They eat pheasant in her tent, she compliments his skin, and he reads the sexy part of BJ's mystery to her. Unlike that episode where Klinger has Charles read him something dirty, Charles doesn't object. It's Margaret who tells him not to continue.

I love that she almost always refers to herself as an engaged person or married person instead of woman.

The last one I watched was "Comrades in Arms" and so far Charles hasn't mentioned Honoria, so I guess she was added later, but he does possibly allude to his dead brother in "War of Nerves." I wonder what he did to almost get kicked out of school when he was 14. Cheated on a test? Got into a fight? Kissed a boy?

Hawkeye throwing Charles' steak on the ground in "In Love and War" was uncalled for. It wasn't even because Charles was being Charles; it was because Hawkeye was upset that his Korean love interest moved away.

I recognized the one general in "Last Laugh" because he was on the show before. His name is Robert Karnes and he was also on all my grandpapa's Westerns so it's no wonder he looked familiar. I didn't recognize Michael O'Keefe or John Ashton but their names rang a bell.

Favorite episodes from S1-3 of MASH

1. Deal Me Out - It's funny and it has a serious bit, and it has both Freedman and the general played by Pat Morita, who should have been in more than 2 episodes
2. The Army-Navy Game
3. Abyssinia, Henry - Breaks your heart, but the drunk good-bye dinner is great
4. Aid Station - The first sparks of Hawkeye and Houlihan's friendship
5. Adam's Ribs - I can't believe he actually had ribs shipped from Chicago to Korea
6. O. R. - Frank opening up to Trapper was interesting
7. Tuttle
8. Hot Lips and Empty Arms - Drunk Houlihan!
9. Kim - Trapper is adorable
10. Showtime - Henry's baby being born is so sweet

What I'm most looking forward to watching

1. Point of View - I like most of the gimmick episodes
2/3. Welcome to Korea/Change of Command - BJ and Potter arrive
4. Dear Sigmund - I love Freedman
5. Fade In, Fade Out - CHARLES!
6. Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler? - Freedman and Flagg
7. Temporary Duty - I think this is the one where Charles hugs Hawkeye
8. Mulcahy's War - I have no idea what happens but it has Mulcahy's name in the title
9. They Call the Wind Korea - Charles and Klinger get lost
10. The Billford Syndrome - Freedman, again

On the 21st it was too cloudy to see Jupiter and Saturn, but on the 22nd I had a very nice view of them.

Somebody sent a message to my Tumblr sideblog, historical-mg-ya, that said "Do you know tsar Nicholas ii?" and I answered "Not personally." They sent a second message that said "Do you do requests?" and a third that said "Can you do requests based from him?" I didn't answer those.

I made some kind of mistake torrenting MASH and now I'm just acquiring it one episode at a time. The first one I saw when I started watching it on TV in August was "Nurse Doctor" which is the second episode after Radar leaves so I decided to start with the first Radar-less one and then watch the Season 8-11 eps I didn't see, then the Season 1-3 eps I didn't see, then watch all of 4-7 and the beginning of 8 straight through.

1. Hawkeye, Trapper, BJ, and Blake
2. Hawkeye, Trapper, Charles, and Blake
3. Hawkeye, Frank, BJ, and Blake
4. Hawkeye, Frank, Charles, and Blake
5. Hawkeye, BJ, Charles, and Blake
6. Trapper, BJ, Charles, and Blake
7. Trapper, BJ, Frank, and Blake
8. Trapper, Frank, Charles, and Blake
9. Frank, Charles, BJ, and Blake
10. Hawkeye, Trapper, BJ, and Potter
11. Hawkeye, Trapper, Charles, and Potter
12. Hawkeye, Frank, Charles, and Potter
13. Trapper, BJ, Charles and Potter
14. Trapper, BJ, Frank, and Potter
15. Trapper, Frank, Charles, and Potter
16. Frank, Charles, BJ, and Potter

4 and 12 are my favorites, but anything with Frank and Charles meeting is good.