ANGLOCAT ON The Prowl: A Deacon's Miscellany

No, no; I don’t intend to force episodes together into mini-reviews. It’s just that these two go together so naturally that it’s hard not to look at them together. That’s partially because “Requiem for a Lightweight” focuses more on Trapper John, while Hawkeye is the focus of “Chief Surgeon Who?” We start seeing some differences…

The surrealism of Henry Blake’s “handmade American antique” desk sailing through the air as the dazed C.O. watches from below (while still recovering from the disappearance of the entire back wall of his office) is all the more irresistibly funny for McLean Stevenson’s surface calm through the whole sequence. He underplays it beautifully, leaving the…

Korea, 1950: A Hundred years Ago. Having obtained a set of the DVDs , I once more watched the first episode of a show that I was a fan of from childhood through high school, until it vanished, as 70s and 80s TV shows did, prior to the modern age of streaming video, that is,…

“The Better Part”:A Sermon on Luke 10:38-42Delivered at St. Bartholomew’s Church, NYCJuly 17, 2022 In the Name of God, Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer.How do we read this story, a story of two women, sisters, each of whom has a relationship with Jesus, and each of whom is close to him? Do we take the well-travelled road…

Despair and doubt can be heavy burdens. Especially when we live in a world that seems to be turning away from what we were taught to see as “the Good,”—from compassion, from love of neighbor, including the stranger and the refugee. From basic honesty and integrity. From justice, let alone mercy. As the United Nations…

(My copy of the 1968 first edition of the novel that started it all) Many of us of a certain age remember the television show MASH, and even the more raucous, innovative and sometimes infuriating film that inspired the program. Both the film and the series were based on a 1968 novel that is hardly…

When did you first meet the devil? My first meeting with him —and by far the most enjoyable—was when I was 13 years old, shortly before Christmas, 1979.  Faithful Catholics that my parents were (and still are), they knew that Manhattan was the best place to meet the devil.  Granted, they cordially loathed Manhattan (at least…

When did you first meet the devil? My first meeting with him —and by far the most enjoyable—was when I was 13 years old, shortly before Christmas, 1979.  Faithful Catholics that my parents were (and still are), they knew that Manhattan was the best place to meet the devil.  Granted, they cordially loathed Manhattan (at least…