RIP young Aggie soldier. There will be a great deal of sadness over Fredericksburg -them 1850 Germans really love and cherish their younguns. For anyone noy knowing, that’s the boyhood hometown of Admiral Chester Nimitz. The old Nimitz family-owned hotel has become the center of a world-class museum of the Pacific Theater WWII. Ollie North, a San Antonio neighbor, shoots many of his “War Stories” TV shows there at the Nimitz Museum. Japanese veterans have come and erected a beautiful quiet Japanese rock garden in the courtyard. The boulders set alone and in groupings here and there across the meticulously raked riverine gravel bedding, all seem to be five times their actual size –even viewed in close, so artflly arranged are they. Bonsai trees in basaltic rock from ‘somewhere in the Pacific’. An ancient old guy or two, usually American but sometimes Japanese, are usually about, trailing a couple generations gaggle of family along behind. The old boys who fought that war. always touches one a little to see their intense interest in the displays and artifacts. history and its strange long shadow. and now a local boy is gone off into it with all the rest.

anyhoo, dave, there’s more’n one Frank in the world –the line is from HAL the psycho computer, the Frank is the astronaut that HAL has just robotically murdered in the Kubrick movie “2001″. There’s also that Frank in that old story about the two spinsters who were quite Frank with each other but i shant repeat such doggerol here. Well the elections kept me wide awake all night and now that the polls are openig i’m keeling over n falling out –