Bay Area Blog Pulse

Josh Wolf captures the one, the only Frank Chu on tape. Listen and learn, people. Harder to capture is reclusive local author Laura Albert JT LeRoy. Also at large is the motherf**ker who vandalized Farmer John's coastside teepee.

A former Seattle Chief of Police writes a column in the LA Times about legalization. Split the difference and we arrive at San Francisco's general opinion. Speaking of libertarians, Cal Berkeley's Republican rag the California Patriot is wholeheartedly in search of a quality foil. Where are the free-market fundamentalists when you need them? Not in Nebraska, apparently.

What the man in the sable mock-turtleneck didn't announce? The iPod can actually record decent audio now. To a Bill Graham Presents bouncer's pocket from you, in other words. While we lament the impurity of the blogosphere, a certain Steven Spielberg has decided to jump into the video game market, falling lazily into bed with Electronic Arts.

Photo of cops at the de Young museum on Saturday by Eddie Codel.