Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in a few weeks, and we also briefly considered just not doing something this week, and then we thought, . So here we are!

Next, the San Jose Metro: Gary Singh likes Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, even though he's not from San Jose. Too many kids in juvie. There's a hilarious picture of an person in an otter suit carrying a canvas bag!!!. Cover article: The ultimate frisbee scene in the Bay Area. This article is so South Bay! (geeky, yet sportif!) Turkish food in Menlo Park. The Rivers of Chocolate festival in Saratoga. It sounds kind of excessive ($100 = as much chocolate and wine as you can eat and drink.) The latest entrant in the San Jose alt arts scene -- authored by San Jose booster Gary Singh! The new Mos Def album deeply disappoints the reviewer, who now considers himself a former Mos Def fan. And San Jose taiko drumming.

After the jump: The East Bay Express, the SF Weekly, the weekly of the week, and the YTD count that we're probably a little overinvested in keeping up-to-date!

Oh no -- what about the YTD count? Everyone in December will say "that only adds up to 51!"