Awful lot of politics. We just have to get through it. … Here a couple of takes on the scene. … First, read below for former Public Defender Geoff Brown’s lashing indictment of DA Hallinan – for being a failed prosecutor -- and Brown’s endorsement of Bill Fazio. … Then secondly, midst all the hellzapoppin of the last few days, came a welcome visit from that for-real voice of insight, inside stuff, and startling lore: The Man Who Knows Just Enough. A visit that includes a typographical fly-by from Angela Alioto, with corrections! We do not fear the truth, nor fallibility. … By the way, when Michael Moore came to town the other day to endorse Green candidate Matt Gonzalez and to play phone pranks on Gavin Newsom, he bunked down with the best of them: The Four Seasons. ... And last weekend you would have found Sean Penn at the Slanted Door. Followed there shortly by the owners of the Kansas City Chiefs. Good thing they got there then. The SL caught fire the next day. It's reopened. ... Barnaby Conrad Jr., one of The City's great bar owners and novelists, comes to Moose's Nov 9 to celebrate his newest novel, "Last Boat to Cadiz." ... Onward to the fray and an unfrayed yarn:
