Hit It: A Tuesday Five Before We Break Back Into Holiday Coverage

1. OH MY GOD THE RIVERS CUOMO RELEASE DROPPED TODAY!!!! MY DOWNLOAD FINGER COULDN'T HIT THE BUTTON FAST ENOUGH. Don't call me. DON'T. I will be listening to this album all day every day for the rest of the week because it is AMAZING.

2. C-Woo has a blog now! It's in the link list and you can access it here! And I'll probably be referencing it all the time because I always reference her MySpace blog, which you can't see and which I hear may be going away even though apparently we've all told her not to bail on MySpace. So, anyway, enjoy.

3. Happy Valentine's Day. Listen, given the givens of the "complications" of my life right now, Valentine's Day was going to be interesting anyway. But now, now it will not be. Because what I will be doing on Valentine's Day is going to my DUI arraignment. Yes. That will be my Valentine's Day. A courtroom. Special thanks, by the way, to Moon for gently guiding me on this. Wanna know how much love my friends show? Here are some responses when I informed them that I'd be spending Valentine's Day in court.

Said Pookie: "I'll take you out to dinner...or, um, deliver it to your holding cell ;)"
(Could you, Pook? Could you do that? Awesome. Maybe even a bottle of wine.)

Said McD: "I'll send you a heart-shaped box of chocolates. With a file inside."
(Clever.)

From Darren: "What's the problem with that? Bring a date to the Courthouse. Or better, make your lawyer your date. Offer "Valentine favors" dependent upon the level of his success in the courtroom."
(Moon might kill me since he recommended my lawyer. Or he might be infinitely amused. Hell, for all I know, he recommended this guy thinking he'd probably get laid with me as a client.)

From Princess Dee and Big E: "Erik, 'man on the bright side' said that maybe you will meet a great guy also there for the same thing in court that day. And then have a good time with him, but then ditch him because of SMOS. He catches on quick."
(I don't even know what to say to that.)

Perhaps, though, the following story is my favorite story. I didn't have time to email the person who shared it and confirm that I could attribute it to them, so I'm leaving it anonymous though said guilty party is welcome to use the comment function to let you all know that he's the rock star being referenced in the story. The story is even funnier if you know that the person who's telling it has a house, a responsible job, three kids and just sent out a holiday card of his family swathed in argyle:

"Well, if it makes you feel any better, at least you didn't have to get picked up from jail by your pregnant wife at 3 am.

I think we were married about two months and Mrs. Anonymous was definitely looking for the return receipt on her husband after that one. Luckily, I beat it in court, which it turns out is pretty easy with a good attorney. Of course, the whole experience cost me about $2500, so now I consider it my tuition into adulthood."

(But I don't want to enter adulthood, tuition-based or otherwise).

4. Ashleigh: By the way, left for her fourth month bike race for charity down the West Coast of Africa. I'm so freakin' proud of her for getting out there and living it. Send her positive vibes please.

5. This ... is what I found in my inbox from Ferris the other day. I wanted to argue that Prince has never done anything that was a crime against music in his life, but, well, I mean. I think the video speaks for itself.