BY THE TIME you read this, Valentine's Day will be over, Janet's titty will be but a faint memory, and I will have nursed one drunken friend back to health (or at least to a state where she could drive home to Oakland). The weekend started at Cloud 9 with 50 go-go dancers – which should have been way hotter than it was – and ended with a very sloppy 15 minutes of dancing to freestyle at Toph One's packed Funkside reunion. (Hearty apologies to anyone who was knocked over while my friend showcased her tequila-driven lack of coordination.) Along the way, I did some platform dancing of my own, but stopped when I realized I wasn't getting paid. There were also some free drinks bought when Rab found a wallet on the ground, and some guy tried to hit on my drunken friend and me as we were sitting in my car and simultaneously puking into the gutter. If you didn't know it before, you know it know: some people have no shame.

Loft-y goals In the time that hasn't been taken up by vicious cycles like selling music/buying music, getting hangovers/nursing hangovers, and loving The Real World/hating The Real World, I've been reading Love Saves the Day (Duke University Press), Tim Lawrence's rather wordy account of disco and the pioneering house scene between 1970 and 1979. It's quite riveting imagining 50-year-old house music legend Frankie Knuckles vogueing to Patti LaBelle as a 15-year-old drag queen. Weirder still is finding out that David Mancuso has reopened the Loft, the groundbreaking club he used to hold out of his loft apartment in New York City. These days it costs $25 to get in, rather than $2, and you can say you went there, did it, and bought the T-shirt, literally. (The shirt retails for $19.99 at www.theloftnyc.com.)

Mancuso's loft revival hits New York right about the time some S.F. DJs are taking the house party back to the gay clubs. Safe's Mike Bee has been playing at the Cafe, there are tons of ostensibly "straight" indie punk shows going on at the Eagle Tavern, and I hear rumors that M3 and some friends are about to throw a night at Harvey's in the Castro. This could be a great thing for house music, sort of reclaiming it from the cocktail hour and sticking it back on a hands-in-the-air dance floor. And judging by the way most mixologists dress, we definitely need some Queer Eye for the DJ Guy. I know, I know, there's the Endup, but I'm not raving at 6 a.m. Sunday morning anymore – I'm in my bed, dreaming of the crab eggs Benedict at Elite Cafe.

Day-tripper In other news, Tuesday is officially the new Thursday. I ran into Just One Entertainment's Gary the other night at Milk (Moneyshot's booty-bumpingly packed Rob Swift show), and he told me he's thinking of moving his Broke as Fuck Tuesday night from the Hush Hush because it gets so full. He also told me Marina girls act all cold as ice until you put on the Ying-Yang Twins' "Salt Shaker" and then they get all freaky. Well, duh. Dirty lyrics and bumping bass lines have been making all ladies – from hippies to yuppies – shake ass since at least, like, 1950.

Also on Tuesday, Kevin Koga's got a jam going on at Naima at the Up and Down Club, where they just play random records they like, truly in the Loft's spirit. Then, of course, Tuesday-night drum 'n' bass drunken mayhem at the Top's Phuturo, and Sake1 and Mai-Lei play some smooth R&B and neo soul flavors at Soluna's Feelgood, if you want somewhere to start off your night. Luna Lounge (the former Border Cantina space on Folsom Street) is still running Taco Tuesdays, with house and free Mexican snacks until 10 p.m. If you need a hot boy, then he might be down at T&A at Beauty Bar, or maybe at Trannyshack at the Stud. And finally, I have never been, but Doublekick and mates are playing "eclectic indie/pop/rock beats" at Elevator in the Brain Hotel, all the way out at Sublounge in the China Basin wasteland, and you better believe they're making all the noise they want to. You know what else about Tuesdays? Two words and a hyphen. Two-dollar drinks.

Broke as Fuck, Tues., 10 p.m.-2 a.m., Hush Hush, 496 14th St., S.F. $2. (415) 241-9944.

Naima, Tues., 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Up and Down Club, 1151 Folsom, S.F. $3. (415) 626-2388.

Phuturo, Tues., 10 p.m.-2 a.m., Top, 424 Haight, S.F. $5. (415) 505-7929.

Feelgood, Tues., 8 p.m.-midnight, Soluna, 272 McAllister, S.F. Free. (415) 621-2200.

Taco Tuesdays, Tues., 5-10 p.m., Luna Lounge, 1192 Folsom, S.F. Free. (415) 626-6043.

T&A, Tues., 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Beauty Bar, 2299 Mission, S.F. Free. (415) 285-0323.

Trannyshack, Tues., 10 p.m.-3 a.m., Stud, 399 Ninth St., S.F. $7. www.heklina.com.

Elevator in the Brain Hotel, Tues., 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Sublounge, 628 20th St., S.F. Free. (415) 552-3603.