TUESDAY
Are you so pissed off at DCist for our marginal abetting of the Death Cab pre-sale sellout that you’re just busting to express your righteous hipster indignation in unrhymed dactylic hexameter? Rail against the machine, dude, at Busboys and Poets’ weekly open mic “session.” It all goes down tonight at 9 p.m. Tickets are handed out “approximately one hour” before, and they cost two dollars. Hmmm. We recommend “Indig Nation” as the new name for this event. 2021 14th Street, NW.

WEDNESDAY
Tonight, join Olsson’s Books and a host of special guests for a fundraising event to benefit the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. The reception will last from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and will feature live music and book signings. And those donations are tax deductible. The suggested donation for FEMA employees is $70,000; all others, please give generously. At the National Register of Health Services Providers in Psychology Offices, 1120 G Street, NW, Suite 330. For reservations call Carolyn Bain, Bain Pugh & Associates Inc., 301-320-0773.

THURSDAY
Author James Reston comes to the Friendship Heights Village Center in Chevy Chase. What will he be doing? According to Politics and Prose’s website, his book “Dogs of God chronicles the years of the Spanish Inquisition,” while his “Fragile Innocence is the story of the author’s daughter Hillary, who was left without speech at 18 months old after a mysterious series of fevers and seizures.” In addition, he will be making “a case for embryonic stem cell experiments, human cloning, and animal organ transplants.” Cloning? Animal-human hybridization? Feh, it’s President Bush’s problem, now. 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD., 7:30 p.m.