Whassup: Ambiguous Celebration Edition

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Tomorrow is 4/20, a day held sacred by Phish fans and neo-Nazis alike. I'd like to believe this is the only thing those two groups have in common, but humanity is a strange thing. Anyway, whatever you celebrate most in life, we here at FiPS hope to help make your week as entertaining as possible. Welcome to Whassup: Ambiguous Celebration Edition:

* Friday, April 20: Dandy Tickets, Bell House: You're not worth the skinny jeans crushing your balls if you don't have a semi over these words: the Dandy Warhols are playing the 'hood. Tickets for the hipster icons go on sale Friday at noon, for their June 6 show. Snap 'em up! $30.

* Friday, April 20: Lambchop, Bell House: "Nashville's most fucked-up country band" plays the Bell House tomorrow, so if you're into roots music and cuss words (and if you're reading this blog, you're already halfway there), this'll fill up your Friday night nicely. 7:30pm, $20.

* Saturday, April 21: Scrabble for Cheaters, 826NYC (Superhero Shop): Words, cheating, and celebrities come together in one competitive mass for this Scrabble tournament and fundraiser. Peter Dinklage, John Hodgman, and Michael Showalter will be competing alongside our unfamous asses. Contestants raise money toward "cheats" like "invent a word," "buy a vowel," and "punch opponent in nuts" (one of those, I made up. Guess!). Proceeds go toward 826's programs for NYC public schools. 12 noon, $50 registration fee for teams (of two).

* Sunday, April 22: Spoken Word, Freddy's: If you live in Brooklyn, you probably write. Stop telling yourself you'll send it out to publishers "when it's good enough." Share those words with a welcoming audience at this extremely open mic. Poetry, prose, jokes, songs, whatever. 8:45pm, FREE.

* Monday, April 23: Grantland Quarterly, BookCourt: Here in NY, we have so many literary events to choose from, it's a wonder we manage to stay in watching "Russian Dolls" without collapsing from shame. But not many of these events combine the decidedly (usually) un-literary world of sports with words. Grantland, America's favorite middlebrow sports and pop culture website (that-was-spawned-from-ESPN), launches Grantland Quarterly, a collaboration with McSweeney's. Chuck Klosterman and others appear.  7pm-10pm, FREE.

* Tuesday, April 24: GoogaTix, Online: Are you jealous because you didn't get to take part in the clusterfuck that was the Great Googa Mooga's original ticket offering? Well, here's your second chance! More tickets released Tuesday, the day after the music lineups are officially announced. Chances are, they've worked out some of the bugs, but likely not all of them -- so you'll get to swear at your computer screen a bit, which is really the point of all this.