Don’t worry, it’s a short list.

Watch Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts on HBO.  Holy shit is it amazing.  If you don’t have HBO, invite yourself over to watch it at the home of someone who does.  It may take several viewings.  Bring some pizza and beer, they won’t mind.  Drinking game: you have to chug whenever a New Orleans native says something “colorful”.  Bring your overnight bag.

Vote on this year’s Quill Awards, the “American Idol” of book awards.  Some of the categories even have legit titles nominated.  For example, the Young Adult section includes both King Dork and The Book Thief.  The Tender Bar is also nominated, as is the former “next President of the United States“.  Remember to be pissed in October when Marley and Me wins the Book of the Year.

“Discuss your favourites” for this year’s Man Booker Prize on their new forums.