Living Social and Whole Foods!

Holy crap, people! The Living Social deal of the day is a $20 gift certificate to Whole Foods for $10! Even at Whole Foods prices, that's a good deal. I think this one's nationwide, and not just limited to Boston.

Dear MTV:

Are you seriously bumping back tonight's episode of Awkward -- one that follows last week's game changer of an episode -- so you can run an extended edition of Teen Mom?

Awkward represents what little hope for decent programming exists on the network (even if you deliberately keep it out of prime time). Teen Mom represents everything awful about what MTV has become. You've already clearly figured out that you don't want to be a music network (and, btw, we all figured that out years before you did), but you still don't seem to know if you actually want to be good.

Speaking of deal sites

Everyone knows about Bookperk, right? The deals are decent, but also often include autographed books (like the current Michael Chabon) for those that like them, and many deals include free shipping. Current deals include Chabon's Awesome Man, some Big Nate books, a bundle of Epic Fail and Pride and Prejudice, and more.