The stand in a Chevron parking lot is near a water park, a youth services center and a skateboard park. Seattle Times reporter Nicole Tsong has the details.

Joerael Julian Elliott, art director for Dubsea Coffee in White Center, submitted this lovely gobbler in the growing turkey latte art throwdown. One more, and we'll have enough for a vote!

Check out other turkey latte art contenders from El Diablo Coffee on Queen Anne, Fremont Coffee and Starbucks'/Bellissimo's Jared Mockli.

Peet's Coffee & Tea originally agreed to pay $26 a share for Diedrich Coffee earlier this month. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters upped the ante to $30 a share. Now Peet's is willing to pay $32 a share, which comes to about $265 million, according to Bloomberg.

Green Mountain is the Vermont company that paid $40.3 million for Tully's Coffee's wholesale business earlier this year.

It's just another menu choice for the Seattle blogger at HugeAssCity.com who was forced to visit McDonald's after strolling up to a Starbucks drive-through window and being told, "We can't serve you. You need to be in a car."

McDonald's 191 locations in western Washington are among the first in the country to offer McCafe Frappes, the burger chain's answer to the Starbucks Frappuccino.

After years of experimenting with espresso drinks, McDonald's began selling them in all its U.S. restaurants this year, and recently said it's taken the McCafe to Europe.

The Frappes will be in about 1,600 U.S. McDonald's until next summer, when they roll out nationally. They come in mocha and caramel flavors, and a small costs about $2.29, depending on which shop you visit.

Despite its move into Starbucks territory, including aggressive coffee advertising, McDonald's last month experienced its first dip in U.S. same-store sales since March 2008, Reuters reported.

(Photo courtesy of McDonald's, and thanks to Eric for the drive-through find.)

These jobs are not to be confused with that of Twitter master, which Brad Nelson already has.

Both require "seasoned, digital strategists who are passionate about ideating." (Which may or may not be like George W. Bush's strategery or misunderestimating.)

Despite their silly verbs, the media team at Starbucks is serious. Once it decided to take Facebook seriously, the company quickly became its No. 1 brand; it has 521,899 followers (and counting) on Twitter, and the company now projects all Twitter posts (also known as "tweets") onto a wall at headquarters.

Here are further, very similar job descriptions for the social media and digital strategy managers.

(Thank you, David, for finding this!)

Update 11/23/09: Ideate is actually a word. Apologies for my snarkiness, although I still think it's a word that shouldn't be used often, especially in talking about passion.

Maybe smackdown isn't the best word for a Thanksgiving theme? Then again, with 273 million turkeys "produced" (a.k.a. "smacked down") nationally this year, most of them for Thanksgiving, maybe it is.

Here's a gorgeous "live" turkey from Warren at El Diablo Coffee on Queen Anne:

Check out earlier gobblers from Fremont Coffee and Jared Mockli.

Remember back in 2006, when Starbucks had to cancel coupons for free iced coffee after they were forwarded throughout the Western Hemisphere?

It seemed the company didn't have a firm grasp on the power of e-mail.

Now comes another possible glitch.

With the advent of its new frequent-buyer program, Starbucks will nix the 10 percent discount that Gold Card carriers have gotten, once their current year of membership ends. They don't dig that and appear to have found a way around it.

A reader e-mailed me to say that Gold Card carriers who lose their cards -- or break them, or whatever -- and get new ones are finding the expiration dates are reset to one year from their first use of the replacement card.

"Starbucks is not able to assign the expiration date from the original card to the new replacement card," this person wrote.

That means "if a customer has their card replaced between now and their expiration date, the replacement Gold Card will actually have a year membership from the date the customer first uses the new card."

Whatever you think of the potential lying and stealing, why can't Starbucks set the expiration dates properly?

Update at 1:45 p.m. on 11/20/09: A Starbucks spokesman just wrote to say they've fixed the problem.

That's from about $10,000 in fiscal 2009, when the Starbucks CEO requested that it be reduced to the minimum necessary for him to continue receiving health-care and other benefits. Schultz's salary for the previoust few years had been $1.2 million.

His total compensation in fiscal 2008 was $9.7 million. We're still waiting for a proxy filing to find out what it was in fiscal 2009, when he was not eligible for a standard bonus but did receive stock options, making his pay directly tied to Starbucks' stock performance. Shares rose 40 percent during Starbucks' fiscal 2009.

The pay information came from a Starbucks spokeswoman, not a securities filing. A slew of filings this evening reveal stock options for the company's top executives for fiscal 2010. They vest over four years and, unlike the restricted stock units executives received last week, they will have to pay something for these -- $22.06 a share -- when they exercise them.

Here's who got what, filing by filing.