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Yesterday, Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell held a press conference to mark the start of a 30-day countdown to the transition from analog to digital television. Most local stations will cease their analog broadcasts at 9 a.m. on June 12, 2009; others will close out their analog broadcasts earlier.

MONSTER MASH: Everyone's favorite non-robotic, non-dinosar body of awesome, a.k.a. the ferocious, hard-banging electronica/hiphop group Truckasaurus, is playing at Neumos with Head Like A Kite and Slender Means on Saturday. Heads up--Truckasaurus might be a band and not a car-eating machine, but they can still metaphorically smash your face in with their thumping, crunching, stomping version of music. It's beautiful, too. Imagine that!

Yes, Starbucks fucked up. Their "complimentary iced grande beverage" email coupon rapidly escalated beyond its intended audience, to no-one's surprise but Starbucks management's. They're embarrassed, and they should be -- it's a rookie Internet mistake, the kind of thing that we associate with the wild-'n'-woolly days of early '00 or so.

If your workplace is anything like Seattlest's, you've seen this free iced grande beverage coupon a few times already. If you're as skeptical as Seattlest, you double-checked with Snopes to make sure it was legit. And you discovered that yay, it was legit! (Actually, if you're like Seattlest, you wished it was for a free Tazo lemonade because you don't drink coffee.)