It’s Friday! It cooled down drastically yesterday and it looks like we’ll be in the low 80s for the weekend. Not exactly late July weather for Illinois, but I suppose it beats having tornadoes coming at us from all directions like earlier in the week.

I took a spin over to Plainfield last Tuesday night and caught their weekly car show. When the weather is good they can really pack the downtown with all types of automotive goodness. I had taken a bunch of photos, but after the show when I downloaded the photos I noticed a nasty smudge on the lens that ruined roughly half of them. So… featured today are the ones that weren’t all smudged-up!

Oh, and Sunday Nascar will be in Indy! Looking forward to that one.

Double babes, double jokes, and a bunch of automotive goodness… enjoy!

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It’s Thursday. Die-hard fans of the original Star Trek series better start saving their pennies. In November Captain Kirk’s original phaser and communicator will go up for auction and each item is expected to go for $100,000 to $200,000. Personally, I think they’ll go for much more than that.

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Captain Kirk’s original phaser and communicator on the auction block

Captain Kirk’s original phaser from the 1960s Star Trek series is set to stun bidders at an upcoming auction, along with other iconic props from the final frontier.

The Hollywood Reporter reported that William Shatner’s original phaser and communicator from the classic Star Trek TV series will be up for auction this November. These props, created in 1966 and unseen for over 50 years, will first be displayed at the Comic-Con Museum in San Diego from July 12-28, 2024.

Don Hillenbrand, a Star Trek prop expert, has authenticated the items using a screen-matching method to identify details on the props that match the ones seen in episodes of the show, which ran from 1966 to 1969. The props are believed to have been acquired from a former Paramount Pictures employee by a Hollywood prop veteran.

Julien’s Auctions and TCM will conduct the auction on November 9 in Los Angeles. Each item is estimated to fetch between $100,000 and $200,000.

It’s Wednesday. Sorry for the late update but we had a series of tornados rip through Illinois the other night. The last I heard there were eleven tornadoes confirmed by the National Weather Service. Our place got through it without any damage, but others weren’t as fortunate. There are still large areas without power and Internet service.

Mother Nature can really be a bitch sometimes.

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