We're not really hard-core trekkies at Awesome Avenue, in fact the William Shatner Priceline ads are starting to irritate us.  No honest pop culture enthusiast or critic can deny the role that Star Trek has played in this society and others around the world since the show first aired on CBS back in the 60s.  Many of you will recall the show was not particularly successful at the time. 

Awesome Avenue has brought in some unique Star Trek merchandise.   We have a number of t-shirts.   Recently we brought in some items which you might call toys, or might think of as interesting desktop items.   We have a replica Communicator, a replica Phaser Gun, and a 40th Anniversary Commemorative Edition model Starship Enterprise made by the classic English scale model house, Corgi.  For the right enthusiast, or the right client, it certainly can make a handsome office decoration. 

Check out our website for full details on these and other Star Trek items.   As always, we only sell quality, officially licensed items here on Awesome Avenue.  We can't quite get these things to you at warp speed, but standard shipping is free and we can send things overnight at an extra charge.   Sorry, we don't beam merchandise.

We're probably the last people who should be making any comments on anything that has to do with the NCAA.   David follows tennis (just ask him about the US Open), and I follow baseball mostly (don't ask me about the Dodgers).   In fact, I can tell you more about baseball in Japan then I can about college sports.  

But it's not about us. Awesome Avenue has a number of retro-inspired college t-shirts from a few Big 10 and Pac 10 schools.  Hey, were in LA and the Rose Bowl is just over the horizon.  Check out our Michigan State and Ohio State T-shirts, as well as USC and UCLA-the local favorites.   The UCLA and Michigan State shirts aren't specific to any sport, so if ice hockey or track and field is your thing, they're not only stylin' but appropriate. 

As always, free shipping for standard service here on Awesome Avenue, and we can do overnight shipping at extra charge if you must have it by kickoff.

David, our founder and buyer for the store, was in Las Vegas earlier this week at the Project trade show.  It was very hot and smoke from the fires surrounding LA was visible in the air over the Valley of the Sun, some 200 miles away.  Some TV reports I saw had the smoke partially blocking out the sun as far as Denver.   Yesterday I was in Chinatown here in Los Angeles and 5pm looked like 7pm, as the smoke eclipsed the sun.

This posting will mostly have nothing to do with fashion, music or pop culture. It's about Labor Day  It's been interesting being in Los Angeles this past week, the dog days of August/first week of September, the scene was at times apocalyptic, as this time-lapse video clip shows.   This weekend, while many of us will enjoy a long weekend with BBQs, trips to the beach or lakes, many will toil in relative obscurity in shops, restaurants, hotels, gas stations, hospitals and airports to make our long weekend possible.  In this part of the country, the labor of a few truly make this weekend possible, and I think the television pictures over the last week make it clear who I am referring to.

Labor Day is about different things to different people.  I think this year it is about sacrifice and dedication, at least for us here at Awesome Avenue.