But can a blog replace a tooth?

The power of blogging was never more powerful than last Friday morning, when I dashed outside to snap a photo -- when out of nowhere, the guy from Neighborhood Services drove up and posted his notice. All I had to do was think about publishing it to this blog, and he showed up.

Much faster than it took the Free Market System to produce a new business in the old "Rally's" hamburger stand on South Illinois Ave. But praise be to Dan Terry (owner of the Newell House restaurant) for opening a new coffee and food spot in that prime location (right next to Friendship Park), which has been boarded up for several years. The building has now been spiffed up and . . . should be open for business very soon.

It's funny how so many of the things called for and bitched about in this blog have either come about, or been improved over time. This is one of the themes of my 'blook'-in-progress . . . Zeitgeist power. . . . Remember the "Blight Spots"? Not many of the originals remain, but some new ones have sprung down (so to speak) -- like the old Tuscan Lodge bldg. (formerly Cousins and Jeremiah's). That old building will be going down, unless some miracle (such as a "We Are the Lodge" hip-hop fundraiser) occurs to raise the quarter-mill or so it would take to refurbish it.

But what about the Hickory Lodge? What's going down with that? No one seems to know when the judge's ruling will be given.

Tooth in Advertising

And what about my missing front tooth? What will be constructed in its place? How will it be paid for? Since it was already an amalgam filling, it doesn't qualify for a State Historical Tooth Grant, and my Bloggers' Dental Insurance, doesn't cover dental work -- just paste and floss.

I could put a PayPal link on this blog for donations. If a dude can trade a paper clip for house on the internet, then I might be able to raise enough money to buy a tooth, by selling advertising on it. A donation of $1250, could get the donor's name or business logo displayed in that space. Am I serious? Make me an offer! I want to get it fixed. I might be willing to have a message like "Buy Penn's Luminous City on Amazon.Com" or "This Tooth Sponsored by a Charitable Donation from the Tooth Fairy" (Probably need teeth the size of Matt Dillon's in "Something About Mary" for those, but you get the idea.)

I could add one of those donation drive measuring sticks, using a giant tooth instead of a thermometer, to show how much $ is raised.