Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 18, 2022

Fletcher Street! Love it.

“He’s bringing in Jamaican Blue Mountain!”

Good morning™, everyone!

Isn’t that guy supposed to be called “Lugi” or is that a different associate that he has?

I wonder who his connection is. That is the critical thing.

The French Roast Connection!

Nice car, looks like my 89 Bonneville!

LawrenceS started to sing about 9 hours ago

If anyone was interested in the song… I downloaded it from YouTube, where is had sketchy information on the origin. It was titled ‘The Espresso Song’ but I just discovered it has since been taken down and Shazam draws a blank when I ask it to identify the artist. (There is another song or two called ‘The Espresso Song,’ but neither is the one I’m referring to.) Google can’t find a page with the lyrics either. If I hadn’t downloaded it for proof I might think I’d imagined it.

Well, put it up at a site that is linkable, or send it here (email at profile) and I can “flickr” it.

Good morning™, withdrawal symptoms ! …which have not started to appear yet but mark my word, he will start percolating madly if his “connection” doesn’t have a pot going when he and Loogy show up.

Is Fletcher Street and Main where the park is that Pouch hangs out at?

If the henchman is Luigi, should the connection be Mario?

Looks like this storyline is going to pot … (of coffee)…

Yes, the original Lugi got killed when Coffeyhead was arrested by Tracy long ago!!

I thought his connection was at Lexington 125.

Meet his connection? I saw him today at the reception……

If this guy needs coffee every hour, what happens if he skips a dose?

“Nobody likeah Luigi”

He has those rare coffee beans that have been through a specific species’ digestive tract!

Folks in Rhode Island (and North Attleboro, MA) have several choices for their Coffee Connection.

there’s snow on the ground, falling form the sky and luigi is wearing just a t-shirt????

Someone gave Luigi an “I” for his birthday??

For Gweedo and anyone else from Colorado:

Aurora, that suburb east of Denver that wants to overshadow it, once upon a time, was called Fletcher, Colorado.

(Hope that‘s at least something interesting to come out of today‘s installment=

*1-LUIGI: You call for an Uber?

2-MR. COFFEE HEAD: Yeah. Get me outta here.

LUIGI: Ummm, customers are forbidden to ride in the front seat for safety reasons. It’s one of the… COFFEE: SHADDAP!

3-LUIGI: OK, you entered that you want to go to Fletcher and Main to “meet your connection”. It’s not really necessary to indicate the reason for your destination and in this case – very unadvisable.

COFFEE: Good to know. So you’re saying that my nightly request of LORD TAKE ME DOWNTOWN, I’M JUST LOOKIN’ FOR SOME TUSH is unnecessarily specific?

LUIGI: Uh yeah. I’d suggest you just enter your desired destination as LA GRANGE. All the drivers know what that means…

(You ZZ TOPP fans “know what I’m talkin’ about _A HAW HAW HAW!”)

To anyone offended by my suggestion to Neil yesterday that studying Cathode Ray Tubes was not a good idea, I apologize. HOWEVER, I still believe it inadvisable to study such an outdated technology. I guess a lot of you still have old computer monitors…

I saw him today at the reception

A cup of joe in his hand

I knew he would meet his connection

At his feet was his haf-caf mug

No, you can’t always get what you want

You can’t always get what you want

You can’t always get what you want

But if you try sometime you’ll find

You get what you need

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Coffyhead claimed that the coffee over at Coffee Howz was “stale,” but I think the truth is that, like any addict, his need for coffee stimulation is only getting more intense over time. The stuff for normies that coffee shops sell has to meet the standards of the local health department, and that won’t cut it for him anymore. He’s got to go meet his street-corner “connection,” a guy who’s got a black-market espresso machine set up at Fletcher and Main that does things to a coffee bean that science cannot fully explain and definitely can’t recommend.

An A plus for them….they put on their seat belts.

Of course, his connection?

Now it can be told…if I am understanding the comment of JoshHere, these two are descendants of CoffyHead and Lugui. As opposed to being called junior, they must have been named after their fathers. Lugiui has an extra alphabet in his name so he’ll stand apart.

“Fletcher Street and Main. I’ve got to meet my connection”. I trust his connection won’t be in a park selling balloons by chance.

Nay….it couldn’t be….don’t tell me….I told you not to tell me….his connection is the singer who was last seen auditioning at Vitamin’s theater.

Neat car: no visible door-lines…..like Klaatu’s on his handy-dandy flying saucer……….

Hoo,boy.I hope Curtis hasn’t made the same mistake Collins did.

The original Lugi(not Luigi) is DEAD FISH DEAD;killed injailbreak attempt in Late 1947.Since Coffeyhead may have hunted an an “old days impersonator” doesn’t lookgood for his sense of morality.

Old style car.No “outer space” multiple control board

Well,we’ll soon see if “Pothead” has returned to crime.There are no roUND lines in t hat head.Draw him with a ruler.

The Brow’s Son was “peacefully retired” too,and look what Curtis did with him/to him?!

MOVIE QUOTE:

“I got the razor,the shaving lather,and the smelling salts”

“What are the smelling salts for?”

“I faint at the sight of blood”

Rags Ragland&Lou Costello—ABBOTT&COSTELLO IN HOLLYWOOD—1945

coffee connection?

Is it just me, or am I the only one very disappointed with NO case wrapups after a story is over? Just ZAP story’s over, no “what happened to Ape and Ferret?” NOPE we gotta get to a NEW story before the old one has had time to settle.

TAKING Monday off from my work computer—-will be back chattering on Tuesday.

Will Tonsils 2 poke himself in his good eye waving his arms around?

Will the plot with Coffyhead boil over?

Will Fred Astaire sing “Coffee Time”?(From a forgotten1950 movie).

And where is Zabu?(A rare minority group characterfor the 1940’s).

“And don’t call me Boss!”

“Criminals are a superstitious lot!!’ Jackets are not cool!!

Luigi is the wheelman for Coffyhead, who has to see his connection. What does this signify? Smuggling in precious coffee beans? Or has C-head shifted from caffeine to some other Drug of Choice?

And, yes, nice tribute to Rick Fletcher.

BTW, my favorite coffeeshop back in the town where I used to work imports its own coffee beans after having inspected the growing plots in Central America, and then grinds its own fresh. The grindery, around the corner from the coffeeshop itself, also sells fresh beans or fresh ground coffee to folks who want to brew their own at home….

The last time I saw Coffeehead was when Angel Flattop was planning on killing Tracy and gave him warnings while on a cross train trip with Diet Smith. We got to see Pear Shape, Influence and several others that had reformed and a few who didn’t.