The Tough Talk - 6.1

Hit this to Talk Tough Yourself or this for the next Tough Talk (6.2) or take the 'A' Train to the current Tough Talk or to Johnny's, Part Eight or to the previous Tough Talk (6) or to the bunch before that -- Tough Talk (5.4)

Reefer Girl - 01/17/00 18:27:50
The Heat You Pack? high heat

Comments:
I know how you feel, Philosophical Bent. I think it's about enjoying life with someone you love.



Philosophical Bent - 01/16/00 23:28:31
The Heat You Pack? hot question

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What's it all about, Lanalula? Somebody tell me.



Lanalula - 01/16/00 15:14:25
The Heat You Pack? overheated car, coats hung, cold light

Comments:
The next thing. It's on to the next thing. It's a Sunday afternoon in January.



Honeygirl - 01/14/00 15:05:58
The Heat You Pack? In the spirit-lamps of the hop joint behind Weng Fat's on Mott St.

Comments:
Lapis lazuli and amber and sterling look good together by lamp light, at eye level from the prone position. This heavy cuff I found on my tray last month.



Chick in an Ivory Satin Corset - 01/14/00 11:30:47
The Heat You Pack? wasp-waist

Comments:
Fuses blown.



Tough Talk Technician - 01/13/00 17:24:07

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Fuses blowing.



Dr. YaYa, Root Man - 01/11/00 23:48:25
The Heat You Pack? Wrong Root

Comments:
I got the January Limbourg Bros. lapis lazuli blues. Roots not working.



Runner Walker - 01/11/00 18:29:10
The Heat You Pack? cuttin' a breeze in all seasons

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"December" looks like something I saw in Central Park three weeks ago.



Limbourg Bros.' Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry - 01/10/00 18:10:53
The Heat You Pack? the blues and the greens

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Azur d'outreme et vert de flambe. First, January. Last, December.



Johnny Cinema - 01/10/00 09:01:47
The Heat You Pack? Verite, new wave, nouvelle vague

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The Seventeen Best Movies: 17. Hud 16. Road Warrior 15. Chinatown 14. Blade Runner 13. La Dolce Vita 12. La Grande Illusion 11. On the Waterfront 10. Wings of Desire 9. Breathless 8. The Rules of the Game 7. Double Indemnity 6. Breathless 5. Planet of the Apes 4. Sunset Boulevard 3. Godfathers I and II 2. Casablanca 1. Johnny Guitar.



Johnny Guitar - 01/10/00 00:07:26
The Heat You Pack? the western chords

Comments:
You gonna change it, Johnny Staccato?



Johnny Staccato - 01/09/00 19:02:55
The Heat You Pack? a Thompson

Comments:
Johnny Guitar? That's no name.

Hillary Clinton has an 8" dick that hangs down to her knees. So does Joan Crawford in "Johnny Guitar."



Johnny Guitar - 01/09/00 13:02:31
The Heat You Pack? Ride with it across my back. Check it at the saloon.

Comments:
That's big talk for a little gun, Albert. Anybody who calls himself SexyLips is a fag. Don't think any women gonna be flaggin' your train, except maybe to talk about hair or art or make-up.



SexyLips Albert - 01/08/00 19:14:58
The Heat You Pack? flying 'v' rocket

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You got a good woman? You better pin her to your side. Hey, you got a good lady, Johnny? You better pin her to your side, yeah, yeah. Because when she flag my train, buddy, I'm bound to let her ride, well. That's why I wonder...will a matchbox hold my clothes? That's why I wonder, Johnny, would a matchbox hold my clothes? You know I haven't go so many. But I got so far to go.



B. Latta - 01/07/00 15:34:02

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Johnny Rocker should be banned from baseball and then held accountable in a court of law. You can't think like that. You can't talk like that. This is America.



Neal Travis, NY Post - 01/07/00 12:11:08
The Heat You Pack? off the press

Comments:
We have it all over the Times.



Monica Lewinsky - 01/07/00 10:42:13
The Heat You Pack? metabolic

Comments:
I've lost 31 pounds and what I want to do now is meet men. I'm exploring new ways.



Bobby 3-H - 01/07/00 08:46:40
The Heat You Pack? M-16

Comments:
They're gonna examine Johnny Rocker's head.



Johnny Rocker, Atlanta Braves - 01/06/00 20:37:49
The Heat You Pack? 101 mph fastball

Comments:
New York is full of green-haired queers with pierced noses and short illegal aliens. Some of them look like they came from outer space. Where do these people come from? How do they get into this country? Everywhere you look is a 20 year old welfare mother with four pickaninnies hanging onto her. The zoo's everywhere, not just in the Bronx.



Prinsesse Tam-Tam - 01/04/00 08:29:55
The Heat You Pack? Paris, the City of Light

Comments:
I have arrived. Soon I will put on my strut suit. Or appear in La Revue Negre. Instead of viewing, you may read if you would prefer to do that.



JohnnyHimself - 01/04/00 01:17:31
The Heat You Pack? Frisk me, broads.

Comments:
Did somebody call my joint a congregation of fools?



andreadoria - 01/04/00 00:28:50

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It was a chance encounter. He made her do it. It was against her will.



RicoSuave - 01/03/00 23:14:24
The Heat You Pack? I got it.

Comments:
Oh yeah? Well I'm froward and the Lord shines upon me with beautiful and bountiful blessings, like the lips of that chick who just left. Lips of truth.

To the XXXXX *** Get ahold of yourself, baby.

To Red Girl *** There's too many weathermen in here already. We don't need a weatherwoman. You can talk about the weather someplace else. Tell it to somebody else.



XXXXX - 01/03/00 20:32:35

Comments:
Kiss me and press me and squeeze me and tell me you love me and don't ever stop.



Father Mac - 01/03/00 18:15:17
The Heat You Pack? The lip of truth

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Brother Leon, I offer more of the wisdom of Solomon. Perhaps the message will reach Johnny and his congregation of fools. Proverbs 12: "The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble . . . The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame. He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment."



Secret Addiction - 01/03/00 16:01:26
The Heat You Pack? Latent

Comments:
I got through the holidays well. Right after Christmas I went skiing with a nice man, and it was relaxing, invigorating, and cozy. He thinks I'm just "amazing." But I can sense that he wants to get serious and so I've lost it for him. He was like a tail-wagging dog when he saw me off, and now I just want him to disappear and stop bothering me. Last night I did it with a stranger I met at the baggage claim after I landed in the city. It was a chance encounter. He took me into a small, out-of-the-way men's room and then he made me turn around. He made me put my hands up high against the tile and I was squirming. Then he did it to me. The best part was leading up to it. Now here I am back at work and I loathe myself today.



Mr. Lee, Lawyer Man - 01/03/00 13:02:30
The Heat You Pack? Chrysler PT Cruiser, black

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Not this Mr. Lee.



The Bobbettes - 01/03/00 12:38:00
The Heat You Pack? the turn

Comments:
I shot Mr. Lee.



Red Girl - 01/03/00 11:51:02
The Heat You Pack? new horn

Comments:
It's warm today. There's a spring-like rain outside and it's a new year, a new century, a new millenium. It's time for the new hook-up, the new dance.



Risa Tharpe - 01/03/00 08:19:17

Comments:
Sophomoric and misogynistic.



Br. Leon - 01/03/00 00:39:21
The Heat You Pack? Holy Cross

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I am your brother, Father Mac. Psalm 75 -- I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: Lift not up your horn on high: Speak not with a stiff neck. For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one and setteth up another.



Honeygirl - 01/02/00 19:18:00
The Heat You Pack? In the spirit-lamps of the hop joint behind Weng Fat's on Mott St.

Comments:
I like Lee Marvin in Prime Cut and Point Blank.



Warden of the Women's Prison - 01/02/00 18:43:26
The Heat You Pack? stinging

Comments:
And you will call me "Queen Crop".



Father Mac - 01/02/00 16:31:44
The Heat You Pack? Shame shall be the promotion of fools

Comments:
Kid, you and Rico, my sons, have suffered under the influence of Film Noir Johnny long enough. I have watched this foolishness take root and thrive in each empty threat, vain display and outrageous claim you have made since this font first began to pour forth. Take heed the message of Solomon: "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but His secret is with the righteous. The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools."



the kid - 01/02/00 12:56:28
My URL:http://geocities.datacellar.net/MotorCity/Flats/4883/duesy/dmovies.htm
The Heat You Pack? boat-tail trunk and twin pipes

Comments:
Mr. Lee, I own the Speedster and I got your ethnic package right here. Getta load of this ethnic package, Mistah Lee.



slkysstr - 01/01/00 13:20:45
The Heat You Pack? ezee dayy

Comments:
eye-bn wachnnn a lee marvin moveee. mistah leeee.



New Y's Eve Man - 12/31/99 23:20:36
The Heat You Pack? confetti saxophone

Comments:
The greatest American ball-drop narrator was Ben Grauer. It's not Dick Clark.



JohnnyHimself - 12/31/99 18:03:24
The Heat You Pack? Slipped into my alligator belt

Comments:
Midnight in Paris, the City of Light. Rumba Drums pours two glasses of porto from Portugal here on the rooftop of this old rive gauche hotel, the Lutetia. The band, faint from the ballroom below, playing La Marsielles. The bridges and trees lit for miles, as far as the eye can see. A dozen bright ferris wheels. The Eiffel Tower going wild, like a rocket about to blast off into space. Then it becomes an exploding 20th-century power tower.



Nasser Nasif - 12/31/99 17:01:21

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It is the turn of the century in Egypt. It is the new millenium. There are many spotlights on the pyramids of Giza and on the Sphinx. Choirs are singing.



Raw Shuggah - 12/31/99 13:22:55
The Heat You Pack? it tan

Comments:
I squeez yo mamaz Y2K hoochie all nite long, Rico. You talkin' sheah.



RicoSuave - 12/31/99 10:10:20
The Heat You Pack? Natural Salsa

Comments:
I've had it with this "Y2K" term. It's un-American. We talk miles here, not kilometers.



Hassan Habib Salah - 12/31/99 01:43:48
The Heat You Pack? Jihad Osama bin Laden style

Comments:
Fire from the heavens tonight in New York City. Masked Islamic warriors with rocket launchers in all the windows on Wall Street. Fire of Allah in Lincoln Tunnel. Fire of Allah in Holland Tunnel. Large explosions, the collapse of three skyscrapers and the Brooklyn Bridge. We will escape triumphant from LaGuardia or we will eat lamb in paradise.



Mr. Lee - 12/31/99 00:20:30
The Heat You Pack? the retro Chrysler.

Comments:
And I see you got the ethnic package thrown into the deal, Kid.



the kid - 12/30/99 18:23:59
My URL: http://www.duesenbergmotors.com/ROYALTON_SPEEDSTER_ROADSTER_2695.html
The Heat You Pack? itsa duesy

Comments:
i gotta new set of wheels. eat it, dudes.



RicoSuave - 12/30/99 17:00:25
The Heat You Pack? Natural Salsa

Comments:
We don't need any poets in here, Ned Ludd. No Jeremiahs either.



Long Ned Ludd - 12/30/99 12:37:28
The Heat You Pack? the lost heat

Comments:
Look, I hope all computers of the world crash at midnight tomorrow. Bring it on. Let the planes fall from the sky. Let the banks come unglued and the accounts vanish. Let the stoplights go blank and the lovers slip into each other's arms.



William Wallace Robert the Bruce Clendenin - 12/29/99 23:37:54
The Heat You Pack? the spirit of Vercingetorix

Comments:
My new name is Mr. Lee. Lawyer man.



The Bobbettes - 12/29/99 21:28:43
The Heat You Pack? We sing it with conviction and attitude.

Comments:
One two three, look at Mr. Lee. Three four five, look at him jive. Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee. Here come Mr. Lee. He's comin' to me. Come on, Mr. Lee, do your stuff.



JohnnyHimself - 12/29/99 17:35:00
The Heat You Pack? Frisk me, broads.

Comments:
Forget it, Carol Cutrere. Get lost. Whatta you know? Nothing, that's what you know.



Carol Cutrere - 12/29/99 12:44:55
The Heat You Pack? desert skies

Comments:
I was a visitor earlier and signed in as "Arizona Horses." Film Noir Johnny, I think I love you. Your best story is the one barely concealed between the lines. Hold me and kiss me, Bad Man.



Actually/Actually - 12/29/99 08:05:32
The Heat You Pack? talk tic

Comments:
How many times can these people use "actually" in one conversation?



Warden of the Women's Prison - 12/25/99 17:11:04
The Heat You Pack? punishment and caged heat

Comments:
My inmates must select one of these two uniforms and they must wear it right.



RicoSuave - 12/22/99 16:29:48
The Heat You Pack? Natural Salsa

Comments:
You can hence this, George. The French are effete, their culture's dead, they imitate cool Americans, and they won't fight for their country. They stretch out with some cheese and some pate and wait to be saved by the big-band Yanks.



Dr. Georges Schadron - 12/22/99 13:51:14
The Heat You Pack? Universite Catholique de Lille

Comments:
Most Americans born after World War II are lost. They're lost in their own skins. In general, they are rootless, physically removed from family, maintain temporary and constantly changing addresses and phone numbers, have a series of temporary acquaintances they call friends, and no real centre as individuals. There is very little there except a yearning to be something else. Hence, their ever-changing ideas about, and preoccupation with, homelessness. Hence, the very high proportions of neurosis, psychosis, anxiety, ennui, depression, and general malaise within the population. Hence, their ever-growing list of "disorders." Americans have only an "identity of the moment," based upon whatever media image or vision they're adapting this month, this year. Their lives are perpetual "reinvention."



Wagnerian Brunnhildes - 12/21/99 21:37:51
The Heat You Pack? The Big Heat

Comments:
We'll slap you around, Johnny.



JohnnyHimself - 12/21/99 18:34:49
The Heat You Pack? Opera at the Met

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The women in the crowd behind the ropes were squealing and squirming as we stepped out of the Bugatti, into the spotlights, and headed into Lincoln Center. Some reporter asked me if I expected Gatsby to top Tristan. I told him yeah, I expect that. "This one's American," I said, "not some buncha Brunhildas."

Inside, most of the broads on stage looked good, only three or four fat ones, there were some good parties, and the music was good. But this tenor who sings Gatsby, Jerry Hadley, needs to be replaced with some baritone and they're gonna have to rewrite the part. This Opera-Gatsby isn't Fitzgerald's Gatsby. They got him in some pink suit and he looks like a barker.



GoneLikeATrain - 12/20/99 02:02:02
The Heat You Pack? cast this

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Arnold Stang is right for the part.



andreadoria - 12/19/99 19:10:09

Comments:
They've done this before, Secret Reader. Then, it was either James Woods or Nick Nolte. Someone even said Tim Roth, and there was a vote for Samuel L. Jackson.



Secret Reader - 12/19/99 10:43:56
The Heat You Pack? Casting skill

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In the film version, Michael Wincott (Metro, Romeo Is Bleeding) must play Johnny. No one else is a contender. He was Moxica in "Conquest of Paradise" and his name was Top Dollar in "The Crow."



JohnnyHimself - 12/18/99 11:33:06
The Heat You Pack? The Jazz Age, the foghorns of Long Island Sound

Comments:
Steppin' out Monday night. Cruising up to Lincoln Center in a green Bugatti for the Gatsby premiere. Gonna wear my Meyer Wolfsheim molar cufflinks and some white spats. All the broads at the Met will go wild. Got two complimentary tickets from this Susan Graham chick, the mezzo-soprano singing Jordan Baker. She's been slipping into my joint lately after rehearsals, and she tells me the story's about some sap. Jazz score and some American Weltschmerz, she says. What's American Weltschmerz?



Secret Addiction - 12/14/99 11:19:41
The Heat You Pack? Fever of 102

Comments:
I didn't go to work today. I said I had the flu.



John Willie - 12/13/99 19:02:13
The Heat You Pack? Forbidden heat

Comments:
You shouldn't view this. You shouldnt look at this either.



Bobby Three-Heads - 12/10/99 01:30:09
The Heat You Pack? M-16

Comments:
So just after midnight these chicks flashing fat reefers walk in, looking for Johnny.



NeuroLabs Inc. - 12/09/99 17:27:38
The Heat You Pack? Genetic Saxophone

Comments:
Our research indicates that 63% of Americans are born with "Harlem Nocturne" hardwired into their nervous systems and brain circuitry, so that when each individual hears it for the first time it is always deja vu.



Johnny Nocturne (Firmin) - 12/09/99 00:54:09
The Heat You Pack? I'd take your joint by storm. You got that?

Comments:
You got no style, Film Noir Johnny.



JohnnyHimself - 12/08/99 22:36:30
The Heat You Pack? Hank Ballard and the Midnighters music

Comments:
Johnny Nocturne, you can take your problem to the United Nations. That Chocolatta you got your saxophone around? I taught her how to sing the same way Ike taught Tina how to sing. You got that, Torpedo-Head?



Johnny Nocturne (Firmin) - 12/08/99 18:07:02
The Heat You Pack? San Francisco Jump-Swing Heat

Comments:
People have been confusing me with you, and I'm not flattered. I've also been getting e-mail addressed to you and I've read it. So I suggest that you change your name. I'll give you a day, maybe two. Then, trouble. I'm no one to mess with.



Secret Addiction - 12/07/99 23:44:45
The Heat You Pack? Latent

Comments:
You meet a man. You hook up. It's only natural.



Little Richard - 12/07/99 18:25:39
The Heat you Pack? Oh My Soul!

Comments:
The Girl Can't Help It.



Ellen_Stewart - 12/05/99 01:52:39
The Heat You Pack? the heat of imagination

Comments:
Eva Maria should be in one of the booths over there, doing it in the shadows thrown by the candles and the yellow lampshades of Johnny's Lounge.



Katarina Baader - 12/04/99 19:32:44
The Heat You Pack? Teutonic

Comments:
For heaven's sake, let's fall in love. It's no mistake to call it love.



Got Questions - 12/04/99 11:12:13
The Heat You Pack? cat curiosity

Comments:
With the eyes as vulnerable as they are, why aren't more people blinded?



Casbah LeMoko - 11/26/99 01:11:30
The Heat You Pack? New kind

Comments:
Just flew into LaGuardia. Foggy night out this taxi window. Chilly breezes and gusts. Headed for the Paramount.



Carmen Lopez - 11/24/99 14:54:47
The Heat You Pack? Scholarly

Comments:
What an outrageous and inflammatory thing to say, Li Yung-Li! Everyone lies about sex, as you of all people should know. You are puritanical, you are judgmental, and you are very un-hip --- all undesirable qualities to find in a psychiatrist.



monogamist miss - 11/24/99 12:54:03
The Heat You Pack? beating heart

Comments:
Maybe, ms. li-y-li, we're all serial monogamists until we have reason not to be.



Li Yung-Li, MD and PhD - 11/24/99 12:04:42
The Heat You Pack? $165/hr

Comments:
Over the past two decades it has become fashionable for single women to advertise themselves as serial monogamists. The term sounds good to enlightened and progressive men during the early phase of a relationship, when sexual histories are being exchanged; and it will do the job until the couple gets to know each other and the truth comes out .... as it will. I advise my clients never to use the term. Sooner or later the man will get the story, and it's a bad idea to begin a relationship with a lie.



Casbah LeMoko - 11/23/99 13:33:33
The Heat You Pack? North African. Algiers.

Comments:
Warm night in the Casbah. Big moon over the city.



Blue Lou - 11/23/99 13:09:09

Comments:
Everybody in this joint is a two-timin' jaybird.



Doctor YaYa, Root Man - 11/23/99 12:38:29
The Heat You Pack? BigLegMama Root

Comments:
I am the Ebonical Mastah.



Ellen_Stewart - 11/23/99 12:00:20
The Heat You Pack? Derringer, .38 two-shot

Comments:
You seem well-schooled in ebonics, Two-Timin' Jaybird.



Casbah LeMoko - 11/21/99 19:39:40
The Heat You Pack? North African. Algiers.

Comments:
Dodging the law. Tight, winding streets. Doorway into doorway.



RicoSuave - 11/21/99 13:51:39
The Heat You Pack? Big-Bed Breeze

Comments:
The weathermen sound like a bunch of fags, a bunch of fresh-pressed fruit. I got this married chick who sneaked over last night and who likes to be indoors with the windows open. We can't get outta bed. A cigarette every now and then. Still drinkin' coffee.



Sleepy/Lazy - 11/21/99 13:14:54
The Heat You Pack? Long chair, big book of black and white airplane photos, fresh-pressed apples

Comments:
Sunny, mild, and sweet afternoon. Full moon Tuesday night.



Two-Timin' Jaybird - 11/20/99 19:18:14
The Heat You Pack? fine-lookin' animal

Comments:
All the birdz on Daybreak Street know when Two-Timin' Jaybird walk by.

Dark streets. Fog. Crime. Greed. Passion. Treachery. Betrayal.

Hit this to Talk Tough Yourself or this for the next Tough Talk (6.2) or take the 'A' Train to the current Tough Talk or to Johnny's, Part Eight or shoot to the previous Tough Talk (6) or to the bunch before that -- Tough Talk (5.4)

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