Black Jack Justice (38) - Auld Lang Syne

Decoder Ring Theatre

Gregg Taylor

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4.8 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2010

⏱️ 28 minutes

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There are few things that cry out for introspection quite like the passing of one year into the next. A time when the rustle of lost illusions crackles underfoot, like a handful of dead leaves in the wind. When past, present and future come together for a single moment to blow a raspberry at you in the shaving mirror. A time when even the handful of thing you might have been sure of shift underfoot, and send you sliding down the slipperly slope to nowhere in particular. And when that moment comes, even the most hard-boiled of gumshoes can spare a moment for... Auld Lang Syne

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0:00.0	Once again, Decoder Ring Theater presents another page from the casebook of that Master of Mystery,
0:07.8	that's Sultan of Sleothing, Martin Bracknell's immortal detective, Black Jack Justice,
0:13.2	starring Christopher Mott as Jack and Andrea Lyons as Trixie Dixon Girl Detective.
0:26.9	The name's Justice.
0:28.6	Jack Justice.
0:32.0	There are a few things that cry out for introspection quite as strongly as the passing of one year into the next.
0:35.3	An artificial milestone, to be sure, but aren't they all?
0:38.8	There is no denying the revelation amidst revelry that the earth has run its course around the
0:43.0	sun once again, carrying you as a passenger without a ticket or a destination. It forces a fellow
0:48.4	to answer the musical question, just what are you doing here, son? And do so after a few, well,
0:54.0	meaning cocktails. i have always felt
0:56.2	that it is this nagging question that leads to the fever of frivolity that people call new year's eve
1:01.3	the city shuts down for one giant soire that becomes a debauch that becomes a drunken brawl and for what
1:07.6	to celebrate the promise of a new year or or to desperately, if belatedly,
1:12.6	attempt to inject some passion into the old one. It was a fool's road to remorse, and I had long
1:18.1	ago given it up. This had been my policy for many a year, and it had stood me in good stead.
1:24.5	Thing is, there was an X-factor in my life just now, "'and it was playing havoc with my seasonal expectations.
1:30.4	"'I'd had turkey for Thanksgiving dinner instead of Scotch.
1:34.1	"'Okay, I had turkey then Scotch,
1:36.4	"'but this was still pretty Norman Rockwell by my standards.
1:40.1	"'I shared a cozy Christmas with the same X-Factor,
1:42.9	"'a certain brunette that could stop your heart and then start it again, since she happened to be a nurse. Convenient.
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