Phil Austin
June 21, 2015 7:13 PM Subscribe
This year marked the debut of the Nick Danger Award for best mystery/detective audio drama. Very sad that Phil won't be around to hear future winners.
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(slightly self-linky disclosure that I am involved with the Mark Time Awards, though I did not judge the Nick Danger group.)
posted by DiscourseMarker at 7:38 PM on June 21, 2015
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(slightly self-linky disclosure that I am involved with the Mark Time Awards, though I did not judge the Nick Danger group.)
posted by DiscourseMarker at 7:38 PM on June 21, 2015
He's no fun, he . right over.
posted by delfin at 7:47 PM on June 21, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by delfin at 7:47 PM on June 21, 2015 [7 favorites]
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posted by maggiemaggie at 7:57 PM on June 21, 2015
posted by maggiemaggie at 7:57 PM on June 21, 2015
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posted by njohnson23 at 8:11 PM on June 21, 2015
posted by njohnson23 at 8:11 PM on June 21, 2015
Shoes for Industry, Shoes for the . .
posted by Death and Gravity at 8:17 PM on June 21, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by Death and Gravity at 8:17 PM on June 21, 2015 [6 favorites]
UNHAPPY MACNAM.
posted by enjoymoreradio at 9:04 PM on June 21, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by enjoymoreradio at 9:04 PM on June 21, 2015 [5 favorites]
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posted by philip-random at 9:19 PM on June 21, 2015
posted by philip-random at 9:19 PM on June 21, 2015
Goodbye, ["uh, Clem"]. Thanks.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:27 PM on June 21, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:27 PM on June 21, 2015 [9 favorites]
It feels like my heart is being kicked by the entire chorus line at Minsky's.
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posted by bakerina at 9:32 PM on June 21, 2015 [5 favorites]
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posted by bakerina at 9:32 PM on June 21, 2015 [5 favorites]
You must mean the old same place. It's around back. Here's the key.
posted by cleroy at 10:02 PM on June 21, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by cleroy at 10:02 PM on June 21, 2015 [4 favorites]
I believe I've touched on this at Me-Fi before, but it bears repeating. The "random" part of the philip-random moniker is directly attributable to the Firesign Theater, specifically a character from In the Next World You're on Your Own whose first name was Random. I figured if it could be a first name, why not a last name?
So yeah, Mr. Austin's is a passing I feel more than most. The cool weird uncle I never actually got to meet. Maybe in the next world.
posted by philip-random at 10:18 PM on June 21, 2015 [5 favorites]
So yeah, Mr. Austin's is a passing I feel more than most. The cool weird uncle I never actually got to meet. Maybe in the next world.
posted by philip-random at 10:18 PM on June 21, 2015 [5 favorites]
This news is hitting me like a hot kiss at the end of a wet fist
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posted by jabo at 10:33 PM on June 21, 2015 [7 favorites]
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posted by jabo at 10:33 PM on June 21, 2015 [7 favorites]
No Anchovies? You got the wrong man, I spell my name Danger!
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posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:55 PM on June 21, 2015 [3 favorites]
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posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:55 PM on June 21, 2015 [3 favorites]
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He really might now be in two places at once. Probably in at least one of them he’s hanging out with Marx and Lennon.
posted by LeLiLo at 11:33 PM on June 21, 2015 [4 favorites]
He really might now be in two places at once. Probably in at least one of them he’s hanging out with Marx and Lennon.
posted by LeLiLo at 11:33 PM on June 21, 2015 [4 favorites]
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"All right, sir, may I take your hat and goat?" [baaaah]
posted by On the Corner at 12:23 AM on June 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
"All right, sir, may I take your hat and goat?" [baaaah]
posted by On the Corner at 12:23 AM on June 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
The Firesign Theatre have set up a Memorial Guestbook page on their site.
posted by On the Corner at 12:36 AM on June 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by On the Corner at 12:36 AM on June 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
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posted by Smart Dalek at 2:12 AM on June 22, 2015
posted by Smart Dalek at 2:12 AM on June 22, 2015
Phil Austin has walked into the Pearly Gates. ("Ow, my nose!")
See you on the other side of the record, Mr. Danger.
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posted by Faint of Butt at 4:25 AM on June 22, 2015 [3 favorites]
See you on the other side of the record, Mr. Danger.
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posted by Faint of Butt at 4:25 AM on June 22, 2015 [3 favorites]
Sad thing is that as a Firesign fan AND an Intellivision owner, I have a second reason to be sad.
BEE SEVEN TEEN BOMMMMMBER. THAT WAS NAWT THE TAWR-GIT!
posted by delfin at 4:48 AM on June 22, 2015
BEE SEVEN TEEN BOMMMMMBER. THAT WAS NAWT THE TAWR-GIT!
posted by delfin at 4:48 AM on June 22, 2015
Ah man. Firesign theater was hugely influential in my youth. I was a bored kid stuck in farm country, knowing nothing, watching the world pass me by. I discovered them through a middle school teacher, who of course was right out of college and terribly cool and knew all the good stuff. So I started listening to the records because they were weird and different and it took several listenings before I started to penetrate the outer layer and get all the elliptical callbacks and inside references and odd history jokes and find it really, really funny - but I could never get anyone around me to get that they were funny. On first listening, everyone was just confused.
So I was like the one 12-year old kid in rural Virginia who was totally into their work, and never caught on that I was supposed to be totally stoned and that would make it immediately funny.
posted by Naberius at 6:25 AM on June 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
So I was like the one 12-year old kid in rural Virginia who was totally into their work, and never caught on that I was supposed to be totally stoned and that would make it immediately funny.
posted by Naberius at 6:25 AM on June 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
The True White Brother is coming home. Remember what the Great Spirit said? If we did what we were supposed to do, and lived according to the Plan, White Brother would finish his work in the East and come back to us.
posted by mondo dentro at 6:46 AM on June 22, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by mondo dentro at 6:46 AM on June 22, 2015 [4 favorites]
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posted by the sobsister at 9:37 AM on June 22, 2015
posted by the sobsister at 9:37 AM on June 22, 2015
My friends and I put on a production of Nick Danger for a jr high talent show. That started a life-long trend of doing things only I and my friends think is funny.
Ruthlessly and doggedly:
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posted by lumpenprole at 11:22 AM on June 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
Ruthlessly and doggedly:
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posted by lumpenprole at 11:22 AM on June 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
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posted by uhclem at 7:01 AM on June 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by uhclem at 7:01 AM on June 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
My father introduced me to Firesign Theatre, and has made a point of how prescient they have turned out to be. I played "Temporarily Humboldt County" to my roommate, and asked him to guess when it was released. His guess was about 30 years off the mark.
posted by enjoymoreradio at 9:56 AM on July 17, 2015
posted by enjoymoreradio at 9:56 AM on July 17, 2015
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posted by Confess, Fletch at 7:19 PM on June 21, 2015