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Episode 409 - Yesterday Was Monday (Patreon)

Published:
2018-06-29 01:03:18
Edited:
2019-01-04 03:35:29
Imported:
2021-07

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We make up for missing time by covering Yesterday Was Monday by Theodore Sturgeon!

Special thanks to reader Jeff C. Carter. Check out the Six Demon Bag Podcast!

Here's that Twilight Zone episode: A Matter of Minutes 

Next up: DAGONIAD by Michael Shea!

Comments

Anonymous

Personally, I imagine the "certain others" might just be the readers. I rather like the idea; these people could be stringing together days to form the contents of all kinds of fiction set in the "real" world for our enjoyment, with this tale comprising a behind-the-scenes special feature.

Kit Ainslie

I’m really looking forward to this episode! If anyone wants to discuss it or the story on Reddit I’ve been given the green light by Chris and Chad to run r/WitchHouseMedia.

Richard Horsman

In re Harlan Ellison who comes up in the Sturgeon bio segment: looks like we lost him today unfortunately. Maybe one of his weirder stories in the nearish future? I'm a huge fan of "The Deathbird" but there's plenty of options.

Anonymous

King's "The Langoliers" seems like a non-theistic more overtly weird take on this same essential idea.

Anonymous

Surprised you didn't mention the thing Sturgeon is often best remembered for, Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap."

Anonymous
>>13438379

Essentially the idea later used in the film Cabin in the Woods.

stratum
>>13444757

It's the same Sturgeon? Damn. I somehow didn't do the connection in my mind, either.

Anonymous

God damn it guys, you killed Harlan Ellison!!! Stop mentioning living authors!!!

William Rieder
>>13444530

The film "The Endless" also touches on a variant of this structure, with a "certain other" very much like a Great Old One. Highly recommended.

Anonymous
>>13439676

First Ursula K Le Guin, now Harlan Ellison. It's been a bad year for my favorite authors. I like Shatterday and Pretty Maggie Money Eyes by Ellison. I'd LOVE an Ellison month now that [sob] he doesn't violate the dead authors only rule.

Anonymous

There's a lot in this story that reminded me of the Adjustment Bureau (the movie more than theshort story by Phillip K. Dick.) This idea that we are on a track, and the future is scripted by guardian angels. The movie overlayed more religious overtones and it was really giving me flashbacks to this story you covered. Especially the whole bit about a regular working-Joe guy who bumbles his way into the setup area for the future, and gets a peak behind the curtain of reality's function. But even though there is not much of the weird fiction going on, it was still a fantastic episode. Definitly had a certain strangeness to it.

Anonymous

That was a pretty interesting one and I will need to look up the Twilight Zone episode! If you are going to cover HPL influence on comics in the next topics episode, you may want to expand beyond Marvel and focus on Dark Horse, Mignola, and Hellboy/Witchfinder/Amazing Screw-on Head. Also, Brian Clevinger's Atomic Robo would be in your wheelhouse.

Anonymous
>>13451780

I was going to say: this story (and last week's story, for that matter) reminded me a lot of the PKD story "Adjustment Team" (I haven't seen the movie). But "Adjustment Team" was published in 1954, and "Yesterday Was Monday" was published in 1941, so I guess PDK was borrowing from Sturgeon.

Anonymous

A more realistic title might be: Yesterday was Monday, Today is also Monday, Tomorrow will be Monday Again. Or: Isn't This the 2nd Thursday this Week? Or: Pray for the Sweet Release of Death, For it is Only Tuesday. Someone had to make that joke. So sad about Harlan Ellison. I think he was the kind of person the world needs more of these days: angry, difficult, and not prepared to let the bastards get away with it.

Anonymous

yeah crossover ep with RWST by a write I think would really appreciate it. Love Amok Time and a lot of Sturgeon but not really this one. too cutsey which I think plagues a lot of scif/fantasy of his time. As you said when you read it as a pre teen/teen it can really catch your imagination, but it's just a style that you gorw out of really fast. same problem with a lot of asimov short stories. never a probem with Harlan Ellison rip great old grumpy one!

Anonymous

About the name change: Edward is often shortened to Ed, but sometime people named Edward are called Ted (see Ted Kennedy). Ted is also short for Theodore. Problem solved.

Anonymous

It would be helpful if they just called him Tedward. Because reasons.

Anonymous

Now that the archive is up, I relistened to a few old shows, including coverage of a Conan story. There you mentioned that Conan has a very different approach than Lovecraft’s protagonists: Conan just accepts whatever weirdness he faces, and attacks anything — no thinking about what it means, no pondering about cosmic horrors. This Harry Wright is like a slacker Conan: accepts everything and ignores it. If Harry would be at the beach when Cthulhu rose from the ocean, his reaction would be shifting a little to the left to stay in the sun. (Except possibly punching Cthulhu if he got to close though...)

Anonymous

Also, Harry’s like a host from Westworld starting to gain self-awareness. He stays awake when he shouldn’t, he gets to see the technicians patching stuff up and making them look worn, gets taken to see the real world behind the curtains, and gets to meet Anthony Hopkins (the producer). All the while going “this doesn’t look like anything to me”.