#(direct tv)

[memoriesofmine]

[osheenbean]

Direct TV's kid's movie section is Ruby Gillman themed.

[brandfearn-blogs-here]

This is a old commercial way back from the earlier 2000s. I still remembered it because it was so funny haha.

[superohclair]

my favorite thing about the serena williams as wonder woman commercial for direcTv is how the woman in the commercial is openly ogling serena while her boyfriend sits next to her stunned. this girl is jaw is on the floor and hand in her own hair turned on and it’s PERFECTION

[allaboutwilson]

Ruth Wilson on relating to Marisa Coulter [*]

[piraytoro]

When I was in second grade my favorite song was Soak Up the Sun by Sheryl Crow. It came on while I was in the car with my mom. In the very first line, she says “my friend the communist holds meeting in his office.” I didn’t know what a communist was, and she sort of swallows the consonant in “the,” so I turned to my mom and asked, “His name is Legomulus?” And my mom said “oh. Uh. Yeah.” And I was like “that doesn’t sound like a real name.” So I listened very closely next time it came on, and came to the conclusion that his name must be Legomulus, because what else could she possibly be saying? And so I just filed it under White People Are Weird. By the time I was twelve I had heard about communism, but didn’t yet know about the associations held by people like my mom. I came home after hearing the song on the bus and was like “I’ve figured it out! It’s *the communist,* not Legomulus!” And my mom was like “oh... Haha. Silly us.”

Basically what I’m getting at here is that the Red Scare had so much power that decades later my mom would rather have her six year old walking around singing a song about Legomulus than acknowledge that communism is real. Because then she’d have to explain it to me. But this kind of backfired, because me having no knowledge of communism meant that, when I did encounter the word, I was able to come to my own coinclusions about it. But now something I think about a lot is the alternate universe where I never learned what the song actually said, and in a fit of nostalgia ended up naming my child after a character in my favorite song from second grade. Where my mom had a grandson named Legomulus and came to regret every decision she ever made, including ever having kids, and not embracing communism in college. I’m just now realizing that this whole post basically reads like those direct TV commercials.

DON’T have a grandson named Legomulus. Get on board with communism.

[silveragelovechild]

To understand the lay-offs at DC Comics and Warner Brothers, you have to understand who is calling the shots. Warner was recently bought by AT&T. And like any villain in a story, AT&T is a disguise.

I used to work for Pac Bell, the California Phone company. In the 1990s it was bought by SBC, a Texas Company that went on a buying spree of phone companies. It paid for it by cost cutting - laying people off.

They were also “we know best” and squashed any new ideas. Imagine, telecommuting was a concept photo companies sold to business because it would require buying data lines. But SBC didn’t trust its own employees to telecommute. You needed to get a vice-president’s approval to work at home.

By aughts, the Long Distance Company AT&T was in dire financially straits. So SBC bought it. No one knew what SBC was so it bought AT&T because it had the best name recognition. So AT&T is really a backward thinking Texas Company. That’s who is making decisions regarding Warner and DC Comics.

In 2014, AT&T paid $67 billion to acquire Direct TV in an effort to get into the television business. That didn’t go so well (they are now trying to sell pieces off). This is what motivated their next purchase.

AT&T paid $85 billion for Time/Warner. As I’ve explained above, they immediately follow purchases with lay-offs. Comic books don’t make enough profit to impact AT&T’s bottom line so naturally DC Comics’ staff was a target. But in their backward thinking they don’t realize how comic books build fan bases, and fans go to the movies that create billion dollar movie franchises.

[theredandwhitequeen]

CW and CBS

CBS and Direct tv are fighting so they took the CW off the air. They’d better have it back by September so I can watch Supernatural, the flash, arrow, Roswell New Mexico and Legends of tomorrow. I’m so irritated. At least our cabin has a different cable system so at least we could record them there and watch them. But it is dumb.