The sun sets from cheek to cheek

[sovay]

Happy solstice! spatch and I inaugurated the shortest night by walking out for ice cream and then returning to watch a bunch of music videos. I was infuriated to read before bed that the president of Warner Bros. Discovery cannot tell a hole in the ground from reasons not to dismantle TCM—aside from its importance to film history and preservation or its last sixteen years as a lifeline for me through life-derailing illness, it's a guaranteed moneymaker; people who otherwise couldn't want less from a cable TV package will pay for it. I am aware this is a familiar refrain. I'd rather just be singing to conjure summer in.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Happy solstice!

I really hope TCM survives.

[sovay]

Happy solstice!

Happy solstice! spatch just sent me this link! Last night I had been wondering if it would be possible to invoke Scorsese. Fingers crossed.

[gwynnega]

Yes, a friend of mine just posted that on my FB! Here's hoping.

[minoanmiss]

Oh no! That'as just ridiculous, I am so sorry.

[sovay]

Oh no! That'as just ridiculous, I am so sorry.

It is ridiculous! I am hoping that Zaslav is not so high on his own supply that he cannot be made to understand what he will lose if he kills TCM, like the ability to walk anywhere in Hollywood without having rocks thrown at him.

[aurumcalendula]

Happy solstice!

the president of Warner Bros. Discovery cannot tell a hole in the ground from reasons not to dismantle TCM

Oh no! I hope TCM survives.

[sovay]

Happy solstice!

It's beautifully sunny for it, too!

(I am starting to feel about TCM the way you feel about a historic theater in need of community rescue.)

[lauradi7dw]

I really don't understand the throwing money away thing. We raised my parents' cable level to the more expensive one just to get them TCM. They are gone now, but there must be many more viewers still around, as you say.

[sovay]

We raised my parents' cable level to the more expensive one just to get them TCM. They are gone now, but there must be many more viewers still around, as you say.

My parents are subscribers to their particular cable deal strictly for TCM! Have been for years. I cannot imagine they are outliers (cf. your parents). We have Watch TCM, but that's because we don't have a real TV.

[kore]

I just....I honestly do not understand just destroying it like that. I don't think he'd even make money off that?

[sovay]

I just....I honestly do not understand just destroying it like that. I don't think he'd even make money off that?

I don't see any way he can! I'm trying to figure out if it's just some kind of spite immolation, which would be awful, but at least a comprehensible motive rather than "step one, burn everything down, step two, profit???"