This blog is about Satellite Radio, Lost, and the Xbox 360.

Sirius and XM are merging. WTF, mate?

It has been speculated about for a while but I never actually thought it would happen. There are pros and cons, for example, now that there is only one satellite radio company, they can likely jack up their prices a few dollars, and crush any would-be competitor, Wal-Mart style. On the other hand, the content I’m now getting will double, I think satellite radio as a whole will have more credibility, and, who knows, any competitor would have to revolutionize the industry to gain an advantage.

(Want to hear my idea? Good. Eventually I think all this copyright bullshit mess will be straightened out, and people will have Satellite Radio’s that include local channels much like Satellite Television does now. Anyway, the way the entertainment industry is going, people want things on-demand and with them at all times. So I think the radio of the future will be a device you can take with you anywhere that will have hundreds of channels like it does now that you can listen to, and if you really like a song you can choose to download it. It will also have a menu that you can scroll through and purchase things, iTunes style. The same will eventually be true for your television. They will have removable hard drives - or whatever the futuristic storage equivalent is - and you will just download everything or have it on-demand from a cable company or something.  ADAM PREDICTS THE FUTURE: This will all be kicked off by Apple when they introduce their own next-gen gaming/media console in 2013.)

They sent me an email and at first I thought it was a dream or something because it was so surprising. Kind of like how JJ Abrams is in charge of the new Star Trek movie. I’m not saying “it’s a dream come true,” because that would be dorky.

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In other news, here’s a good theory about Lost:

DO BLACK HOLES EXPLAIN IT ALL?

Simply put, this not-so-simple theory posits that the electromagnetic anomaly beneath The Hatch was a black hole. No, I’m not joking. Check out thetailsection.com, which has been hosting a proverbial symposium on the subject since ”Not In Portland” aired.

THE CLUE: An Other named Aldo was seen reading Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. The book was open to the page that discusses black holes.

IF IT WALKS LIKE A BLACK HOLE, AND TALKS LIKE A BLACK HOLE — IT MUST BE A BLACK HOLE! From Wikipedia: ”A black hole is defined to be a region of space-time where escape to the outside universe is impossible…. [O]bservers outside the event horizon cannot see any events which may be happening within the event horizon… Within the black hole is a singularity, an anomalous place where matter is compressed to the degree that the known laws of physics no longer apply to it.” Sounds like The Island, doesn’t it?

WHAT THIS EXPLAINS: Among other things, why Desmond was unable to sail away from the island; why the island is seemingly invisible to the outside world; why the island is a twilight zone for physics-defying phenomena; why The Hatch ”imploded” instead of ”exploded.”

WHAT THIS DOESN’T EXPLAIN: Among other things, why the Others have been able to commute off the island via submarine; and why Locke, Eko, and Desmond weren’t sucked into the anomaly along with The Hatch.

POKING HOLES IN BLACK HOLE THEORY: A key contention of this young, still-in-process theory is that The Button inside The Hatch was regulating the awesome energies radiating from this black hole/anomaly. But if pushing that computer key was really so darn important — like ‘’saving the world” important, according to Kelvin — why didn’t Dharma devise a more reliable Button-pushing system? Two guys in a hatch (volunteers, really) following instructions from a dubious industrial film that conspicuously fails to spell out the stakes? THAT is Earth’s defense against the catastrophic consequences of a throbbing wound in the fabric of reality? Please.

THE ALDO FACTOR: What should we make of the fact that the Hawking/Black Hole clue came attached to a guy named Aldo? Perhaps more proof for the theory. ”Aldo” means ”elder, older one” in German — interesting, given Aldo the Other looks like he’s barely 18. But are looks deceiving? Given the mounting clues suggesting some kind of time-warp phenomenon (”Mittelos” — the Others-backed company that recruited Juliet to the island — is an anagram for LOST TIME), maybe the Island-indigenous Others are much older than they look.

SOME ”OTHER” ADVICE: The literalism with which the Hawking/black-hole clue has been interpreted and applied reminds me of something that Michael Emerson (Ben/Henry Gale) told me when I visited the Lost set in January:

”The little tidbits may not necessarily be revealing of the master plan, but they’re usually not empty, either. The whole thing about my original name, Henry Gale. Okay, so it’s Dorothy’s uncle [from The Wizard of Oz], so you think, where are they going with that? Well, they don’t have to go anywhere with it. Just free associate — about her trip to Oz, a fantasyland that has certain purgatorial dimensions… I don’t think [the executive producers] stay up all night researching this stuff. I think it just falls out of them, and it kind of thickens and enriches the whole.”

APPLYING BEN’S WISDOM TO BLACK HOLE THEORY:  Saying ”the island is a black hole” is as misguided as saying ”the island is Oz.” In fact, it might be as misguided as saying ”Oz is a black hole.” After all, couldn’t Oz be described as a ”region of space-time” where ”the laws of physics no longer apply”? Instead, think analogously. The Island isn’t a black hole — it’s just like a black hole.

THEN AGAIN: Isn’t Ben a big fat liar?

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I bought an Xbox 360 the other day. It’s pretty much the coolest thing ever.

Anybody who knows me knows that Mortal Kombat is my fravrite. So discovering I could download and play UMK3 with other people around the world was pretty much the highlight of my day. Paperboy, too.

There is a new game for the 360 called Crackdown that I want to play, and dammit, some day I will.

Anyway, I’m officially out. Like Britney Spears’ mind.

What happened ?