I had no idea about the Satellite Radio giveaway in Union Square yesterday. You can imagine my surprise walking through on my lunch break to see the streets packed tighter than usual and two huge rigs in the park. Apparently, Howard Stern was there (like I care). It was all this huge promotional deal for the upcoming alliance of Stern and Sirius Satellite Radio. People were walking away with these satellite boomboxes ? a co-worker said that Sirius was giving them away, but I kinda doubt it was that easy to earn one. Probably the funniest thing about it was a group of people across the street from XM Satellite Radio were staging some sort of ?protest.? All wearing matching company T-shirts, they held up signs promoting talk show hosts Opie & Anthony. They were walking through the intersection cheering and drawing attention to themselves.

All this so that grown men who ought to know better can feel free to curse up a blue streak and do who knows what else on the air?fantastic.