I like to make fun of NASCAR as much as the next guy, but this deserves some respect.

The man got out and finished the race on foot.

Here’s a clip of Michael Emerson on Jimmy Fallon.  I feel bad for the guy because he’s typecast as creepy and probably will be for the rest of his life.  I saw an interview once where the interviewer kept saying, “God, you’re so creepy!” thinking he was trying to be creepy but he wasn’t, and he looked really hurt.  I think he could be the next Christopher Walken.

…so I figger I’d post it, too.  It’s kind of sweet.

Video embedding is disabled because someone doesn’t understand how the internet works (I guess), so you’ll have to click here to see it.

UPDATE: Here is a MUCH better version of the video, which shows the whole set up and the commentary afterward.

Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to see who could reach a million Twitter followers first.  The whole thing was kind of silly but it made for a friendly competition with both of them vowing to donate various things to charities if they won, and whoever did it would be the first Twitter user ever to get that many followers.

I was rooting for CNN but Ashton won, and apparently he was streaming live when he did it.  Here’s the video.  It took me a while to realize the girl in the video was Demi Moore.

A few days ago videos were posted online showing a few Domino’s employees doing gross things to food they were making, which was then presumably eaten by customers.  See the videos here.

How did the videos get online?  Well, the employees posted them.  That’s pretty stupid.  As soon as people started watching them, they took them down, but as anybody who uses the internet knows, when things are deleted they rarely ever go away.

After the videos were found and posted on the Consumerist blog, some readers were able to track down the location of the Domino’s using clues in the background, and google.  They contacted the Dominos Corporate office.

Today, the employees were fired.

Seriously… what did they think would happen?

Though, if you’re posting videos online of you shooting boogers onto a pizza, I don’t think your top priority is keeping your job.  Still, it’s nice to know their local news has picked up on it (another reason why newspaper shouldn’t die), and hopefully the thought of public humiliation alone would deter any copycat offenses, especially around my area.  In addition, Domino’s is looking into pressing charges for intentional health violations and damage to the brand, so the repercussions might go deeper than just embarrassment and unemployment.

Read more about it here.  The readers, Amy Wilson and ‘whyerhead’, are right up there with Batman as far as I’m concerned.

Quick thinking to the guy on music, though.  You can hear “Love Stinks” in the background near the end of the video.

“…I’ve been eating unhealty, right, for like, ever, for always, yeah, forever; so like, I don’t eat anything for 21 days, and then all of the sudden I’m in ship-shape now; I’m completely healthy and cleansed, and I can reintroduce all the bad stuff I’ve been eating only make it worse.”

This is my new favorite commercial.  I saw it this morning on TV and had to rewind, like, 5 times.  If nothing else, just the fact that they use the word bourgeoisie.  And I feel like a kid being entranced by the flight attendant’s “bye-bye” because I smile at the TV, wave, and say “bye-bye” back to her.

Ha!

A good ad makes me want to buy the product just because they did so well making the ad.  Like Apple, and Doritos, with that commercial where the idiot guy claims he can see the future and then throws the crystal ball into the vending machine.  Hilarious.

In other news, because I am crazy, I bought a musical keyboard.  I’m tired of pretending to play the piano, since I’m not doing anything else with my life I figured I had some time to actually learn.  Go Meat!