Earlier today, Mariah Carey posted almost three minutes of herself listening to herself (specifically her rendition of "O Come, All Ye Faithful") and rambling over the blaring music about celebrating Christmas in February. In the YouTube clip, she shows off a Christmas tree recently purchased in Connecticut, a roaring fire and decorations. She wishes everyone a merry Christmas and an early happy Valentine's Day. It is a festive, seasonally malapropos moment.

Adam Lambert has been accused of battery after getting in a tussle with a Miami paparazzo. A friend pulled the be-hatted American Idol runner-up off the photog, but not before he suffered some dino-damage. Bonus action shot after the jump.

Scandinavian airline SAS is holding a contest to find the ideal same-sex couple to be wed in the friendly skies. "There will be wedding cake and dancing in the aisles," said a spokesperson. What's next, a man marrying a bird??

Yes, professional child-haver Kate Gosselin is lugging her TLC TV show circus up to the Northern wilds to hang out with known Mama Grizzly, Sarah Palin. The gang is going to go on a very special, very filmed camping trip.

Sir Ian McKellen, England's second most famous wizard, was sitting outside the Comedy Theatre in Australia in his Waiting for Godot costume when someone walked by and dropped money in his hat. They thought he was a real tramp. [Telegraph]

Here's a video taken in a land called New Zealand — populated solely by teenage girls and Elijah Wood's curious genetic cloning experiments — of pop sensation Justin Bieber arriving at the airport. Kiwis go apeshit. He's a god!

Today is the fifth anniversary of YouTube's first video upload. On April 23rd, 2005 at 8:27pm (a Saturday night—nerd!) this video of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim sparked an internet revolution. Fittingly for the site, he's at a zoo. [Mashabale]

Anne Hathaway's New York stage debut in Twelfth Night at the Delacorte closed on Sunday, but not before she could do something rather... heroic. Wee hours line waiters were treated to pizza on Sunday morning, hand delivered by Hathaway herself.

Harvey Kindlon, the 11-year-old Boy with the Yellow Rose from London, loves singing and acting. He also likes to meet celebrities! We spoke to the poised youngster over the phone to get his side of the crazy Megan Fox story.

If you're like us, your high school graduation was in some sweaty gymnasium or on a grass-barren athletic field. Not so for the youngs of wealthy New York, who graduated in glorious fashion recently. The New York Observer was there.

OK guys, can it with the "Bristol Palin: high school dropout" jokes. The eldest girl spawn of Alaskan governor Sarah graduated from Wasilla Upstairs Learning Academy last night. People magazine was there.

Oh, hello. You wanted to see a picture of disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich standing in a fake forest with Heidi and Spencer from The Hills, right? Oh good, because we have one.

They're not taking it so well.

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and the AP was on hand at various newsrooms to capture the celebration. Even though winning one doesn't matter, we've put together a small gallery of the best photos.

Oh you fucking hipsters. Talib Kweli—a black dude who white dudes aren't scared of—will be giving a free concert with fruity/dumb Vampire Weekend on Columbia's library steps in one hour. Grab your keffiyah!

Are we, and a tipster, crazy, or is that rapper Mike D and his wife Tamra Davis in the photo accompanying Frank Bruni's review of the John Dory in the New York Times today?

Well, waiting in a vestibule with him. Muscle-bound Scott decided to casually introduce himself to a young lady, and me being a lameo, I eavesdropped. It was kind of sad.