I had seen a few days ago that Justin Bieber had given his pet hamster to a random screaming 
fan in a crowd and asked her to take care of it, which I found odd. Now the hamster lobby (seriously, there's California Hamster Association) is angry at the pop star. "The moment that hamster was handed off to a screaming girl in a harsh, frenzied environment was likely the moment it gazed at the short path to its doom."
Paper Mag celebrates the Year of the Celebrity Bulge, and I'll drink to that!
In Iowa, new millionaires Brian and Mary Lohseare donating part of their $202 million jackpot to their local high school for a new football stadium, with one catch: the visitor locker room has to be done up in pink, in an effort to psyche out the opposing team. Money can't buy you class.
UFC president Dana White, still trying to live down the video he released years ago using the erm "faggot"is lauding newly out lesbian fighterLiz Carmouche. "I love what she did. I know I have the big ‘homophobe' persona and people think 
I'm some homophobe. I'm the furthest thing from it. I think it's ridiculous it's 2013 and the government tells two people they can't marry each other. Who is the government to tell two people who say they love each other they can't be married? It's ridiculous."
My old brownie buddy Maggie Gallagheris going to use her newly formed Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund to defend JONAH, the ex-gay organization being sued for fraud.
When I was a kid, the Pied Piper Music store in the mall had a computer set up where you could play Zork, and I used to waste hours in there on the classic text adventure. Now the creators of the iconic game are going to be honored with the Pioneer Award at the DICE Summit.
I know most of New York City hates Time Warner Cable, but the company just donated $50,000 to create a technology lab at the Ali Forney Center, bringing computers, printers, and HD TV to the organization to help homeless gay youth, so you have to give them some credit.
While the latest statistics show a drop in HIV infection rates in some groups,
including African-American women, new infections in men who have sex with men, particularly young men, rose 22%.
Lady Gagais bringing the Born This Way bus tour with her, set up outside her concerts to provide resources to youth on bullying.
On the internet's two most popular porn sites, YouPorn and xHamster, people have watched 1.2 million years of porn since 2006. I swear only 50 years of that was me.
Home Alone often gets overlooked as a Christmas classic, but now experts have weighed in on the violence of broken ornaments and irons to the face, and determined that those criminals never stood a chance, and if they survived, would have spent months in the hospital recovering from their injuries.
Sadly, Breaking Bad plushies and action figures won't be out in time for Christmas this year, but will make the next holiday season. Because they are child appropriate toys.
After making the mythical anti-Christian bias of marriage equality supporters a centerpiece in his campaign for the Republican nomination this year, Newt Gingrichnow says he understands the difference between civil and religious marriage. "I think that this will be much more difficult than immigration for conservatism to come to grips with. It is in every family. It is in every community. The momentum is clearly now in the direction in finding some way to ... accommodate and deal with reality. And the reality is going to be that in a number of American states -- and it will be more after 2014 -- gay relationships will be legal, period."
Remember that "study" that said homosexuality was epigenetic, and not genetic? It wasn't so much a study as a hypothesis, and the media ran with it, in the wrong direction.
Andrew Dice Clay says he fully supports equality, and marriage for GLBT folks, but he's not going to stop using "fag" in his standup. "But the 
other reason I say fag—number one, let’s just talk about the word fag. Fag is a funny word. To gays, it was insulting years ago, and I understand that because I have gay friends. But as a word onstage, for what I do as a comic, you don’t say, “You’re going to catch gay.” It’s not funny. “You’re going to catch fag” is funny."
House of Style checked in with transgender punk rockerLaura Jane Grace of Against Me!, and it's worth watching the whole thing, but I kind of loved this quote. “I'm probably one of the luckiest transsexuals in the world — I have the same size shoe as my wife so I can steal her shoes."
John Stamos cuddles up to Andrew Rannells on the set of The New Normal
I'm going to wait until they come out with the belt buckle version and buy the matching set
Actor, Logo personality, and activist Jonathan D. Lovitz fulfills a dream of meeting the faboo Rachel Maddow
Josh Duhamel is the tallest Christmas elf to ever hit the golf course
As we approach the new season of Shameless, I've already remarked on how pumped up Ian looks for the new season, but in this video, he shows just how a Gallagher stays in shape, and it's not in a fancy gym.
Cyndi Lauper's new reality show premieres on WeTV next month, and here we get a look at her hanging out with another of our favorite ladies, Kathy Griffin. All it needs is a little Cher to be perfect.
One of our favorite late night features is Jimmy Kimmel's "This Week In Unnecessary Censorship," and now we have the year end wrap up of the series, which brings back one of my favorite scenes, and no doubt one of snicks' favorites.
Drag queen Peppermint takes a look back at pop culture in 2012 and manages a decent parody of Azealia Banks' video.
I've always been slightly jealous of MTV's Josh Horowitz, as he seems to have more fun playing with celebrities than just about anyone on the beat. And now he's been invited to Hugh Jackman's home for the opportunity of a lifetime, but he seems less than thrilled about it.
A Christmas Story is a staple of the holiday season, but can you imagine the pitch meeting if it was held today? There's no way that this movie could possibly be made in today's studio culture.
Diesel has put out this slightly NSFW ad celebrating the end of the world, and it provides a suggestion on how you should spend your last day on earth, just in case.
The Henson Company's Miskreant Puppets, who appear in Neil's Puppet Dreams want to talk to you about the "12 Awkward Days of Christmas." This is destined to be a holiday classic. Hey, if Mariah Carey can get a classic, there's no reason this can't be.
This Is the End has people like James Franco and Seth Rogen playing themselves, as they await the end of the world. Oddly, this movie is set to release over the summer and not in time for the pending doom, but at least Michael Cera is dead. This is a red band trailer, so it's totally NSFW.
Daniel Radcliffe and Ricky Gervais were on The Graham Norton Show last week and both talked about their bodies. Daniel says that it seems like he's added a nudity clause to his pictures these days, except instead of prohibiting it, the movies require it.
And because it's Friday, we all need some cute before we head off to the inevitable holiday parties we've got to attend before Christmas hits. Here is the San Diego Zoo's panda cub Xiao Liwu having a physical, and getting a new ball to test coordination. It's pretty much the cutest thing you'll see all day, unless you run into Russell Tovey on the bus. And if that happens, tell him to call me.
