Let’s face it – this has been a pretty sh*tty week for sports. I went to a bar last night to watch the Raiders-Chargers game and every conversation around me was Penn State this and Joe Paterno that. I even met San Diego Padres pitcher Luke Gregerson and we talked about how much I hated that the St. Louis Cardinals traded him for Khalil Greene, but after a minute or two everything was back to Penn State.

Hell, I tried to change the subject to Wilson Ramos, the Washington Nationals catcher who was kidnapped from his own home in Venezuela. On any other day that’s a huge, world-stopping story. But not with this Penn State stuff going down. And it’s depressing as all hell. So I thought we could all use a little pick-me-up today.

The other night, Victoria’s Secret Angels did their thing for their annual fashion show at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City. The event featured performances from Adam Levine, Kanye West, and Nicki Minaj, who constantly looks like she’s taking a dump, but we don’t care about any of that. Not even that Leonardo DiCaprio was in attendance, apparently shopping for his latest treat. Nope, we deserve to be cheered up, so I’ll let the models take it from here.

Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve been anywhere near Twitter or a TV in the past 12 hours, you’ve heard about the 8.9 magnitude that has rocked Japan, creating a tsunami that is still washing away everything in its path in the Miyagi Prefecture of northern Japan. It’s terrifying, really, so I felt compelled to point out some links and give anyone interested a place to discuss those events here.

• Images of the devestation can be found here. You will not be the first person to exclaim that these look like promotion still from any generic Hollywood disaster movie. Or the last.
• Al Jazeera is streaming a live news feed on YouTube. Yes, it’s in English.
• The tsunami is not expected to significantly impact the United States. Hawai’i has seen waves up to seven feet tall on its shores, and residual tsunami waves are expected to appear on the west coast. Even though those waves are not expected to be more than a few feet high, some southern California beaches are closing.
• Google has set up a person finder tool and a crisis response page.
• Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel was visiting French Polynesia when the tsunami hit Sendai, Miyagi, about 6000 miles away from him. After a questionable attempt at humor, Kimmel reported that he and others were evacuating.
• The least deplorable humor-infused tsunami remark on Twitter came from Dave Chappelle, who tweeted, “maybe the Playstation 4 will be water-proof”…
• …but this might actually be worse than what Chappelle said.

Finally, here’s a video from a guy that apparently sat through one of the aftershocks of the quake. We’ll update this throughout the day; feel free to send us anything you find or write at withleather-tips@uproxx.com.

video via @edsbs.

Japan has once again proven that it’s the international leader in creating things both adorable and dangerous, as one of the hottest trends in the comically futuristic country is owning a tricked out super-charged low-rider scooter. From a London Paper gallery awesomely titled “Oversized pimped-up super scooters are the latest must-have fashion accessory among Japanese teens”:

Complete with oversized exhausts these colourfully extravagant 250cc scooters are the ultimate accessory for the Japanese teenager. Designed and created by Yamaha, Suzuki and Honda among others, the unique customised bikes are set to storm the world.

[Customer Scooter magazine editor Matsushita] Hisashi said the type of people buying them vary among mechanics, delivery drivers and lots of girls.

In a seemingly unrelated story, Japanese teens are the latest thing that oversize pimps must have access to.  At least, that’s what Double-XL Weezy told me the last time I was looking for a “date.”

It hardly seems possible, but apparently some people in L.A. – a city known for its sincerity and refined taste – aren’t all that enamored with David Beckham’s wife Victoria.

Sources say she has made herself unpopular with management of the celeb-friendly, press-shy Chateau Marmont. "She always lets the paparazzi know when she'll be arriving," wags a West Coast tongue. "The Chateau Marmont tries to give celebs their privacy, and they hate her there."

The splash she has made since arriving also seems to have upset some of the other swimmers in the L.A. fishbowl. Last Tuesday, "Britney Spears turned up at the Chateau and the only table available was the one next to Posh," laughs the snitch. "But Britney didn't want to sit next to her, so she and her friend stormed off to Il Sole instead."

I think that is just reprehensible.  You can't just sit a sexy icon next to a washed-up pop star like that.  As the sexy icon, Britney deserves better.  Why is Posh Spice still famous anyway?  The Spice Girls haven't mattered in years.

Oh.  Excuse me.  I've just been informed that it's no longer 2002.  Apparently the Spice Girls are touring, Posh is a fashion icon, and Britney is a washed-up mess continually on the verge of meltdown.  So wait.  How is pissing off Britney a bad thing again?  What's she gonna do, smoke cigarettes and misspell "Posh" in her diary?