CIRCUS IS A BIG HIT

Exactly one year ago today there was a story on here about Britney shoplifting a lighter from a gas station.  It was like the fourth thing she had stolen in a few weeks.  She was a drunken menace to society and, even worse, fat and unattractive.  Just 12 months later, she looks fantastic and it’s safe to say things have turned around.  E! says…

For the first time in more than five years, Britney topped the Billboard 200. Her new album Circus sold more than half a million copies for the week ended Sunday.  This gives Spears the second-biggest female bow of the year, topping debut weeks by Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Madonna, Janet Jackson and Beyoncé and only trailing Taylor Swift. Once the final retail receipts are counted, the album should claim the seventh-biggest bow of 2008.Back in October, Britney set the stage for her comeback when "Womanizer" became her first Hot 100 chart-topper since "…Baby One More Time" a decade ago.

Obviously the turning point was when Britney turned her life over to manager Larry Rudolph.  Also when the kid behind the counter explained that you can't add bacon to the meatball sub because we don’t even have meatball subs, this is a bank, and even if we did that would be gross.  And then Britney fired back, "you lissen’a’me sassmouth, I'm Britney Spears, if I tell you to get me a meatball sub, I ‘spect you to do it!"  The kid never did do it, and as she drove away Britney realized she could run away from this bank, but she could never run away from her self.