Britney Spears was due in court today for a meeting with the commissioner who wants to check up on her progress regarding her conservatorship. Because TMZ reported the story early and the paparazzi is rabid, Britney’s meeting was cancelled. While Britney seems to be doing much better and wants to (amicably) end the conservatorship that puts her father in charge of her, no papers have been filed or requests have been made.

Can we take a moment to appreciate Jamie Spears, by the way? Clearly his influence in Britney’s life has been major the last couple of years. While she’s never going to be the Britney that we used to know, her parenting and mental health have improved greatly and her last album/tour was an overall success. Naysayers will point to the fact that it’s not normal to need your father to take control of your life and finances in your mid-20s when you’re a twice-divorced parent, but nothing about Britney’s life has been normal. If Lindsay Lohan or any other troubled young celebrity had a parent spend the time and energy on them the way Britney’s father did, they might just have the same kind of comeback.

The bitch is back and she’s brown again.

Previous psychological studies have pegged Brit-Brit batshit whenever she goes back to her traditional brown locks and here we are again: the threshold of barmy, the cusp of doom.

I fully expect a report regarding a check-in and check-out of rehab, a stringy pink wig, stubbled vagina, a thirteen-hour remarriage to Fatterline (I personally prefer “Feed-her-lines”) and more cheesy, spontaneous tattoos by the end of the week.

Team Crazy Britney fo’ eva!

“You can not compare Britney with Lady GaGa. Why? You are putting Lady Gaga at the same level of Britney Spears?  I really cannot believe it. Lady GaGa is good, but she’s a new artist, Britney Spears is a legend. They are two different artists, two forms of entertainment but very different, is like comparing Picasso to Dali.”

- Lily Allen says what we all should be thinking in a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar.

As if I needed another reason to sing Lily Allen’s praise and dog on Lady Gaga, but when you bring in the fact that we’re talking about the legendary Miss Britney Spears and Dali, too?! Pssh. Forget it. Not only is this quotable, but I’m having it tattooed on my lower back.

This year has been relatively slow in terms of major Britney gossip (R.I.P 2007-2008 Manic Britney. You gave us so many good stories, girl.) but the pop star is still not satisfied with the press she’s been getting. So, in an effort to fight back, Britney has launched a new section of her website called “BS Alert“, which basically is a forum to give her side of any news story that comes out about her. I’m not sure if I believe what she has to say much more than I believe gossip rags, but whatever. Let her have her little rumors blog.

The first entry up in the BS Alert is a year-end wrap up of some of Britney’s favorite bogus news stories about her, and I have to say: I am disappointed. They’re all boring. The number one story she selected is some crap from the UK Mirror, which always reads like the worst supermarket tabloid ever to me, and it’s about her marrying some Bollywood actor. That’s the number one item that was so fake it made Britney laugh? She’s been married twice and is rumored to be engaged again. How is that rumor laughable? It seems like the most believable thing on there. One item I was happy to see on the list? “Britney thinks her dad is drugging her” from a website called BreatheHeavy.com. See, that’s the stuff that we want to hear you elaborate on, Britney!

Photo via ONTD

We all know that Britney is not as hot anymore as she is in the above photo, but that’s just the magic of celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz at work. The two teamed up to shoot Britney’s new Candies ads and Annie made homegirl look fierce again. It’s like 2002 is happening on my computer screen or something.

My beautiful and amazing friend Ranae just posted this video on my Facebook page and I laughed so hard it hurt. Then I watched it again and laughed some more. I still can’t stop smiling. From what I can tell, this is an old-school episode of Nickelodeon’s All That — with Jamie-Lynn Spears, of course — that guest-starred Britney Spears. And this bit is really, really funny! Jamie-Lynn’s a talented little comedian. Too bad she went and got her ass knocked up. Seriously, though, this is really fantastic, and I had to share it with all of you. The good ole days!!! I wish we could still be so innocent …

Britney’s Circus tour is totally over and she stepped off the plane looking haggard. And I love it. That’s how someone’s supposed to look after being on like, a 24 hour flight. The only thing I want to say that’s maybe too critical on her looks is that she really needs to figure out that head of hair. I mean, she’s Britney Spears and her hair used to be amazing. Now it never looks like trash. Never. She would benefit from a wig from Kim Zolciak’s line. Human hair, of course.