She’s been under a conservatorship run by her dad for years. He calls the shots and gets paid by these deals and, in theory, slides her a cut as well.

So she’s a 38 year old woman hoping dad remembers to pay her the allowance she’s owed.

Left out of this story: These crows were all the ones who were left at closing time.

What are you gonna do, you know?

It’s worth noting that this is viewed as a pretty shady deal by many Britney fans (I’m not one, but the Twitter buzz around this was fascinating and I fell down a rabbit hole) and a way to exploit her image without her input or her receiving any of the revenue.

It was hard when I had to tell my kids that I thought Chipotle was “just okay.”

I use Waze, but its interface is astonishingly bad. If Apple ever copies Waze’s social features, Waze will be in real trouble. A number of people I’ve pitched Waze too found the whole thing too cumbersome and intimidating and stuck with worse options as a result.

Privacy.

As someone who’s struggled with seasonal depression for years, therapy lamps make a huge difference for me. If you find yourself being sad/angry/lethargic/depressed during the winter months, I definitely recommend giving it a try (and reading the directions -- leaving it on all daylight hours is not recommended).

As someone who’s struggled with seasonal depression for years, therapy lamps make a huge difference for me. If you…

I don’t understand how The Lost Boys could be this difficult to produce, either the original time-hopping anthology series idea (which was amazing) or even just a modern day show about sexy vampires on the boardwalk in Santa Carla. The latter, especially, seems like an easy slam dunk for the CW.

Not only did I happy-cry throughout the finale, reading this recap started me up again.

This was a nearly perfect show throughout. I’d be interested to see how its overall ratings stack up to other shows The AV Club has reviewed from start to finish.

I didn’t ever expect to have a sitcom stay with me the way The Good…

I hadn’t even thought about that, but that would have been an amazing transition between the trilogies, and would play into the themes — unfortunately only discovered piecemeal as the sequels were being written — that no one is all dark side or light side, but points in between.

* “doesn’t not make the end of World War I a happy thing.”

Sheesh, what a typo.

The New Republic stood for 20 minutes.

Also, I’d argue that any civilization that stood for 25,000 years is in desperate need of some new ideas, especially given that a failure to recognize that “this is the way we’ve always done it” is a dangerous trap to fall into is what led to the Old Republic’s fall.

Obligatory link to Simone’s Women in Refrigerators website, which explains her thinking and includes responses from comic book creators of the late 1990s, when she began the conversation.

Albeit short-lived, the “New Republic” seems stronger than a “Newer Republic” or whatever may be coming.

The fact that the Nazis rose and World War II happened — along with all the other horrible shit the Nazis did along the way — doesn’t make the end of World War I a happy thing.

History doesn’t sit still, and ending one threat doesn’t mean future threats won’t ever arise. In fact, trying too vigorously to keep the…

It never ceases to amaze me that Marvel can get the Daily Bugle feeling right — turning it into a blog, because that’s the future once or twice, aside -- while DC doesn’t seem to have any idea of how to make the Daily Planet seem like a real newspaper publication, even leaving the 1970s-era hilariousness of Clark and…

That’s giving him too much credit. He’d be hugely popular on Gab and 8/chan.

Lovecraft is well known among genre fans, but that’s still relatively recent. For most of the last century, he’s been fairly obscure. So, yeah, lots of older genre fans know this.

But people who are just coming to Lovecraftian themes through Darkest Dungeon or The Colour Out of Space movie or other modern entry points…

As the owner of elderly cats, I can confirm that they definitely prefer elevated food and water bowls.

As the owner of elderly cats, I can confirm that they definitely prefer elevated food and water bowls.

Pretty sure white hipsters who aren’t taking improv classes* have all moved on to other shows.

* Caveat: Most white hipsters are taking improv classes