When I see a man drinking bourbon

#1: SEEEEEEEEE? Proof that no one is a vegetarian for medical reasons! THEY'RE ALL LYING LIARS WHO LIE. ASSHOLES.

To LW#2: When someone chooses to marry, and especially when he or she has kids, priorities necessarily change. And unfortunately, that means drifting away from many people who were close friends in the "single" days. There's an excellent chance they don't dislike you, nor are they judging your decisions about marriage…

Regarding the woman whose friends are all married/have kids, I can tell you that I love all of my non-parent friends just as much as I did before I had a child. The reason I see less of them isn't because I only want to hang out with other parents, it's because I know that my child-free friends have better things to…

I hate her so much. Anytime I see her mentioned, a klaxon goes off in my head like I'm the Bride and I just saw Elle Driver lurking in my hospital room.

WhatEV, bish: having babies makes me even cooler. It's like my ovaries have superpowers...

Props to the actual adoptive parents- they're doing something right in this world. And I don't think a "majority of white people" are against interracial relationships that produce children. (Protip, world: Alabama isn't as stuck in 1965 as you want to think we are.) But the vocal anti-abortion lobby we have? Yeah,…

This is truly mortifying. As an Alabamian who leans more left than right but truly hates both political parties, this man needs to shut. the. fuck. up.

Laurence Fishburne ever so politely hit on me in an elevator in Chicago once. And then he came to my office to meet with my boss which was cool.

I've told this story a million times and I'm 100% sure I've told it on Jezebel, but it's one of my favorite stories (and I'm a storyteller by nature):
I was 15-16 years old and on a study abroad trip to Switzerland/Italy. I was in Florence and my host family wanted to go to the top of some tall medieval building,…

I'm pretty sure my status as An Old has been cemented, and if it hasn't, it will be now. Spring Break '93 and my friends and I decide to fly out and crash at my roommate's brother's apartment in West Hollywood. Well, one of my friends' boyfriends was a big tattoo guy, and he wanted a t-shirt from Sunset Strip Tattoos,…

So me and my family (sister, father, mother) are in NYC during christmas break last year. We decide to go out to this really really nice steakhouse in Manhattan with my boyfriend who happens to be in grad school at the time in the city. Everything is going well, we get a round of drinks chit chatting nicely discussing…

I used to work in high-end menswear retail in Manhattan (I now work in media, which is a whole other set of weird encounters). We got a lot of celebrity customers. I spent the better part of half an hour helping Kyle McLachlan pick out a tie. Jason Bateman was a total sweetheart and very low-key but personable. Shaun…

I was in a bookstore somewhere in LA, and on a pile of books I found a Hello Kitty wallet. There was someone a few feet away from me, facing away, who I thought worked at the store. I asked him, "Hey, do you work here, I found someone's wallet." He turned around and I stuttered, "Uh, no, I guess you don't." …

Me and my dad were in the elevator at the Claremont hotel in Berkeley. A man got in. My dad says, "wow, you really have the Kurt Vonnegut look!" . Uhm... because it was Vonnegut. Awkward and awesome at the same time.

It was more surprising to me that my dad, who calls fiction a pack of lies, actually knew his name,…

I encountered Andy Dwyer in the flesh literally struggling with a locked door. It was fabulous. My husband and I were going to Megan Mullally's band's concert that night and got there early to get seat assignments. As we walked away down a side street a dude was yanking away doggedly at an exterior door, but that…

Friend of mine was high school friends with Neil Young's son, Ben, who happens to have cerebral palsy and is wheelchair-bound. I'd hear of his friend from California many times, and know about his CP, and how he travels with assistants, etc, but never knew about who his dad was. My friend told me that Ben was going…

BookExpo America in Chicago, 2004. I was at a late-night party for some erotica publishing company and I was not feeling it at all. It was late, I was tired, and BEA was winding down and it was really just time to go HOME already.

I've run across plenty of movie stars... But.the two celebrity encounters I remember were the time I sat in a theater next to Gregory Peck (omg even in his 80s he looked like God!) and the time I met Madeline L'Engle and practically fainted in star struck fandom. Well, it was pretty cool to meet Jane Goodall,…

My story will never really win, I'm sure, because it is only bizarre because of the location.