Mommies Who Drink

Forget the expected scenes of motherhood-women gathered together to swap recipes and remedies for colicky babies. Actress/writer Brett Paesel and her girlfriends manage to grab a happy hour on Friday afternoons at their favorite watering hole. Paesel reveals how she copes with the weekly transformation from single swinger back to wife and mother of two. In her hilarious introduction, she dreams of doing cocaine in the back of a limo, but pregnancy yoga classes, toddler play dates, and pediatrician visits interfere. Paesel tells it like it is, with an irresistible blend of good humor, painful anxieties, including the agonies of childhood illnesses, and offbeat advice. This is a must for hip new moms. M.T.B. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

May 1, 2006
Paesel would love to spend "an evening doing half a gram of coke in the back of a limo with her girlfriends" and still craves "a stranger to fuck me blind in a parking lot after loading me up on margaritas and Thai stick"—only she's got a husband, a baby and a toddler waiting for her at home. Paesel couldn't care less if other mothers have careers (she herself is an actress who's appeared on Six Feet Under
and Mr. Show
) or stay home with the kids. She's got bigger problems—like, what's happened to all the parties? This collection of short sketches opens with a trip to an L.A. prenatal yoga class, where "gorgeous actresses" with "little round bellies" brag about how much birthing pain they plan to endure. With enough drugs, Paesel actually enjoys childbirth—but full-time parenting is another story. Luckily, she's got a foursome of girlfriends who spend Friday afternoons at the local bar together, doing a reality check on all the mothering guilt trips they've had to endure all week. This is Seinfeld
but raunchy and L.A. with a full cast of potty-mouthed moms. No wonder it's already optioned by HBO.