Exploiting My Baby : A Blog by Teresa Strasser http://teresastrasser.com/blog Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:04:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Merkel vs. Urkel http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/10/merkel-vs-urkel/ http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/10/merkel-vs-urkel/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:04:52 +0000 Teresa Strasser http://teresastrasser.com/blog/?p=1962 Posted in The List

Here’s another clip from my new show, The List.   According to Forbes, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the “Most Powerful Woman in the World.” I want to know if people know more about her than a sit-com character last seen in 1998.

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      I’m standing on the set of a television show, crammed into a burnt orange maternity dress and exposing my cankles in a pair Fit-Flops — the only shoes that still fit — feeling sweat drip down my spine while experiencing a mild contraction. It’s the final rehearsal before the launch of a [...]

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Here’s another clip from my new show, The List.   I may have no mojo when it comes to clairvoyance, but my fetus? That’s another story. He KNOWS things.

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]]> http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/09/my-fetus-can-predict-your-future/feed/ 0 Strangers at the Mall Help Me Pick a Baby Name http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/09/strangers-at-the-mall-help-me-pick-a-baby-name/ http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/09/strangers-at-the-mall-help-me-pick-a-baby-name/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:38:09 +0000 Teresa Strasser http://teresastrasser.com/blog/?p=1940 Posted in The List

So obviously I have been bad at blogging as of late. Sorry. I’ve been busy being fat and pregnant while also starting up a new hosting gig on The List, a nightly news/entertainment TV magazine. Needless to say life has been pretty nuts. Not to seem too lazy, but to keep you all in the loop, I’m [...]

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There is some unwritten statute of limitations on how long one can whine about a crappy childhood, a negligent parent, a few too many chicken pot pies, summers with the grandparents, days spent on Greyhound Busses and with dubious caregivers and creepy neighbors. There is just a moment in an adult’s life when the complaining [...]

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I’d like to go to my senior prom again, but not be blackout drunk with a 26 year-old date. For a brief period during which I hosted a basic cable decorating show, I was kind of famous. I wish I could be famous again, without having to emotionally implode from the cognitive dissonance of thinking [...]

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It had never come to my attention before a certain freckle-faced, scrawny, corduroy-pants-wearing bully named Robin brought it to my attention: I have freakishly small hands. I have hands like a carnie. I blame the bullies I knew before Robin for being off their game and letting the small hands slide. A bully’s whole raison [...]

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Today, I stopped home to change my outfit before picking up my kid from daycare. What, because you never know who might snap a photo as I lure my child into his car seat with the whispered promise of a Grover juice box? No one cares. Except now that I’m a parent, I care deeply [...]

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]]> http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/04/i-cant-be-the-badly-dressed-mom-at-pick-up-time/feed/ 7 When an Audition Makes you Feel Like Coco From “Fame” http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/03/when-an-audition-makes-you-feel-like-coco-from-fame/ http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/03/when-an-audition-makes-you-feel-like-coco-from-fame/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:00:25 +0000 Teresa Strasser http://teresastrasser.com/blog/?p=1750 Posted in General Stuff

  Coco is approached in a diner by a filmmaker who tells her he is casting a film he plans to shoot in the south of France. She goes to his apartment for a screen test, but there is no crew. And if you saw the movie “Fame,” this scene is as seared in your [...]

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As a mom looking for shit to do with a toddler, I’ve kissed some frogs, and not just the kind at the zoo’s house of amphibians. I try stuff. You never know what your kid might go for. And that’s how I came to visit the private home of a woman offering a bread baking [...]

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