Dr. Joy Browne

Mon Oct 6, 2008

2008-10-07T12:45:00.002-04:00

wow, did i ever love seeing the blue grass musical, "that other woman's child" until the fire, yeah, i said the fire. when you're on the third floor of a packed house, a fire, complete with smoke and smell is less than reassuring. four fire trucks, an hour on the sidewalk and a second act that had a hard time competing with reality, but fun nonetheless.

Aug 1, 2008

2008-08-01T13:18:00.003-04:00

i know you're used to me complaining about tourists and how they don't know how to walk and think this is disneyland. but...i just want y'all to know, i redeemed myself tourist karma wise today. i helped not one, but two, count 'em two groups of tourists. the first confused the world trade center and the world financial center which are not only on different sides of the highway, but also pretty different. one is a huge office building with a gorgeous soaring atrium and the other is a huge, upsetting ex hole in the ground that is currently a sorta constuction project. i showed them the scenic way to view both along the water. so there.

i then, only moments later, showed a woman how to find the post office, so there, talk about helpful. i'm going to apply for my merit badbe. no more bad marks from the chamber of commerce.

First weekend, first problem...

2008-06-02T14:42:00.005-04:00

ok so i have spent my first weekend in the new place... but someone's shower has alas, leaked into my apartment. The architect said he would find the leak... but I think the leak is from his apartment!!!!
So, in the meantime... deeeeep... cleaaansing.. breaths....and pots and pans....filled to the brim with the architect's bath water.

All over the living room. NOT good.

Memorial Day equals grilled sausage and sunblock?

2008-05-27T14:33:00.001-04:00

I was in Gettysburg over the weekend, and somehow the fact that it is still May and that I was on a double decker bus made me forget I NEED SUNBLOCK! I had a hat, and actually at one point tried to barter pretzels for sunblock from a biker chick, but to no avail. So now, alas, I have disguisting tan lines of which I am incredibly embarrassed. Everyone at the station has commented on how red I look. Sigh....By the way, a British friend of mine commented on the weirdness of having a holiday to commemorate soldiers who have died protecting the country by eating burned sausages on the lawn and getting sunburned. Sometimes, its a bit tricky to explain the American way.

It's a Matter of Taste!

2008-05-23T14:27:00.000-04:00

I had a rather large fight with a friend today about the placement of a female nude sculpture. It is a full frontal nude sculpture seductively posed. His wonderful girlfriend didn't want it in the bedroom (tsk, tsk... no taste whatsoever). My friend, however, thought it was a work of art and I am on his side with this one.…what do you think?

Lost and found and found again!

2008-05-22T14:26:00.000-04:00

You know when you're moving and you are unable to find anything and everything had already been unpacked and you just can not find something very important and then all of a sudden....VOILA! You find it and the world becomes a bettter place…however by this point you've renounced all material possessions because it’s just too darn stressful. I think I am about to get a toga and a mountain top, but then all these shoes would be for nothing! <>

Girl Scout Cookies

2008-05-21T14:17:00.000-04:00

So I read a story on air today about a girl that broke the record for selling girl scout cookies. Believe it or not *I* was the girl scout POSTER girl. Yeah, yeah I know...I sold girl scout cookies. I had two full sashes completely covered with merit badges... they looked like bandoliers, and I wore them crossed like Che Guevera! I guess Scouts HQ never found out about my days playing poker with guys from the air force academy & watching them cut down trees in a national forest for campfire.

Harrison Ford and my new place!

2008-05-19T14:13:00.000-04:00

So I went to the movies this weekend to preview the new Indiana Jones flick! And guess whom I brought? My handsome (and yes, single, ladies!) producer, Mike! My review of this latest installment of the Indy franchise will be out this Thursday... so be sure to tune into the Browne Buzz. In the meantime, I am moving into my new apartment and the movers broke some of my stuff, just great! Not happy with that in the least. I love my new place, even with the broken furniture and half open cardboard boxes! I'm sure I will have many new adventures here. I hope to get a photo soon of the view.... I'm right on the Hudson. So romantic at night …

What's My Line Photos- Click here

2008-05-16T14:07:00.000-04:00

What's My Line Photos- Click hereI recently participated in a NYC Production of "What's My Line? " and it was a blast ! Click here to see my photos.

Geraniums and Ironman

2008-05-14T14:02:00.000-04:00

My plant lust has been temporarily assuaged: Geraniums,(germania?)& Coleus rule and I even got some rain this morning. I stopped at Home Depot, which had a ton, but the green market had more of a variety and they were fresher...oooeee. Speaking of weekend satisfaction, make sure you see Ironman. Downey rocks, Jeff has shaved his noggin and Gwyneth looks sweet.

Its time to start my gardening projects!

2008-05-12T13:56:00.000-04:00

Well spring has certainly sprung! As a result, in addition to hay fever, I've gotten my annual spring urge to PLANT. I always do it a bit early and end up with tulipsicles I have to replant, but fortunately, this year, my lust was offset by an inability to find flats of anything to plant. Obviously ma nature is messin' with me, but the green market has my back. Beware, this weekend, I am a woman on a mission to get my hands dirty and my deck done. Stay tuned.

mia

2008-01-18T14:53:00.001-05:00

ok, sorry i've been missing in action and i promise to be more diligent in terms of making blogging more of a priority so i don't disappoint. give me til monday, ok?

where have i been?

2007-11-12T11:37:00.000-05:00

no excuses: yeah i know, moving, yadda, yadda, time change, yadda, yadda, flu, yadda, yadda,..but still. seen lots of theatre lately, like five plays over the weekend, some really good stuff, mostly off broadway since broadway is on strike as you're probably aware. don't miss michael cumpsty as richard iii on 13th street and i liked secret order at 59 e 59th. had a lovely dinner with a cockroach (won't mention the restaurant since it really was lovely and they were frightfully embarrassed). can't believe next week is thanksgiving, yea gods and then you know what is just around the corner (speaking of which fred claus is better than it should have been). what's your stance on buying stuff at street fairs? -- no not food. it's just such a fun way to shop and it seems sorta fun.

i swear, i'm going to call the mayor's office and put together a treatise on manners at the theatre for parents and kids. it's not the kids' faults, it's parents who think their whiny tots running commentary is too precious for the rest of us to miss. bah humbug.

no good deed

2007-10-12T11:33:00.000-04:00

last nite, a really cool organization called face to face that does plastic reconstructive surgery on women who have been beaten honored me which was lovely. getting there was not....the driver who collected me how no idea how to get there, nor did i and he kept hollering at me to give him a street address (it was at a hall in eisenhower park in fresh meadows or something...i live in nyc...i need a shot and passports to go thru a tunnel or across a bridge...) i told him he should call his dispatcher to find out directions. it took nearly a half hour to get him to at least get on the l.i.e. he spent fifteen minits telling me i was rude. i ignored him for ten or so, then called his dispatcher and said i didn't need this. we got stuck in traffic for three hours with the event planners calling every half hour to figure out where i was. it became clear, that not only did he have no idea how to drive or navigate, but also, couldn't see, so i was directed to the place via by cell phone by our hosts and telling him when to turn. he kept missing turns and we were nearly wiped out by an suv when he swerved after missing yet another turn-off. the only reason i can blog today is that there was a grassy median rather than cement or it would have been good nite irene.

lamentably, he waited to take me home and even tho returning included a gps and well marked signs, he again kept missing clearly marked turns. i had decided to sleep on the way home until the gps kept saying, "recalculating". figured if i wanted to arrive home in one piece in this century, i'd best navigate.

just before he dropped me, he said, let's be friends. right....as long as i never have to get any where near your car ever again.

i promise my blogs will become a bit more upbeat as soon as the packing is finished, next week.

oh btw, if you're trying to find me, they switched the time i'm played in nyc til nine and nite on 710 wor, tho i still record from noon until three, so feel free to call at 800 544 7070. relatively easy to get thru these days. you can still download me for free to your ipod, go to drjoy.com and i'm streamed online nearly 24/7, on wor710.com from noon to three and six to nine and then nine to eleven, so don't be a stranger.

changes

2007-10-08T11:43:00.000-04:00

human beings are homeostatic by nature; i.e., we tend to be change abhorrent, even those of us who see ourselves as thrill seekers. for those of you who are used to hearing me in nyc from noon to two, you can still hear me on line and call me, but the program will now be carried in ny from nine to eleven p.m. so you can call in and then hear yourself later. for those of you who listen in different markets, you hopefully will continue to listen and to call. the downloads to your ipods are still free and i'll be streamed from noon to three and again from nine to eleven. never a bad idea of check drjoy.com for upcoming events including a bunch of personal appearances, movie and theatre reviews and my latest spa experience to recover from the dreaded moving experience. it never rains, but it pours.

a moving experience

2007-10-02T11:35:00.000-04:00

ok, i admit it; i'm incredibly whiny today. the cause? i love my apartment and i'm moving...where has all this junk come from and and how did it get so filthy...people have been asking if i'm sure i want to move and i have been ambivalent 'til now and today, i would happily burn the whole place to the ground. talk about your basic letting go! clearly packing was invented to allow you to move on.

people's reactions in my building have also been fascinating, especially if you're a psychologist, which i happen to be. one of my neighbors came and gave me a hug with tears in his eyes and said what a friend i'd been, a couple of the guys said they won't help me pack 'cause they don't want me to go -- and then there is the insult scenario: you'll hate the new place, you'll never find a better building, the building won't be the same now that your eccentricity is gone...eccentricity...? i wash, don't own even one cat the don't hear voices coming out my faucet. i felt like i'd jilted him.

the local thrift shops adore me, and the idea of nice and clean and new is fun. but man, the boxes and the tape and the purging, ain't.

a few things

2007-09-18T15:39:00.000-04:00

for those of us who are healthy, throwing a back out is a dramatic and humbling reminder of how hard and debilitating it is to live with pain and even when it takes me twenty minutes to stand upright, i remind myself that it's temporary, has happened before and will pass, eventually, but mamma mia...thank heavens for health cause if you're healthy, you've got time and if you've got time, everything will work out.

love, love, love this time of year. went to penn state tailgating for the second time. makes me long to be closer to my alma mater but incredibly glad i'll never have to be an undergrad again. too much insecurity. i love being an adult even with wrinkles.

i'm about to move and while i don't think of myself as a packrat, boy do i have a lot of stuff. when i start out, i think, well...maybe...by the end of the evening, everything gets tossed. got some free time -- come help me wrap china or maybe throw it at the wall. i'm going to simplify, i swear.

sorry, it's been too long between blogs, but i promise to try and keep up though i should probably be packing...any excuse to not wrap and box...reminiscent of baking bread rather than writing my thesis. thanks for being patient with me.

she's baaaack

2007-08-27T12:42:00.000-04:00

ok, my little chickadees: i was hiking in the adirondacks and then doing the morning show, up at 3 a.m. as well as mine and the blog got back burnered. please forgive. summer is nearly over and i, for one, love the fall. ok, so i was born in october, but still, dependably good weather every place.

doing the morning show gave me a chance to appreciate my own gig, tho other than the hours, it's much easier than my deal. having a co-host is fun, but don't look for me to do a change of venue anytime soon. i'm one of those folks that like shaking things up every once in awhile, either to learn new things or appreciate the old.

loved the hiking; i smile everytime i look at my grubby little hiking boots which make mountain climbing so much easier, especially going downhill; sneakers are too darn slippery, and i'm sorta klutzy.

looking forward to football, cool temps and cleaning out my closets. if you haven't checked out drjoy.com may want to do it for theatre and movie reviews. gotta decide whether or not to do a new book this year. whaddya think?

gratitude.

2007-07-24T12:32:00.000-04:00

got to play with a brand new baby over the weekend, like less than 48 hours old. you forget what a miracle a new life is and how deer in the headlights new parents are. also, speaking of gratitude, folks seem realllllly sloppy these days about thank you notes, rsvping and other assorted mannerly behavior. and please, don't tell me an email is an ok thank you....it's not, unless what you are being grateful for is a virtual gift (ok, i also hate those ecards. email, yes; bad manners, no)

when in doubt

2007-07-19T11:53:00.000-04:00

yo cherubs: I know for alot of folks the explosion near grand central brought up some old anxieties about terrorism, mortality, vulnerability, etc. May I humbly offer a suggestion? When in doubt, assume, the same old same old. Pipes burst, things happen and if we all remain calm and DON'T assume that the bad guys are after us, we win, they lose. As they say, when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras...think ordinary, not unusual and there will be a whole lot less fear in your life. And for heaven's sake, do not spend a minute of your precious life being anymore afraid than you have to be and don't waste a moment seeing "I now pronounce you chuck and larry." talk about pollution...

goodbye to a friend

2007-07-11T12:50:00.000-04:00

you hear me say all the time that if something doesn't happen to you, it doesn't happen and i had a recent example of just that: i was away when my friend, Joel Siegel died last week. i found out as i was reading a mag on the train on the way to a screening. i knew he was very sick and had been for quite some time, but he was a fighter and wanted to stick around for his nine year old son. he trusted me enough to ask me to help him when he was too weak to fetch a cab or manage a staircase or needed someone to share an ice cream cone with tho he wouldn't talk movies with me. he said each of us had to come to our own conclusions (we didn't like the same things at all). he was cheerful and cranky, smart and silly and i shall miss him.

2007-07-03T11:56:00.000-04:00

well happy independence to y'all. just got home from west virginia. what a beautiful place and i saw alot more of the good old usa than anticipated. member the day they cancelled 1000 flights, well 3 of em were mine; and the amtrak only runs every other day, so we boogied on home in the rain with the banjos from deliverance trailing in our wake. please don't blow up any hands, eyes or neighbors in your celebration and make sure and use sunblock, my little chickadees.

2007-06-19T11:43:00.000-04:00

it's gay pride week in new york, which is always kinda festive. last nite i went to hear the gay men's chorus in the nokia center doing billy strayhorn. the nokia is a converted movie theatre and they did a great job; the chorus is always in fine form tho i turn out not to be a huge fan of billy. i did love the guy who was doing the signing for the audience and some of the gear was inspiring. my fondest memory of the gmc is at carengie hall with carol channing who pointed out that her voice was the lowest on stage...teehee. also went to a lincoln center event talking about all the cool summer programs.

on sunday, felt like i covered the emotional american landscape: saw stephen lang doing his one man show about the metal of honor winners called beyond honor and a cute cast downtown doing size zero about adolescent angst and bulimia.

all this was a reward for appearing at the wor health fair and introducing the crowd to yoga, breathing, self massage (not that kind) and a guided visualization and relaxation which was then able to be purchased. got to meet and greet lots of folks.

is new york fun or what?

the other tony

2007-06-11T11:33:00.000-04:00

i suspect most of y'all were watching tony and the gang last nite, but i was glued to the tonys, get the pun, teehee, which is always a terrific show and last nite didn't disappoint; the musical numbers are all smooth, since they've been doing 'em eight times a week and seeing the legends. ok, so alot of the dresses and hairdos were a little lame, but the speeches were terrific; two surprises, one delightful, one ridiculous, but i'll let you sort that out on your own. viva la broadway, though if we'd been subjected to one more promo for the new viva laughlin show i would have thrown something at the tv and could cbs have been more venal about promoting their shows and talent? hey folks - it's about theatre, not tv. ah well.

connection

2007-06-06T11:46:00.000-04:00

i'm getting so into this blogging thing that my assistant has convinced me to jump into this techno geekdom full tilt and yeah, i'm going for it...myspace...i'm also just putting the finishing touches on a parade article about snooping and a relaxation and visualization tape. spring is here, life is good, the program is jumping these days and none of us should sweat the small stuff and yeah, most if not all of it is small stuff. toodles

2007-05-31T11:22:00.000-04:00

wow, summer has arrived with a vengeance...and who died and left donald trump in charge? is there anything or anyone on which he isn't an authority??? my momma always said if you don't have sumpin' nice to say...guess momma trump subscribed to a different set of sayings. now americans aren't feeling so bad about being overweight since it turns out europeans are in equally wretched shape and even mediterraneans aren't eating the mediterranean diet. sigh. aren't we all always struggling with weight? for those of you who are interested in trying to lose a little weight and want to try a different approach, i'm making a relaxation and visualization tape which will be available for a modest fee in the next coupla weeks at drjoy.com let me know if you 1. have any interest 2. want to hear a sample 3. if you decide to purchase it ($10) how you feel about it. it runs about 15 minits and can be used for stress reduction, weight loss or nicotine withdrawl. (sorry to be so commercial, but i'm kinda psyched).

went to gettysburg for memorial day which is always a sobering but important experience. if you've never been, i highly recommend it.

fame

2007-05-23T11:47:00.000-04:00

doesn't good weather just put a smile on your face. i was at a gala thingabobby the other nite and was struck by how different people handle fame. it's kinda like liquor, it makes people more who they already are....gracious, charming, angry, funny, spacey, not kevin. it is fun to get all dressed up tho my date got tomato sauce on his tux shirt. sigh.

perfection is in the details

2007-05-18T11:25:00.000-04:00

isn't it amazing how we get derailed by the trivial? human if a bit disconcerting. for example, i noticed on the train this morning that there is a huge reebok campaign about slowing down and smelling the roses or your feet or something which is kinda cool, except the word "everything" was spelled without the r; think of all the people who proofed that campaign and missed the missing r. attention to detail folks, attention to detail and don't get distracted by the irrlevant, the unusual, the trivial. right? right!

pop psychology

2007-05-14T11:21:00.000-04:00

am i a happy camper or what?! guess what my trusty assistant via a listener had posted on my puter this a.m.....yeah, virtual bubble wrap and of course, i instantly went to the manic mode (their term, not mine) and popped away...does that make me a pop psychologist?? speaking of which, i've got an article coming out in maximum men's health on 3 july and one in parade tba. did a bit of gardening over the weekend...does this mean i'm becoming english?? thank goodness for neosporin. gotta get some gloves.

how to spell

2007-05-09T15:15:00.000-04:00

the word apparently is cenacle. i made it too complicated, cute li'l me.

2007-05-09T11:42:00.000-04:00

okay my little adorablenesses: i have now done it; my broadway debut has been launched as have i. i was on stage for an hour last nite, not only spelling (not all that well, but i knew everybody else's words...) singing, dancing, reacting and just having fun. i expected to be up there for five minits or so and the audience asked me how long i'd rehearsed afterwards and wanted to know who was my agent. so have your people call my people. oh, the show...of course the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee and yes, i have my juice carton even tho i couldn't find my downfall word in the dictionary having to do with religion, gulp...medicine i can spell, religion, lucky not to get hit by lightning, the word was synochelle, tho i'm still not sure that's the right spelling...stay tuned for my tony nomination, guess it will have to be next year.

tomorrow's my broadway debut

2007-05-07T11:26:00.000-04:00

yeah, you guessed it, i've always wanted to be a great actress, but if you're a tall skinny flat chested kid, fugettaboutit. but tomorrow nite...i'm a speller at the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee....i know it can't spell, but...actually i've already trod the boards...i've hosted a gazillion talk backs, but this, this folks is my true debut. i'll tell you how it went. hugs and be well. (and putnam isn't nearly three hours which is the length of everything i've seen in the last coupla weeks..deets on wednesday during the reviews...)

mercury has got to be retrograde

2007-04-27T16:31:00.001-04:00

for all of you who are thinking about emigrating to seattle, is it the
weather or is mercury. somehow those of us who are not used to rainy,
cloudy days seem to be affected more by icky weather than those stalwart
souls who inhabit the great northwest, inclduing my daughter who swears
that's why there is so much caffeine consumption (can you say starbucks?)

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My blog is coming soon.

2006-08-19T22:08:00.000-04:00

Hey, I got this far, right?

I will start regularly writing to my blog soon. For now, keep listening to me on the radio, or my podcasts online.

Thanks for visiting DrJoy.com!