Pumpkin Spice and the Season of Delicious Poor Decisions
Danny Browning
October 2024 - NEWS4U Evansville
October 2024 - NEWS4U Evansville
October is here! Time to say goodbye to beach towels and sunburns and say hello to falling leaves and anxious pumpkin farmers excited to show us their gourds.
We trade in summer clothes and ice cream for sweater weather, and all the Halloween candy our teeth can take. This time of year has something for everyone with its crisp air and changing leaves. For me, it’s a time when we come together as a people and embrace the cultural phenomenon that is pumpkin spice! Whether it’s a pumpkin spice latte, oatmeal, candle, coffee, muffins, donuts, ice cream, lip balm, bath bombs, or, believe it or not, pumpkin spice salsa, we cheerfully let this deliciousness take over our lives in every imaginable way.
Hands down, my favorite is pumpkin beer. The inventor is clearly a drunken genius sent from the heavens. This person knows how to be part scientist, part chef, and probably part hermit. No matter the sacrifice, the creator found a union of flavors that is arguably the greatest of all time. They go together like other legendary pairings: peanut butter & jelly, Oreos & ice cream, Donnie & Marie, and Fall Festival fried food with ranch dressing. I'm always down for a cold one. Whether I'm in Newburgh enjoying a haunted lantern walk or taking part in the Zombie 5K, there's nothing that gives me more of the autumn spirit than getting slightly intoxicated and belching up warm pumpkin breath.
You may think I'm a bit unhinged, like a pumpkin spice puppet controlled by a delicious addiction, and you're right. It started with a latte and quickly turned into waking up in the afternoon to visions of pumpkin spice clouds. Lost in a world of orange and cinnamon, I was a slave to the pumpkin dragon. I'm good now, though.
Anyways, the owner of this fine publication, Brian, asked me to write a column about local comedy shows during the month of October. Clearly, I shouldn't have been enjoying a pumpkin-spiced beverage while doing so.
We trade in summer clothes and ice cream for sweater weather, and all the Halloween candy our teeth can take. This time of year has something for everyone with its crisp air and changing leaves. For me, it’s a time when we come together as a people and embrace the cultural phenomenon that is pumpkin spice! Whether it’s a pumpkin spice latte, oatmeal, candle, coffee, muffins, donuts, ice cream, lip balm, bath bombs, or, believe it or not, pumpkin spice salsa, we cheerfully let this deliciousness take over our lives in every imaginable way.
Hands down, my favorite is pumpkin beer. The inventor is clearly a drunken genius sent from the heavens. This person knows how to be part scientist, part chef, and probably part hermit. No matter the sacrifice, the creator found a union of flavors that is arguably the greatest of all time. They go together like other legendary pairings: peanut butter & jelly, Oreos & ice cream, Donnie & Marie, and Fall Festival fried food with ranch dressing. I'm always down for a cold one. Whether I'm in Newburgh enjoying a haunted lantern walk or taking part in the Zombie 5K, there's nothing that gives me more of the autumn spirit than getting slightly intoxicated and belching up warm pumpkin breath.
You may think I'm a bit unhinged, like a pumpkin spice puppet controlled by a delicious addiction, and you're right. It started with a latte and quickly turned into waking up in the afternoon to visions of pumpkin spice clouds. Lost in a world of orange and cinnamon, I was a slave to the pumpkin dragon. I'm good now, though.
Anyways, the owner of this fine publication, Brian, asked me to write a column about local comedy shows during the month of October. Clearly, I shouldn't have been enjoying a pumpkin-spiced beverage while doing so.
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Danny Browning is a nationally touring stand-up comedian, clean corporate entertainer, and monthly humor columnist for News4U Evansville. Based in Southern Indiana, he has performed at comedy clubs, corporate galas, and nonprofit fundraisers across Indianapolis, Louisville, Evansville, Cincinnati, and beyond, including the Improv, the Funny Bone, and stages alongside Norm MacDonald, Jim Norton, and Jennifer Coolidge.
Comedy & Curiosities is his attempt to be funny without a microphone. It's going okay. |
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Danny Browning | Comedian, Humorist & Monthly Troublemaker for News4U