Coldness: Witch’s [Broomstick] Levels
It’s 9.7 degrees out. That’s Kelvin, kids, so bundle up!
The news about Pete Townshend’s arrest just makes me sick. No matter how much I try to separate the art from the artist, there are some things that will color my perceptions. Hell, Roger Daltry running an aerobics studio colored my perceptions, so this certainly will. It’s mostly just sad. Went through this art/artist confusion just a couple of weeks ago when I bought a DVD of “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” for the kids. They already love Pee-Wee, have had tapes of the Playhouse show for years, and yet had never seen the movie. And the movie is incredibly funny. But it wasn’t so long ago that he was arrested again, and in this instance, it’s really hard to accept the space between art and artist. When someone who focuses on children turns out to have ulterior motives, that’s sickening and dismaying, and normally I wouldn’t have anything more to do with it. And I’m concerned that at some point they’ll hear something about the man who played Pee-Wee, and it’ll be a shock or scary to them that they can’t trust this character they think is so funny. Not sure how to handle that just yet, but it seems like I need to talk with them pre-emptively.
Had I mentioned that we’re measuring things with the Kelvin scale this morning?