I left home early yesterday morning to get to a staff meeting.They had some croissants, cheese, pastries, strawberries, grapes, and apple juice.I got some of that food so that I could sit through this meeting without feeling too uncomfortable.As usual, a couple of people talked for too long, so we ended up leaving later than scheduled.One of the guys tried to keep our attention focused on the proceedings by tossing Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups at us towards the end.I made my way out to work.After things settled down after out late start, I checked my messages.I got some bad news from my friend in Hayward.She was facing getting laid off from her job.She has a house and two sons living with her in that house.Will she have to face the prospect of going out to look for work after being at the same place for twenty years?I felt horrible. I checked my bank balance and felt pretty good that I saw the direct deposits into my checking account.The money pretty much undid the damage that paying for my A’s season ticket did.Before I left, I talked with one of the guys about the San Jose Sharks, Peyton Manning, Soupy Sales, Mike Douglas, Jean Simmons, Gene Simmons, and J.D. Salinger. I listened to Gordon Lightfoot’s “Back Here on Earth” album on my way home.I liked “The Circle is Small.”I watched “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” on DVD.I liked the animation, with its handmade look and bright colors.The movements of Snow White looked like they came from film footage of a real young girl.I liked a couple of the songs, like “Heigh-Ho” and “Someday My Prince Will Come.”The positive qualities were almost enough to make me forget the sexist elements in the film.

　　Some of the age of the film is apparent in the music.Snow White’s demeanor is so sickly sweet and oblivious to evil that I started to want the queen to win in the end.Let Snow White sleep forever.At least the queen, Snow White’s stepmother, brought some energy and life into the story.

　　I thought the scene of Snow White cleaning up the seven dwarfs’ house, and the introduction of the dwarfs, went on for too long.A lot of the humor seemed to be at Dopey’s expense.I had to believe that since these seven little men were living in an isolated house deep in the forest, away from all other humans, they had to all be homosexuals.They liked jewels, and they showed an unnatural interest in Snow White’s discussion of Prince Charming, even sighing at the end.Now if that’s not gay behavior, I don’t know what it.The number of dwarfs we see is seven, an odd number, which is quite meaningful.From this, you can deduce that at least one of the dwarfs has multiple sex partners.Good bets are Grumpy, who shows an unusual aggression in his behavior, and Doc, who is the apparent leader of this band of sex-crazed perverts.

　　As the dwarfs go off to work in the morning, Snow White kisses them each on the head, which is insulting.She thinks she’s better than they are because she’s taller.She’s kind of like Randy Newman singing “Short People.”When the dwarfs start crying after she has eaten the poisoned apple, they cry, which is an indication of their gay lifestyle.If they weren’t gay, Snow White would have given all of them oral sex during the night, which would have explained their remarkable happiness in the morning.As it was, it had to be something different.

　　I think the sequence I liked the most was the dwarfs chasing the queen disguised as the old hag up the rocks.I think there was a similar sequence in “Sleeping Beauty.”It gave a brief charge to the movie, with a character teetering on the verge of death.There was another frightening suggestion that there was a human heart in a box at one point.It would have been cool if we could actually have seen it, but then the movie wouldn’t have been rated G.

　　I think the dwarfs I identified with the most were Grumpy and Sleepy.Those are my two most common states of mind.I can’t sympathize with the prince or the queen, of course, because they’re too high up on the economic ladder.Do they do any work at all?The prince goes riding around on a horse looking for girls.The queen spends her days looking at herself in a mirror.She can’t handle the fact that she is aging.She is kind of like Joan Rivers.

　　This isn’t my favorite Disney animated film.That would probably be “101 Dalmatians.”I haven’t seen “Dumbo” in a long time.I liked that one a lot, too, at one time.The Disney appeal faded for a while, and came back with “The Great Mouse Detective,” but now I am not enticed to go out and see “The Princess and the Frog.”

　　I watched the news with Katie Couric.She ended her broadcast with a story on the New Orleans Saints and how they’re bringing life to a community devastated by a disaster.OK, what if they now lose the Super Bowl?

　　I watched part of the special features disc of “Zodiac.”I wanted to watch the interviews with the real-life investigators and witnesses.I wanted to have a look at the ciphers in the case.One of the survivors was as annoying as he was in the movie.There was another feature on the prime suspect in the case, Arthur Leigh Allen.The movie suggested that he was the Zodiac killer.After watching all this stuff, I wasn’t so sure.

　　I was disappointed that the rain returned.I could hear it during the night.I watched part of “NUMB3RS,” which was a rerun.I didn’t like seeing Amita so involved in these cases.I saw Eric Clapton in a commercial for T-Mobile, and I wondered if he really used all that stuff, and if Buddy Guy used that stuff.