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Twelve Steps to Sandra — October 15, 2025

🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩
Bullock Betrayal🎥
Uranus🌌
Dyfunctional🎶

THE DAILY UPDATE

Hi. My name is John. And I don’t like Sandra Bullock.

“Hi John.”

It has been 22 hours since I last said I didn’t like Sandra Bullock. Taking a cue from Boy The Elder, who is involved with a workplace movie club that ends their team meetings, I brought the idea to my day job. A member of our small but mighty team picks a movie, we watch it, we discuss it at our next team meeting, we pick another movie. It’s simple. It’s fun.

Until someone picked Practical Magic.

Now, I understand I am not the target audience for the concept of Practical Magic. They could have cast anyone in the lead roles and I wouldn’t have been interested. But they went ahead and cast Muricah’s Favorite Sweetheart, Sandra Bullock.

I do not like Sandra Bullock.

Of course, I don’t know exactly why I don’t like Sandra Bullock, and to be fair, this does not mean I have anything personal against Sandra Bullock. I’m sure she’s a kind, sweet, funny, giving, loving person. Or maybe she’s not. The point is: I have nothing on which to base my dislike of Sandra Bullock.

Ya know how if you hear the buzzing of a fly near your head, you instinctively just don’t like that fly? That fly is just bein’ a fly, and all of a sudden, you don’t like it. It could be a perfectly nice fly just trying to live his perfectly good fly life. But suddenly, you don’t want that fly anywhere near you. Ya know that feeling?

That’s how I feel about Sandra Bullock.

I can tolerate her in Speed. Barely. But in looking back at her IMDB credits, there isn’t a single other movie she has been a part of that, in my stupid opinion, that I would recommend to a friend. Gravity comes close, if only she were the one to float off into the deepest reaches of space, not George Clooney.

My opinion is a very unpopular opinion to hold in Muricah. She did, after all, supplant Julia Roberts as Muricah’s Favorite Sweetheart. The Everygirl. The Woman Next Store. And maybe that’s part of my problem. I was kinda into Julia Roberts, TBH.

When I confessed my sin at my workplace movie club, the younger members of the team looked at me as if I just set fire to a Murican flag and kicked a puppy while doing so. One co-worker even told me she texted her husband to let him know of this weird old dude (my words, not hers) who doesn’t like Sandra Bullock (her words … and mine). He said, “I guess your next pick should be Miss Congeniality.”

Oh dear God, no.

And so, in an attempt to be more WorkPopular, here I am, at my first meeting of Sandra Bullock-Haters Anonymous. Good to see everyone. Let’s hit them 12 steps, shall we?

  1. I admit I was powerless over my dislike of Sandra Bullock, that my life had become irrationally focused on avoiding her movies.
    (Acceptance of my aversion)
  2. I have come to believe that only a force like Sandra Bullock can restore my peace of mind.
    (Faith in a Bullock higher power)
  3. I make a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of someone who can regularly quote Miss Congeniality.
    (Surrender my Bullock-free existence)
  4. I make a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself, questioning why I flinch at the mention of The Blind Side.
    (Deep self-reflection on my cinematic biases)
  5. I admit to myself, to my friends, my workplace colleagues, and to the universe the exact nature of my Sandra Bullock-related grievances.
    (Owning my opinions, however unpopular)
  6. I am entirely ready to let go of my knee-jerk reactions to Sandra Bullock’s presence in pop culture.
    (Willingness to change my perspective)
  7. I humbly asked for help in overcoming my irrational dislike of  Sandra Bullock’s rom-com dominance.
    (Seeking help with humility)
  8. I make a list of all the people I’ve annoyed by ranting about Sandra Bullock, and became willing to make amends.
    (Acknowledging the social cost of my opinions)
  9. I make direct amends wherever possible, except when doing so would require watching Speed again.
    (Taking action with boundaries)
  10. I continue to take personal inventory and promptly admit when I unfairly criticized Sandra Bullock’s acting.
    (Ongoing self-awareness and fairness)
  11. I seek through reflection and Bullock movie marathons to improve my emotional balance and tolerance.
    (Seeking peace through cinematic alternatives)
  12. Having had a breakthrough in my Sandra Bullock aversion, I try to help others who suffer similarly, and to practice tolerance in all my affairs.
    (Sharing the journey and embracing growth)

That is my story.

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*Takes a deep breath. Pledges to be mature. Begins …* Really Smart Person researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a new moon swirling around Uranus. In doing so, they found the 29th such moon sticking in orbit around the best named planet in any galaxy ever.

The moon was missed by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft when it whizzed by Uranus nearly 40 years ago. Oopsie.

It is estimated to be a tiny moon, just six miles in diameter, which will inevitably lead to a huge fight among land developers trying to build on the prime resort spots first. Right now, the new moon is being called Moon S/2025 U1, which is a horrible and uninventive name unbefitting of the Great Uranus. But it hopes to someday be given a more apt name and join the likes of its 28 brothers and sisters, some of whom go by the names Puck, Belinda, Rosalind, and Bianca.

Contentment Creator: Not watching or reading the national/world news.

Song of the Day: Dysfunctional You, by Shinedown

Meaningful Lyric From the SOTD:
And go on and be your dysfunctional self
Life’s too short to play someone else
‘Cause being normal is just a trap
But you’re never so gone that you can’t turn back
So go on and be unpredictable
Shatter the glass when it’s half full
The audience has waited all this time
You’re well-rehearsed and you know your lines
So introduce them to
The wonderful dysfunctional you

Recent Ear Stuff:

  • My Commute Tunes today were …
    • Life Is Beautiful, SixxA.M.
    • Footsteps, Pop Evil
    • Unforgettable, Godsmack
    • Nobody Praying For Me, Seether
    • Fad In/Fade Out, Nothing More
    • Lowlife, Theory of a Deadman

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