The Car Dealership Stole Change Out Of My Car

Maggie Sperry
Jul 29, 2024
5 min read

Clifford, my car, is really having a sh*t time right now. The check engine light is blinking so the car won't accelerate and my car appointment isn't for a while. This is my 4th car appointment in the past 30 days but my last one resulted in a new starter and at least $5 worth of change being stolen out of the back of my car. Moral of the story: Don't leave the baggie of change you planned on dumping in a Coinstar machine in the back of your car at a Kia Dealership.

PS: I am tired and it is hot out. Happy Paris Olympics!

Books I Have Read Recently

I'm in my graphic novel era

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart → Very okay book. There was a fun little plot twist (that I was able to guess.) I think we were liars is a pretty good book but if I were to critique it I'd say a little less romantic subplot and a little more hate for the rich.

The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell → I didn't realize until halfway through that the author also has a podcast called Sounds Like A Cult which is alright but sometimes a reach. This book taught me nothing, and I wouldn't consider myself a very self-helping person so that's kinda saying something. It was also made for people a little older than me. That being said nothing in here was wrong or offensive so it was a fine read.

The Guest List by Lucy Foley → This book was boring. I thought it was going to be a murder mystery but end the end it was just trying to prove the person that died deserved to die. Could have been good but it was weighed down by bad characters and people who wanted to cheat on their spouses.

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag → Beautiful, lovely, dark, atmospheric. Now this is a picture book, for lack of a better term. But the illustrations are gorgeous I urge you to check out Simon Stålenhag's website here. And the narrative part is really good, he's building a world! Soon to be made into a movie starring Millie Bobby Brown.

House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski → I did it! 🙌 They said it couldn't be done but I did it! We love an obtusely thick book with way too many footnotes, written in a hard-to-read font. But for real, the part about the house, about the Navidson Records, was very good. Johnny tho, was annoying.

Dead Boy Detectives → This was the only one the library has but it seems it's like 7th in The Sandman series so I was a little confused. The art was not great in a large portion of the comic, but then it got good, then got bad. The plot was fine and the filler art was amazing.

Longlegs? More Like The Devil

This contains SPOILERS for the movie Longlegs.

I know everyone was waiting with baited breaths to know what I thought about Longlegs. Just Kidding! For those that don't pay attention to movies, Longlegs is one of Neon's newest "horror" movie releases, directed by Oz Perkins starring Maika Monroe as the main detective and featuring Nicholas Cage as the titular Longlegs.

Longlegs is a beautifully shot film, it's got amazing shots and really makes you feel the vibe it wanted you to feel. The vibe being unsettling. Having looked at interviews with the director and listening to what he said the movie was about and what it was drawing from, I get it, I promise. According to Inverse.com the director said “Longlegs, really, at its core, is a parenting movie. It's a movie that asks the question: 'Is it right or is it wrong to do this or that as a parent?" And at the end of the movie, there is a parent who makes some decisions for their child that may or may not have led to the death of a bunch of people, so like I get it.

BUT HERES THE THING, that wasn't the plot of the movie. The plot was about solving a murder, a really interesting murder, following a rookie detective who had some form of psychic intuition. But that was kinda dropped at the end. The movie stopped being the movie it was built up to be and became a movie where the devil is real. SPOILER the devil made the fathers kill their families, I guess with the power of THE DEVIL. And that ruined it. Because you cannot arrest the devil, you cannot stop the devil, and more importantly the devil is THE DEVIL. And that's dumb (in my opinion.)

This film, and most films like this one, is scary because it's a human. Humans killing other humans is much more scary, more unsettling, more likely than the devil. Especially with Longlegs being a scary-looking man, they had the capacity for a movie about a human somehow outsmarting the police and convincing fathers they needed to kill their entire families. But at the end Longlegs is reduced to a man who builds dolls with bits of Satan in their heads and nothing else.

And don't even get me started on how underused the dolls were!

But it's not a bad movie the acting is good, the directing is good, and it looks amazing. Don't write it off I'm not saying it's bad but it didn't meet my expectations.

T.V. Time!

Here is a list of shows I want to finish watching or I'm currently watching.

Doom Patrol → Like paw patrol but they hate cops. DC show, it's an action comedy about the worst superheroes ever. I love them all and the show is very funny!

Watch on Max

Mrs. Davis → I have been watching this with my roommate and honestly, I could not guess where this show is going. But it's funny, it's weird, it's fun.

Watch on Peacock

Evil → This psychologist is working with a priest (but he's a cool priest) and a contractor (my fav character) to see if things are really the work of demons and angels or just someone having a psychotic break/ lying. Hint: they are mostly lying but demons are real.

Watch on Netflix

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder→ The acting is bad, her accent is bad, and she is a bad detective. But the show had me a little gagged, kinda crazy. It's also based on the book of the same name. Coming to American Netflix 8/1.

Watch on Netflix