of fashion and fillers

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Politics and death and destruction dominate, as always. The fashion week is finally over, thank god, people can finally get back to talking about babies or the heat or whatever it is we all talk about. The OC, if you ask me, is a good fall-back conversation piece. That is, if you even admit you watch it. I came out of the closet on this one very recently, very gingerly at first, to gauge reactions of nearest and dearest. Yes, yes, they scoffed, but only strengthened my resolve to be bold and admit in public! It's got a strange, hypnotic hold on me. I can't stand half the characters - who am I kidding?! I love them, almost all equally. But it's completely out of proportion with their actual characteristics...ryan, seth, marissa and gang aren't particularly well-fleshed out or deep at all. But they certainly have some hold....