more summer tv: The O.C., also: ugly buildings and the end of weather whining (for now)

[ratcreature]

Now featuring much too long subject lines, indicative of entries with no structure or point whatsoever...

Anyway, the O.C.: I've watched the first two episodes, and I see the slash potential, but somehow the characters haven't really clicked with me. I mean obviously I like teen angst -- otherwise, would I watch shows like Everwood? -- but for

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I was looking at some of the bunker photos and just have to say-- although some are architecturally interesting, when they are ugly they are really, really ugly.

[ratcreature]

Yeah. I guess it is in part because many of them were built quickly during the war (I think that's also the reason that so many are overground, it's just quicker to build overground than to dig), and also there are limits as to how appealing you can make overground bunkers, that must have thick walls and lack windows. But another part is that generally the Nazi officials had a really rotten taste, at least if you are not into ugly megalomania with pseudo-nordic statutes and the like. Also clearly some of the concepts were deranged, I mean that huge bunker that I linked to as a prime example for their ugliness, was intended to be something like an autarkic fortress (it had independent electricity and wells for water etc.) where the people were supposed to hold out during a siege for months in case the city was occupied. That one is now afaik converted to office space, mostly for design, advertising and media companies (though I have a hard time to imagine that as a creative space) and there's also a dance club in there, but really I