Line Of The Day

Catherine Seipp has this:

By now I'm used to thinking differently from most people around me. Fantastically increased West Coast real-estate values mean no one would call Los Alamitos down-market today. When I was a child, though, it really was, at least by the standards of most people I hang around now.
My youth did not, alas, resemble that of the kids on The O.C. Bikinis were used not for dreamy wandering around mansions but for bodysurfing, which often ended with your face in the gravel and the bra part around your neck as boys pointed and laughed and yelled "Bitchen wipeout!" And these boys did not look like the charismatically cute Seth or Ryan on The O.C.; they looked like Meatloaf or Jughead or an adolescent, grease-stained Ozzie Osbourne — especially during my last year of high school, when for some reason I began hanging out with drag-racers.

Emphasis mine. This in an article defending Charles Johnson which is todays must read.