Old York Style?

Cheesecake is some pretty good stuff. But people are always calling it "New York Style." What is non "New York Style" cheesecake? Does that mean it has fruit or something? I feel like I've seen "New York Style" with strawberries. Maybe I'm wrong. That answer seems too easy though. I will never doubt the capacity of the English language to completely obfuscate things/make things confusing, particularly in subjects where things can change, like the culinary world. So my hypothesis is that at some point in our recent history, we had cheesecake that was not "New York Style" and thus we needed that phrase in order to delineate between the two. Or perhaps it truly is a regional thing, and I've just never ventured to an area where another style is predominant.

Why do informercials claim to introduce their products several times in the middle of the spot? I've been listening to your idiots-I mean experts-yammer on about this thing for a while.

(Okay, maybe I need a life, but sometimes I start using the computer and forget to turn off the TV and then infomercials come on and I occasionally hear them in the background.)

Another possibility-"New York Style" is a fancy way of avoiding calling something "plain" cheesecake (related to my above theory regarding fruit, etc.).

So, Steven Segal. His movies are hilarious. I mean, they're so bad, it's amusing to watch. In my senior year of high school, I was part of a film for class. If we had, say, oh, any small fraction of the budget that one of those films had, we could have made vastly better movie than any of his.

Not that I blame him. He's a pretty nifty guy-the living realization of the Great White Ninja. Chris Farley, RIP.

Something interesting I noted while watching, I believe, "Out of Reach", the type of hero he portrays is similar to the kind of idealistic bulletproof good guys I myself imagined as a child. A heroism untainted by the reality of the world. This is intrinsically part, I believe, of why his movies suck. Plus the plots take weird jumps. Plus dialogue is uninspired. Plus the acting sucks.

The fight scenes are pretty cool though.

But really, Liam Neeson in "Taken" is much more believable, much more enjoyable to watch. He doesn't care a whit about the whole trafficking system-he just gets his daughter. He doesn't avoid killing people. He just gets his daughter. No one who could possibly give him some kind of traction towards that goal is innocent.

The more I learn about the ugliness of human nature, about the ways of the world, the cooler I find somebody like the Comedian or Ozymandias and the more ridiculous and disappointing I find Superman. It's a dark part of the soul that still longs for a figure like that, not dark because of the feelings that lurk there, but dark because experience snuffed out the light of hope that used to shine bright, the candle of man's benevolence and caring for his fellow man.

That's pretty uplifting, is it not? Yeah, people suck. That's basically what I'm trying to say.

All you can do about it is survive, and do your best to make sure those around you are affected positively, I guess. Life's a game we all lose, because no one can agree on how to win. Also, once you're dead, what does it matter? Opinions on the subject ring hollow when they come from a casket.