Haha, in his reviews he totally puts down American writers in general. He also has a story about furniture, where he talks about how great people are at choosing furniture in England, France, Germany, India, China, and pretty much all of Europe/Asia, then he talks about how much people suck at choose it in North America. I thought that was funny
I have to admit, I skipped two of the stories so far -- one was a review of a poem I never heard of (I read most of his reviews, because normally he paraphrases the book first, but this time he didn't) and the other was a non-fiction account of the rise of the fur trade, and all the different people/places involved. Since I never heard of the people/places, and it was a long story, I was totally lost by the 5th page and gave up.
I'm getting back into weird stories, now, which I missed. I'm looking forward to the one I'm going to read today!