This show is the best and most realistic portrayal of blue collar, working class dissatisfaction and disappointment. It's complex and layered. The crapsackishness is refreshing to me, like early Simpsons or King of the Hill. The cartoonish elements are definitely the enemy but the supporting cast isn't all bad: Mo…

I had a stack of unwatched current-season Simpsons episodes on Hulu and I chose this one at random because it had the most appealing-sounding premise and because Kamp Krusty was a great great episode of television.

I've bought small items from West Elm (lamps mostly) and loved them. They're great style-pieces and while the pricetag means I only really buy on sale, they've all been good quality. But my sofa was $219, made by a company called DHP and it's one of the best value things I've bought. It was flatpack and took about two…

European beds don't ever use box springs as far as I've experienced – or if they do, they're in lieu of a bedframe, not in addition to it.

One thing that confused me about this episode: how can a family from ORLANDO travel to Taipei and complain about the humidity and the mosquitoes? It seemed like an odd thing to miss about America. I thought it did reasonably okay walking the line between having to be an American English language show and also having…