Americana I miss

National Public Radio

• Car talk
• A prairie home companion
• Wait wait don't tell me
• Whaddya know
• The story
• All things considered
• (But not those obnoxious membership drives of Michigan Radio.. oh well, you get what you pay for, I suppose)

Television

• Charlie Rose
• Countdown with Keith Olbermann
• The Colbert Report
• The daily show (Jon Stewart)
• Newshour with Jim Lehrer
• Craig Ferguson (Letterman too but not so much)
• Fareed Zakaria GPS
• Saturday Night Live

Food and restaurants

• Bagel with cream cheese (served in every coffee shop)
• Red Lobster restaurants, especially the bisquits and the grilled salmon
• Taco Bell (but I think the Burger King in Bergen Bystasjon is better than the one(s?) in Ann Arbor)
• And speaking of Ann Arbor: Zingerman's!

Shopping

• Buying electronics at amazon
• Friendly liveable bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders