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January 20, 2024, at home

I like many cheeses, including Provolone, Gorgonzola, Brie, and Emmental (Swiss), but (I think) my favorite cheese is Leyden from The Netherlands, which is similar to Gouda cheese but contains whole cumin seeds and whole caraway seeds.

January 20, 2024, at home

Today is National Disk Jockey Day. Dan Ingram was my favorite disc jockey on "WABC Musicradio 77" (770 AM) which broadcast from New York City when I was growing up on Long Island, New York, in the 1960s and 1970s.

The station began broadcasting Top 40 hits on December 7, 1960, less than three months before I was born, and switched to a news-and-talk format on May 10, 1982. Around that time, Ingram, and many of the other WABC DJs, went to WCBS (101.1 FM), which was an oldies music station in New York City, to which I also listened. Ingram retired in 2013 and passed in 2018 at the age of 83.

Ingram and the other DJs on WABC, including Harry Harrison, Bruce Morrow ("Cousin Brucie"), Ron Lundy (another favorite of mine), and Johnny Donovan, provided the soundtrack to my early life, especially during those many hot summers on the beach at Robert Moses State Park, either Field 4 or Field 5.

Here is a link to part of Ingram's broadcast on April 19, 1973, when I was 12 years old. (The songs in this clip have been removed.)

https://youtu.be/OJKSm99cE58

Around that time, as many kids did, I would record my favorite songs off of the radio tuned to WABC in my room with my portable cassette tape recorder by holding the microphone close but not too close to the radio speaker.

January 20, 2024, at home

I like buttercrunch, but I prefer it covered with chocolate.