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September 25, 2023, The Isles Nursing & Rehab Center, Boynton Beach, Florida: Today is National Comic Book Day.

My favorite comic book character is Jughead Jones (full name: Forsythe Pendleton Jones III) from the Archie comics.

I became a big fan of Jughead comic books (digests) in the early 1990s, when I was in my early 30s. (See photo below.) During that time (1992-1996), I was a writer, editor, and researcher for a weekly, international magazine on the financial and technical aspects of the chemical industry based in New York City, and I needed to read something less complex for a change. I chose the Jughead comic books. I still have them.

I like Jughead because I was much like him during that time (mostly carefree; romantically unsuccessful with women; loves eating, especially hamburgers), and I am still mostly similar.

Also, I enjoyed watching "The Archie Show" cartoon TV series when I was a kid. It ran for one season in 1968, when I was seven years old.

September 25, 2023, The Isles Nursing & Rehab Center, Boynton Beach, Florida: I think my favorite one-hit wonder is probably "Ariel" by Dean Friedman. The song was released in 1977, when I was 16 years old.