Monthly Archives: November 2025

Ward 86: Growing Up in the Time of AIDS

My father’s memoir of the terrible epidemic of the 1980s My parents separated in 1973, when I was six years old. I sometimes think the amazing thing is that they got together in the first place. They are very different … Continue reading

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In Space, No One Can Hear You Spin

Crisis PR for science fiction’s most evil company Note: Minor spoilers for the recent “Alien: Earth” series. I was eleven in 1979 when my dad took me to see Ridley Scott’s Alien at the Geneva Drive-In, in South San Francisco. I watched … Continue reading

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