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...that stores 20 gigabytes--more than most hard drives. Granted, a Peerless disc drive costs $400, but that's for enough space to fit your entire PC on a single disc. And you can probably fit all those back issues of National Geographic you've been keeping in the attic...
...attic above me, an animal has died. A carrion smell seeps through the ceiling. A squirrel, maybe. A raccoon? For a week, I heard something scuttling up there - as if to answer the clicking of my computer keyboard. I was amused to think the animals were weighing in with a contrary point of view. I assumed that a creature that had found its way into the attic would find its way out. Then the scuttling stopped, and in a day or two, the dead smell began. I must go up through the trap door in the ceiling in the hall...
...thought the merlin had killed their mother. But then I saw her lounging around the maple, as if in a housecoat, and decided she's just a lousy mother. Or perhaps it was Mother who perished in the attic. Maybe the cats ate the baby squirrels - delicacies, no doubt, like sushi. The cats, fat as pashas, having yet to shed the opulent fur they acquired in the long cold winter, sit motionless, an hour at a time, under the maple, hoping to pounce on a careless songbird. But the cats will settle for red squirrels, which themselves lie in wait...
...Married Lust's Lister: "If you really want to enjoy the rush of novelty, you're going to have to take your show on the road, the first stop being any room in the rest of the house, from the kitchen to the basement to the bathroom to the attic...With one simple change of place, even if it's the bathroom you're remodeling in your own home, all the qualities you miss from your early days together--the spontaneity, the fun, the sense of derring-do--are brought back." For the particularly adventurous (now that it's warmer...
...still in his glistening prime?and if he was not still so damned gorgeous. Any visitor to Hong Kong who mentions his name to a local will hear the same refrain: "Guess how old he is" (as if he kept a rotting portrait of himself in the attic). Cheung is 44, and if he has changed at all during his half-life in the public eye, it is to become more wily in the lavishing and husbanding of his allure. He simultaneously seduces and withdraws, flirts and forbids. He is the most cunning, provocative tease in Asian showbiz...