What is on your night stand?

I doubt that

Condoms, a bible, handcuffs, a rosary, a bottle of astroglide, two gunter grass books , the selected poems of Thom Gunn, a mess of CDs, my note book, two pencils, a small lamp with a red shade, a bowl w. jellybeans , a silly little figurine, bills , letters, invatations .

David has Yves, a copy of Baal Shem Tov writigns he was reading over Yom Kippour, some post cards, a porcelian dish w. carp that has cuff links nad loose change, a set of dominos and his dayplanner.

On our table at the end of the bed ( a steamer trunk) we have three magaziens, a statue of mary, Christopher Hitchens book on Mother Thersa, a road map, a drivers ed manaul, a couple of davids work books and another lamp,activated by sound.

Nauusica, Celestial handbook, minidisc player, lollipop, earplugs, pills, papers...junk

What is Nauusica

antidepressants, deodeerant, nail polish, ventolin puffers and a health care renewal form

A hotel bell, a lego scout walker with Chewbacca, a couple of clocks, a key ring of a light house with working light, my glasses case, a little mirror, vicks vapour rub and some cosaters.

God we're addicted to trivia ..lets have a look:

cheap metal IKEA lamp, various half-digested books by Genet, Isherwood, Houllebecq, Brendan Behan and Walter Laqueur, 2 photos/fixture lists of Sparta Rotterdam, 1 pot Tiger Balsam, anti-mosquito plug-in + cream, Toothpicks, lip-balm, wet wipes, Birthday Card, 6+ gulders in looose change, 2 tourist maps of Belfast, a receipt from the Helga Lodge Guesthouse Belfast (not recommended), 2 glasses cases, 2 empty glasses, one tube cardiflore cream and too much dust.

book i'm pretending to read: arcades projects
books i've stopped pretending to read: the bostonians; decline and fall of the roman empire vol.1
book i really am reading: destroy all monsters by ken hollings
plus ventolin inhalers (yo geoff, d'you throw the little caps away or they all under the bed?); a biro; simpsons tableaux clock radio; bedside lamp and HILARIOUS WHITE RUBBER GLOW-IN-THE-DARK SLUG!

Coins. Lots of coins. Empty cassette case, a few demo CDs, mobile phone recharger, vaseline (?? no idea what that's doing there!), alarm clock (broken), a dead flower, a flyer for a niteclub, HMV bag, book - 'You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again' by Julia Phillips which I bought for 50p(!) at a car boot sale last week, lamp.
That's it.

technically that'd be a cd rack with an alarm clock on top of it. on my desk, however, i usually have whatever i forgot to put away: cds, a book, papers, a notebook, a pen, glasses.

Am I the only one without a night stand? I don't mean that in a "my children need shoes way", I just dont have one. Did you all see my new mail address? It screams class. It also screams 5 inferior Ronan Fitzgeralds at Dublin City University

I don't have a nightstand. I put a CD rack there so I wouldn't have to get up to turn off the clock.

A proper phone, my mobile phone, clock/radio, notepad and pen, and a really cool candle holder thing that when a lit candle is placed inside projects moons and stars onto the walls and ceiling.

me no have nightstand. me lucky am have very deep windowsills right next to bed where is piled cds, "wind up bird chronicle," new Wire, and my glasses (when i be asleep that is.) (alarm clock is across the room so i am forced to get up.)

and anthony, nausicaa is a manga/anime by hayao miyazaki. but, since it's hanle y, i'm not sure if he has the books, the dvd, the vid tape, the laser disc, or nausicaa herself sitting on his nightstand.

a phone; a lamp; the remote control for my stereo; a pocketbook calendar that I got free last year from Papyrus, a stationery store; a blank sheet of paper from a legal pad that I was using to keep my lines straight in a letter; a jcrew catalogue; a book on web page creation that I borrowed from my brother; Remembrance of Things Past; a dictionary to look up names of plants and flowers (It doesn't really help in picturing them.) and terms related to Catholic liturgy in ROTP; a linguistics book for a paper I have yet to write (I don't read it in bed. It's just that my desk is too small.); a bookmark

Receipts, my keys, wallet, watch, spare change that I will put in my pocket when I leave, pennies that I won't put in my pocket when I leave, nail clippers, ticket stub to Ghost World, bottle of asprin, spare Powerbook battery, ticket stub to Jabberwocky, bag of pushpins, bus pass, old bus pass that hasn't worked in more than a year, expired bus transfers, pint glass from the Uptown II Bar and Cafe with water in it, a brochure from the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, price tags that I peeled off the backs of books and then forgot about, a letter from my friend who's on a Peace Corps assignment in Guinea, a box of checks, bills, my alarm clock, the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry from some time ago as it was my mom's in college, Anna Karenina, Pound's Cantos, Swann's Way, a book about George Grosz, vol. 1 of the complete poems of William Carlos Williams, Selected Non-Fictions of Borges, an Oxford Russian dictionary, The Arcades Project, the dustjacket for the Arcades Project, The Essential Rilke, a disposable Advantix camera, The Icon and the Axe, John Berryman's Dream Songs, drawings and comics from Ethan, the complete writings in Russian of Daniil Kharms, collected poems of Emily Dickinson, MIT Press reissue of Mayakovsky/El Lissitsky's For the Voice with commentary and translation, poems of Anna Akhmatova, the collected poems of Frank O'Hara, A Lover's Discourse, Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation, secret banking information, and a stack of CD boxes (not sure if they have CDs in them): Wire, 154; Beethoven, Diabelli Variations; Beethoven, String Quartet Op. 132 etc; Billie Holiday, Lady in Satin; Spring Heel Jack, Treader; Herbie Hancock, Mwandishi; Magnetic Fields, Charm of the Highway Strip; Boards of Canada, In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country; John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman; Al Green's Greatest Hits; Jay-Z, The Blueprint; Sleater-Kinney, The Hot Rock; Duke Ellington, Black, Brown, & Beige; Fela Kuti, Shakara/London Scene; Redman, Whut? Thee Album; Goldfrapp, Physical; Bjork, Vespertine; Spring Heel Jack, Mases; Einsturzende Neubauten, Drawings of Patient O.T.; DJ Vadim, USSR Repertoire; Xen Cuts; DJ Shadow, Endtroducing; Antonio Carlos Jobin, Tide; Eric Dolphy, The Illinoi Concert.

How are you dealing w. the Cantos Josh ?
and i want to say this is one of the most fascnating threads.

The 3 or 4 books that I'm reading right now, (a vampire novel by my friend Jem, Mark S's book about Satan, Buddha of Suburbia and ET's Live Through This) a pile of mail I've not answered yet, some jewelery, a pair of maracas, about 4 or 5 bottles of different kinds of painkillers for my back, loose screws from my computer, my glasses, a glass of water, wrist braces and some photos of Paul.

I've only just recently got a nightstand here, I'd been piling up all my junk on the floor beside the bed, but we started tripping over it.

Judging by the positions of the books, Anthony, I am dealing with them by reading Anna Karenina, har har. But I've only read at the beginning a bit, so I'm not really sure. They didn't knock me out or anything, though the borrowed phrasing was nice. I unfortunately got the non-annotated version, which in this case for once I think I would have liked.

Oh, and also I had a comb on my table. My apologies for my formerly incomplete answer. I now also have on my table: my Powerbook, a pint glass with Chardonnay in it, and a plate with olives, wheat crackers, brie, and blue cheese (leftovers from departmental colloquium last night).

Wallet, handkerchief, spare change, phone, lamp. Simplicity itself. Books usually end up on the floor if I'm reading them.

I cleaned my room and what ended up on my desk (not in a convenient place by my bed but the only piece of furniture with stuff on top) were a couple of papers, a letter I mean to mail when I can find the address, a pen, two CDs I borrowed from my dad, The Fountainhead, and a Latin dictionary.

Some spare change, A lamp, an ostensibly-still-being- read "Ulysses", "'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and other Tennessee Williams plays", some batteries and a pen. Underneath my nightstand lie endless university papers, magazines and random read-able thingees. Josh has evidently discovered a way to compress physical matter, if this and the wallet thread are anything to go by.

I love you, Josh. YOu'd make a perfect person to "stay over" in mine and the Arsemonkeys house. In any room. Bring cheese and wine, please.

W/o being able to make ref: my night stand, I'd say I had a cd/tape player, bunch of cds on the shelves underneaths, loadsa polaroids, including some of YOU LOT YUCK (although RickyT looks like a cute little pixie!), a Pikachu keyring that Andy Dean gave me yonks ago which I wuv, some tweezers, uh, pens, elastic bands, random anime robot toy, and lawks, is that it? Not much space as cd player takes up rather a lot. Hmph. That makes me seem rather dull. BUT I READ BOOKS TOO! No... really... I charge my phone on that table too... ah fuck it. You're all too specific. Wallets, nightstands. If it was BAGS and IN YOUR ROOMS... now THAT would be a thread.

And then I would know which of yr houses to rob first. Hurry up, I'm fed up of using my tone of sarcasm and contempt to no financial gain (apart from a few free promos and guest list places). (cheers!)

ronan has the same last name as i. i use the top of a floor standing speaker for a night stand..keys, wallet, 4 remotes, smokes, lighter

I haven't got a nightstand as such, cos my bedroom lacks any sort of furniture apart from a bed and clothes rail, but scattered around the head of my bed are: QED by R.Feynmann, Europe by Norman Davies, Hats by The Blue Nile, the green Bowery Electric album, Down Colorful Hill (the last three on cd), a cd walkman mains adapter, a small alarm clock, a 1' Clanger that's fallen out of bed, a red anglepoise lamp, 45 by Bill Drummond, Les Liasons Dangereuses, a radio/tape player tuned to Radio 4 with Hydroplane in the tape bit.

I do not look like a cute little pixie!

The nightstand will have to stay home, though, Sarah. And that's really the source of my charm.

Not the nightstand per se but next to my pillow there is:

Yesterday's Guardian (read) and today's Observer (just Review and Life to go). Advance proof of a novel by Stephanie Theobald. Bottle of Volvic. Take-away cappucino. Duct tape from when I was de-pilling a jumper. Takashi Murakami poster which has fallen down. Various tube and taxi receipts. One pink crocheted Hello Kitty pillow. Pan/Macmillan Autumn 2001 catalogue. Receipt for paycheque from magazine for last month's work. Lighters. A few pieces of paper with addresses scrawled on.

Awwww. You do, you little cutie. Let me ruffle yr hair!

Josh... just give in. You know you want to.

I don't have a night stand (in the UK we call them bedside tables because we are cute), a wallet or a bag. Do I win?

N.B. I cannot deny my pockets.

TV that doesn't work, lamp, a pile of videos (lame porn, simpsons and a pussy galore concert), astroglide, asthma inhalers, alarm clock, tissues, book of charles bukowski short stories.

oh, almost forgot. A baggie with about two bowls worth of pot in it which I found hiding under the tissues this morning. yay. (geez, my nightstand sounds seedy.)

I really did think the title of this was "What is your one night stand?" at first.

As for my night stand, I have a bunch of laundry that I haven't gottne round to putting away yet.

well mine sounds conflicted and isnt astroglide like the best lube !

new thread: best lube? well yes astroglide works well. maximus is too gloopy and don't even talk to me about KY. Spit is better than KY

One letter from council tax people demanding payment, half a glass of stale water, biro, copy of 'The Gods And Literature' by Roberto Calasso.

I rest my glasses there when I'm sleeping, I also have a small CD/radi/cassette box. an IKEA cd holder, a tall, thin decanter that says "water" on its side and has a small glass which fits upside down on the top of it, and my alarm clock which is the blue one of these:

http://pages.tias.com/6949/InventoryPage/1309502/1.html

and, even though it oddly doesn't mention this in the description, it plays and dances to about 90 seconds of Kraftwerk's "The Robots." Best present I've ever received.