I don’t actually have a “nightstand” – what I do have is an IKEA POÄNG chair on my side of the bed that serves as a nightstand. I have dreams of it becoming my reading chair. Alas, most days it’s covered in clothes, unfolded towels, unmatched socks or unopened mail and of course a pile of half-read, browsed and going-to-be-read books.
A Google search of “What’s on your nightstand?” with quotation marks gets 379,000 page results (in 0.21 seconds) about books. If you then click on the YouTube link the results are frightening…GUNS! 11 videos about guns. The weirdest video may be this 37 second gem “What’s on your nightstand ? When your [sic] asleep….”. Watch it!
Weird. What’s weirder is the faux marble bedroom set in the tiny room.
Oddly enough I have a book you gave me a long while ago on my nightstand – rabbit redux. Go figure.
No guns?
Shhhh – that was code, silly! You didn’t really think a ruffian like me was actually reading Updike, did you?