What's On Your Coffee Table?

[LocktownDog]

A little probing into your personalities ...

Here's mine ... sort of like a MacGyver list for complete knuckleheads :

Half a cup of coffee (it is a coffee table after all!)
Mandolin fretboard book
Grocery coupons
Pokeman guidebook (not mine!)
Cell phone
Pipe tamper
Dog brush
Super glue
Ball point pen


Richard

 

[The Shirt]

On:
Books I have been published in or that my friends have published.
Atomic Ranch Magazine
Few blue retro vases and bowls
Current knitting project
Picture of my oldest (pup)

Under:
2 giant bins underneath of design magazines and balls of yarn
Dog brush
hand weights

 

[LizzieMaine]

"The Silent Clowns" by Walter Kerr
"Glorious Technicolor" by Fred Barnes
"Performing Arts -- Broadcasting: A publication of the Recorded Sound Reference Center, Library of Congress"

Sears and Roebuck Catalogue, Fall-Winter 1942

Radio Digest magazine for February 1927
Radio Guide, 6/30/34
The Saturday Evening Post, 10/18/30
Liberty, 1/18/36
Better Homes and Gardens, November 1943
Life, 8/12/40

A half-eaten box of Lorna Doones

An empty teacup from this morning.

A small piece of skin from my shin, from where I ran into it yesterday.

 

[KL15]

Latest issue of Classic Style
The history of motor racing book
Latest issue of Cigar Aficinado
empty wine glass
phone.

Should change when I get the want to clean up.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Lizzie, that Walter Kerr book is one of my all-time faves. Absolutely the best single book on the subject, by far!

Coffeetable books - "Celluloid Skyline", "American Splendor" (the anthology that came out at the time of the film), "Mythology: The Superhero Paintings of Alex Ross", "The Historical Atlas of New York"

Three remote controls (receiver, TV, DVD/VCR combo)

Coasters, in a vain attempt to keep the table unstained (pretty silly, since we all put our feet up on it and it's got scuffs and dents aplenty)

Clipboard with lined pad and pen, for making lists and jotting down stuff

Stack of miscellaneous papers: several upstate NY college brochures (my son is applying), chronolgoical list of Woody Allen films indicating my own rankings and which ones I've shown to my kids, assorted printouts (Weird Al song lyrics) and catalogs (LL Bean, US Wings, etc.)

 

[Rooster]

My feet.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

I don't have a coffee table. But, if anyone has an extra...

 

[Fletch]

Glass of ice coffee.
Jar of loose change.
New York Times editorial & letter page, this date.
Cat brush.
Cat food dish.
Cat water dish.

And - here comes the cat.

 

[Hondo]

4 Books
The Beatles Anthology,
Vincent Van Gogh,
John Wayne Biography and films,
American Plains Indians,
Old newspapers.
Ash tray, (I do not smoke, won't let people smoke inside) just because!
Coffee table cover, cover Alaskan Bears.

I can also use coffee table as a work out bench lol

 

[Miss Brill]

One end has a vintage 1940s-1950s repousse lidded thing, I think it is a cheese dish, or something like that. In the middle I have a wooden tray that my mom used to serve me breakfast on when I was a child--I recently painted it white--and in it I have antique doorknobs, a big glass flower frog, a marble egg on a stand, a marble egg without a stand, a pewter salt shaker, a silver salt shaker, a stack of odd saucers, a stack of silver & glass coasters, and a polar bear momma with her babies, laying on a piece of ice. The other end of the table has an antique wash basin--it was cracked, so I got it for $1.00 at a thrift store. It is still filled with Chirstmas balls, because I hate to put them away. I usually keep a stack of stacking baskets in it.

 

[Dr Doran]

Dust.

A pair of Dickies.

A tiny heater.

Notebooks.

Herodotus, copy of.

Dirty coffee spoon.

Kleenex box.

 

[staggerwing]

A calico cat
Two unlit candles (see cat, above)
Last night's dirty dishes (we often eat crouched over the coffee table)
An empty grocery bag
Something sticky (yuck!)
Dust and cat hair
An assortment of catalogs left over from Christmas

 

[kokopelli]

Cafe table

Two place mats.. We eat there most of the time.
Two snowflake candle holders and a snowman candy dish
Sandy's bible and self-help book of the day
Rands custom hat catalog
Three empty bottles (Whit Kirch, Blue Moon and Yungleng)
Moto Razr

A little probing into your personalities ...

Here's mine ... sort of like a MacGyver list for complete knuckleheads :

Half a cup of coffee (it is a coffee table after all!)
Mandolin fretboard book
Grocery coupons
Pokeman guidebook (not mine!)
Cell phone
Pipe tamper
Dog brush
Super glue
Ball point pen


Richard

 

[52Styleline]

Candle in crystal holder
Book of Crossword puzzles and a pencil
coaster
TV Remote

 

[Mid-fogey]

In the Living Room...

...an antique writing box I shamelessly begged from my great aunt "Wheezie" when I was 10.

In the Family Room, an album from our last trip.

 

[Chas]

Coffee table book of vintage ties.
Copy of the Georgia Straight
empty wine glass.

 

[anon`]

Cigar ashtray
Wooden box, tiled (containing an IM Corona Old Boy, Savoy double guillotine cutter and pipe tool)
Match holder/striker of indeterminate age
Three guitar picks, one felt
Chess board and pieces, replica of an Anglo-Saxon (Norman?) piece
Squeezebox remote
Ultimate Bar Book
American Bar
Clans & Tartans
Shanken's Cigar Handbook
Boston's 25 Best
The Green Guide: New England
Classic Cars: The World's Greatest Marques
Photo of an unknown French castle
Street map of Boston
One, solitary coaster

 

[panamag8or]

Right now, it's pretty bare, thanks to a new dog that likes to eat things that aren't dog food.lol

I have a dish with polished stones and candles, and a small heater. Normally, I would have:

Copy of the current CS.
University of Florida football book
Coca-Cola book
Table lighter. Even though I don't smoke in the house, it still looks cool.
TV Guide

All of this has to wait until chewie dog gets over putting everything in her mouth.

 

[Miss Crisplock]

Oversized Gold and Silver plate and bowl, Large wooden bowl with See's peppermints in it

 

[Lola Getz]

--Photo by Sammy Davis Jr. book (fabulous photos and stories, I heartily recommend)

--leaf shaped bowl with 4 sad looking navel oranges, will be science experiment-worthy shortly

--glass with 1/4 remnants of Gin & Tonic

--an abandoned Hershey's Kiss wrapper