Radman_Art Blog: Smörgåsbord

I made this dish that I consider to be innovative. I toped Fritos with a tuna salad I made. Then I put cheese on it and melted it on in the toaster oven. I was really good. This is a single serving.

A photo of my wife's birthday presents and our anniversary and my dogs birthday. We rounded his birthday off to that day since the SPCA was not able to provide his birthday.

As always when a worker comes to my home I always try to give them art. Click here to view this art I did on the back of my business cards.

The following story is continued from last years home page. Click here for link. I want to ad that I have since made two more World War II soldiers and I am getting better at it. The first one took about two hours to complete. The next one took about 1 hour and the one I made this morning took about one half hour. I am bummed out about the missing arm in one of them. I tried to contact the seller today but they are from China. If I can get this resolved I will provide a link to where I got them. It does not look like it is going to happen. Here is a photo of my newest soldiers. Click here top of the page to see it. This paragraph was updated December 30th 2025.

I got a toy solder kit at a really good price for Christmas. It was not easy to do but I put one together yesterday. I think I may be missing a arm for one of them. I will not know until I am done putting them all together. The pieces are very tiny. I will post a photo of it here next to a coffee cup and a AA battery so you can see how small it is. Click here to view. Top of page. I am going to ad this page to my menu since I use it so much.

This is my new favorite food idea. A cheeseburger with a hotdog bun. Just cut the bun in half and you get two slider cheeseburgers. It is my idea I did not look it up. This one has salt and pepper. 😋 "Come on, try it, you can buy it, you can leave it next week, yeah Somebody gimme a cheeseburger, oh Come on, babe Oh yeah, hey, hey" Steve Miller Band - Living in the USA. This paragraph was updated October 21st 2025.

I posted this on my 2024 page.:

I have YouTube music on my phone and I saw a new song by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Philly_and_Perquisite and it was pretty good. Stereo something. I have liked them before anyone liked them. Their music (for some reason) brings me back to those elegant times in Connecticut. Back then when ever I found myself in the deep city of Hartford or New Haven Connecticut; sometimes I have to say I do not not know how I got there. Some friend of mine took me there without me knowing where we were going. My friends used to like colleges. I would find myself surrounded by that polished wood paneling in the deep city. You could not see the wall just dark polished wood everywhere. That is what this music reminds me of. Nevertheless I miss and love deep city elegants. This is what I thought of just before I wanted to post the following because I was listening to them at that time.

The best way I know how to describe their sound is by saying they are Jazz and hip-hop and orchestra.

This is a great game despite the lack of graphics.

I made this graphic so good I just had to post it. It made my wife laugh too. We were watching the movie Meet the Parents yesterday and Greg was saying grace and mentions the word Smörgåsbord. I looked it up just before dinner and was so impressed with it I set it as background. Then this morning I made this graphic to further impress my wife. Then I got the idea to review Meet The Parents for my IMDB profile. I will copy it here even though IMDB did not approve it yet.:

Meet The Parents on IMDB only got 7 stars; so in protest of that I wrote the 1st 2 sentences below. My IMDB profile page is here.: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur45931580/

Do not get me on another anti - anti semitic rant. I will restrain myself for now. This is one of my favorite husband and wife movies. The thing that stands out most about this movie and of which I have commented on my art blog is: the relationship between Greg and Pam's Dad is exactly how my dad and me would get along. For example one time my dad made me rake the leafs in our huge lawn. I did what my dad said as always when it came to yard work. I grabbed the rake and started to rake and the thing fell apart in my hands because the wood was so old and weak. Also my tennis racket broke when I was on the HIgh School Tennis team that I got a letter and numbers reward for. I asked my dad to let me borrow his old tennis rackets and I served with one and it broke, then while using the next one, it broke too, because they were both rotting old wood. My Dad took both incidents as a malicious act against him. Eventually my dad and I had a close brother like relationship, latter in life, those High School years were exactly like the movie here. No matter how hard I tried not to; I did everything I could to make my dad angry with me, mostly unintentionally. I do not condone Greg painting the cats tail at all, I would never do that to a animal. You have to feel bad for Greg no matter what he does in this movie when all he wants to do is marry the love of his life. I love the perplexed look on Pam's mom's face after Robert De Niro says they are out of Tom Collins mix. Too top it all off Robert De Niro even looks like my dad in this movie and when ever he had a party he would always serve Tom Collins. The fact that Pam takes Greg's side, no matter how much Robert De Niro tries to separate them for his own selfish desires; shows how they were meant to be husband and wife. Anyone that has had a hard time with their parents will love comparing this movie to that as a therapeutic thing. We should all look back on things and laugh and this movie encourages that.

Here is a graphic I made from images I found on Google; guarantied to make you hungry.:

Etymology

A New Nordic Cuisine smörgåsbord

In Northern Europe, the term varies between "cold table" and "buffet": In Norway it is called koldtbord or kaldtbord, in Denmark det kolde bord (literally "the cold table"), in the Faroe Islands, Kalt Borð (cold table); in Germany kaltes Buffet and in the Netherlands koud buffet (literally "cold buffet"); in Iceland it is called hlaðborð ("loaded/covered table"), in Estonia it is called Rootsi laud ("Swedish table") or puhvetlaud ("buffet table"), in Latvia aukstais galds ("the cold table"), in Finland voileipäpöytä ("butter-bread/sandwich table") or ruotsalainen seisova pöytä ("Swedish standing table/buffet"). In Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, it is a called "Shvedskyj stol" ("Swedish table") (Cyrillic: Шведский стол) or "zakusochnyj stol" ("snack table") (Cyrillic: закусочный стол) or "kholodnyj stol"("cold table") (Cyrillic: холодный стол). In Central and Eastern Europe each language has a term meaning "Swedish table". In Japan it is referred to as バイキング / ヴァイキング (baikingu / vaikingu, i.e. "Viking"). : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5sbord

Put these in the corner of your desktop on black background. It will appear to move around as you do your work on your computer. I like to think of it as play though.