Angriest Rice Cooker Director’s Cut 54–On the life philisophical

This one originated when I was looking at a bunch of LiveJournal interest pages and noticed like five in a row that all had philosophy on them–and I was pretty sure that none of those people were exactly philosophy students. Of course, this is a little bit of a glass houses situation–my own LiveJoural info page has philosophy listed as well and, well, lets just say that basically everything I know about philosophy was at some point a part of an Angriest Rice Cooker. But my interests were actually determined by the subjects of all the comics (since the LiveJournal was originally created to be exclusively a notes page for the comic) that existed to that time, and philosophy was certainly one of the things discussed in the comic. I consider this a simultaneous joke about people who think they are deep and are interested in philosophy even though they’re not (this was totally me in junior high, by the way) and at the idea that a community run by philosophers would actually be great. I don’t think there’s any historical basis for that claim–and some fairly compelling counterevidence.

The name smittenedkitten13 isn’t actually a LiveJournal–in fact, it’s two characters too long to be one (ever wondered why my LJ name is angryricecooker rather than angriestricecooker? Now You Know!). This was a little in-joke to myself. In the first week or so that I was writing Angriest Rice Cooker comics, I considered making a topical one about this news story in which a dead 80-year-old (or so) woman was sued by the RIAA for file sharing in spite of the fact that she apparently didn’t even know how to use a computer. Smittenedkitten13 was her alleged username. I thought it was such a funny username that even though I never actually used that comic, it stayed in my mind. There was an added bonus that the name reminded me of a livejournal user I won’t name who was kind of bitchy to me one time and so I considered the comic a very very private dig at her (him? I’m actually not sure). That’s why you should never make me angry. I’ll make a joke nobody (including you) would even realize is directed at you in a comic you don’t read anyway. Fear my wrath!!!

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