Angriest Rice Cooker Director’s Cut 60–On the Tao of hackery
I came up with this basic idea while staring at a huge number of “the Tao of XYZ” books at a Barnes and Noble. I grabbed all of the book titles in the first panel off of an Amazon search for “The Tao of” (all of them are real, by the way). The quote in the second panel is from chapter 56 of the Tao Te Ching as translated by Stephen Mitchell. I may have had to look it up, but I definitely knew the gist–that book is very important to me. This was a rare comic where I had the basic idea mapped out and then did research to fill in the pieces, rather than using research on random topics as a way to stimulate the comedy brain.
It’s also worth pointing out that I have a very severe love/hate relationship with the book The Tao of Pooh. On the one hand, Benjamin Hoff does a pretty good job of explaining the concepts of the Taoist masters. On the other hand, he pushes a lot of his own ideologies that in my mind run counter to the spirit of the Tao Te Ching as if they were a self-evident extension of the words of that book. Parts of his work I read as downright hateful, which is about the last word I’d use to describe the Tao Te Ching
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