Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme

Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme

Nope. This isn't Part II to the vegetarian blog. I've been tapped by Stennie to do a meme. I think I understand the 40,000 rules attached. But you can judge for yourselves, because one of the rules is, naturally, to include the rules.

It's a challenging meme - one I actually had to think about, but I like it. Ready?

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, "The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…". Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:

— You can leave them exactly as is.

— You can delete any one question.

— You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change "The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is…" to "The best time travel novel in Westerns is…", or "The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is…", or "The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is…".

— You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form "The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…".

You must have at least one question in your set, or you've gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you're not viable.

Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.

Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.

My great-great-great-great-great grandparent is Flying Trilobite
My great-great-great-great grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
My great-great-great grandparent is Shakespeare's Sister.
My great-great grandparent is Excuse This Mess...
My grand grandparent is Saying Yes.
My grandparent is Really Small Fish
My parent is Stennie


My siblings are Bet, LilyG, Duke (Don't know his URL) and Mike the Blogless

1. The best comedy in scientific dystopias is: Brazil

2. The best sexy song in rock is: “Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith

(Looking back at the "family line" here, the definition of "sexy" is "dirty".)

3. The best Novel in absurdist fiction is: Tin Drum by Günter Grass

4. The best dead comedian in American comedy is John Belushi

5. The most embarrassing moment in live television was: I don't know - how about Ashlee Simpson lip syncing on SNL. I know there have got to be more embarrassing moments out there, but I just can't think of one.

I tap Josh, (Join, Josh, JOIN!) Lauren, Alexis, and Amy.