Something That I Said

It's a meme! It's a scientific/social experiment! It's also a dessert topping!

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-great grandparent is Pharyngula.
My great-great-great-great-great grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.
My great-great-great-great grandparent is Flying Trilobite.
My great-great-great grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
My great-great grandparent is Shakespeare's Sister.
My great grandparent is Excuse This Mess...
My grandparent is Jennifer.
My parent is Snag! I'll be home by six, Dad. Can I have the car tonight? And the gun?

My changes are in bold.

1. The best musical in scientific dystopias is: Rocky Horror Picture Show

2. The best sexy song in rock is: True by Spandau Ballet.

3. The best cult novel in absurdist fiction is: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.

4. The best use of ground meat in American cooking is: the chili dog.

5. The best political song in punk is: Washington Bullets by the Clash.


And.. that's it. Kind of disappointing as a meme, in that it exposes less about the individuals than it does about the process (except for that chili dog thing) , but that's the nature of an experiment, I guess.

TAGGED BLOGERZ IS TAGED! Nick tha Liberrian, Crossing the Border for Mendacious D, and Zelmo. I'll even allow Zelmo to lay his eggs here, like some of the weirder creatures do.