The Pharyngula Mutating Genre

Catnapping has tagged me for The Pharyngula mutating genre meme.

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 Ancestry:

My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Pharyngula.

My great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.

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 archy.

My great-great-grandparent is Why Now?

My great-grandparent is Hipparchia.

My grandfathers are Archaeopteryx and Kiefus.

My Mum is Catnapping.


My version of the questions:

• The best “bad” movie in comedy is: Bad Boy Bubby.

• The worst earworm in pop music is: Noonan, by Mr Floppy.

• The best alt-country album in country music is: Barricades & Brickwalls.


To keep the meme alive, I'm passing it along to:


Lavender at The Birds & The Beads because she loves a challenge and gets sucked into memes all the time. HAHA!

Red Mojo at Half a Bubble Off because I love Lucille and have never had a daughter, nether lone so multi-skilled ;)

KJ at OPTIONS Associates: For a Better World because I know she can do this! She's also a poet :)

Baino at Baino's Banter because she's the lady who can improve your knowledge of Australia beyond flora, fauna and birds!