Thus Spake Zuska passed this meme on to me. It was started by PZ Myers at Pharyngula as a means of demonstrating evolution in cyberspace.
First, the rules:
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.
So, without further ado:
My great-great-great-great-grandparent is Pharyngula.
My great-great-great-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.
My great-great-grandparent is Flying Trilobite.
My great-grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
My grandparent is Primate Diaries.
My parent is Thus Spake Zuska.
The best young adult novel in SF/Fantasy is: The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman
The best scary movie in scientific dystopias is: The Handmaid's Tale
The best sexy song in country music is: Essence by Lucinda Williams
The best cult novel in pre-Victorian fiction is: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The best high-carb food in Polish cooking are Polish crepes, or nalesniki (it's usually filled with farmer's cheese, cinnamon sugar, and raisins, yum!).
The best dissertation-related words I ever received from a scholar are: "these are potentially very significant contributions, Kate, particularly to field [x]"
I am propagating this meme on to:
Angry for a reason
Finally maturing
Fumbling towards geekdom
Geeky mom
Jokerine
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Monkeygirl
YoungFemaleScientist
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