A meme!

So, for those of you who do not know, generally, a meme is the thought-equivalent of a gene; it gets passed on from one person to another, sometimes mutating in the process. In blogging, a meme is typically a set of questions that you answer and pass on to others, with the expectation that they, too will answer.

In one of my favorite blogs, I read a meme that encourages mutation, and had to pass it on. Here goes:

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.

My ancestry:

My (great)^11-grandparent is Pharyngula.
My (great)^10-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.
My (great)^9-grandparent is Flying Trilobite.
My (great)^8-grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
My (great)^7-grandparent is Primate Diaries.
My (great)^6-grandparent is Thus Spake Zuska.
My (great)^5-grandparent is a k8, a cat, a mission.
My (great)^4-grandparent is Monkeygirl.
My (great)^3-grandparent is DancingFish.
My great-great-grandparent is "No One".
My great-grandparent is Field Notes.
My grandparent is The Clutter Museum.

My parent is Adventures in Ethics and Science.

The best children's novel in SF/Fantasy is: The Dragons of North Chittendon.
The best recent movie in comedy is: The Davinci Code.
The best karaoke song in rock ballads is: "Don't Stop Believin'"
The best cult novel in classic fiction is: Flatland.
The best high-fat food in Mexican cooking is: Taco salad.
The best economics-related words I ever received from a scholar are: "Nobody ever said, 'I have enough money now. I think I'll stop.'"
The best syndicated column in free weekly newspapers is: Savage Love.

So enjoy, have fun, and mess with it as much as you like! (Incidentally, the rules are unclear; by inspecting a couple of previous generations, I learned that you are allowed two changes overall, not per question. Or at least, that is how people have been playing it.)