Although Pharyngula didn’t spread his seed my direction, I’m a fan of meme’s, so let’s see where this takes us…here are the instructions.

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.

1. The best personal-magic-power novel in SF/Fantasy is…
   The Xanth Series, by Piers Anthony.
2. The best romantic movie in foreign films is…
   Amelie.
3. The best sexy song in rock is…
   Heartbreaker, by Blondie.

And now I throw the gauntlet to a few folks:

1. Barbarism Begins at Home
2. Tall Freak
3. X Marks the Spot
4. Tommy Marx Random Matters

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