Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Gaaaahhhh I'm mutating.....

Bryan has tagged me for The Pharyngula mutating genre meme

(corrected because I can't follow instructions)

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-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 archy.
My parent is Why Now?

The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is: Dune by Frank Herbert.

The best “bad” movie in scientific dystopias is: Blade Runner.

The best sexy song in music: Cosi fan tutte by Mozart.


Mutating off to harass others, but only if they want to be mutated with:

JJ of Unrepentant Old Hippie

Ripley of Zen Cabin

Sorghum Crow of Sorghum Crow's General Store


Eli of Multi Medium

Mustang Bobby of Bark Bark Woof Woof


If anyone else wants to mutate but hasn't been asked, say so in comments and I'll put you on the list. I don't think you're supposed to mutate by yourself...

7 comments:

JJ said...

Oh no!! LOL I'll have to read and re-read your post until I get it. It's quite possible I might be too stupid for this meme.

ellroon said...

It looked confusing to me at first. But if you want to play, put Pharyngula as great-great-great-great-great grandparent, the following with one more 'great' than they have now. My blog should be your parent.

It should be interesting to see what PZ Myers will do with this....

JJ said...

OK, I got it now. The questions ie. genre, sub genre, medium, can mutate.

Yeah, I wonder what he's up to with this? We shall see...

ellroon said...

Oops... I did my last one wrong... will fix in the morning.

Rats.

ellroon said...

Fixed. It's good to read instructions every once in a while... like that big red sign that says no entry up the offramp...

Anonymous said...

Directions are for wimps just wing it - like our government.

ellroon said...

Right into a ditch...