Cool Meme with Sucky Questions

Okay. I've been tagged for a meme that is really cool in its concept, but the questions for it SUCK. Hard.

So I've gone ahead and answered it, but I'm not inflicting it on anybody else. You're welcome to do it, and track back to one of the preceding "generations" but, gah. What horrible questions! (Well, the first is okay. The rest... *barf*) They combine the "what's your favorite..." meme with the "how well do you know pop culture" meme - and I SUCK at both! BLEAH!!!!

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 great-great-great grandparent is Pharyngula.
My great-great grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.
My great grandparent is Flying Trilobite.
My grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
My parent is Shakespeare's Sister. (Thanks a ton, Melissa!)

1. The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.

2. The best scary movie in SF/Fantasy is: Aliens. Or Pan's Labyrinth. Depends on how you define "scary."

3. The best sexy song in rock is: I have no freakin' idea.

4. The best stand-up comedian in American comedy is: How the hell would I know?

I HATE THIS MEME!

(So why am I doing it? I'm avoiding grading.)

Comments

[Melissa McEwan]

Thanks a ton, Melissa!

LOL! Sorry - I was just thinking about how you'd dig the concept. :)

[Rana]

I do like the concept (grin) - it's just so frustrating that the questions aren't my thing. Maybe next time he'll have one with squid?