swivet

• “One for the writers: Damage that an author can do to his or her career by choosing the vanity press route. [via swivet]”

  SF Tidbits for 9/8/08

• “Michael Chabon is fighting the good fight for science fiction. [via swivet]”

  August 2008

• “The Disco ‘Tute is in a swivet over the California Science Center’s cancellation of a showing of Darwin’s Dilemma, the latest excretion of Illustrata Media, producer of the late unlamented Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed at the Disco ‘Tute.”

  IDiots can't read. - The Panda's Thumb

• “The specter of an Obama presidency has anti-gay forces in a swivet.”

  Wayne Besen: Palin's All Dressed Up and Plotting

• “Gasped Agnes, shocked by the request into an unwanted swivet.”

  vignette: zombies (for andrew)

• “I know, we're getting into a linguistic swivet (ph) here.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2006

• “True, he suffered a swivet after the crash of 1987; and a recent PBS series called Made in America bombed.”

  Simon & Schuster: Economic Principals

• “There was very little hoopla in the press last week, and scholarly economics is in something of swivet over the award.”

  Simon & Schuster: Economic Principals

• “Did you do that deliberately just to get us cranky old farts all in a swivet?”

  BLESS YOU, DAVID!!!.....

• “If you were wondering what might send the world's third-largest media conglomerate into a swivet, look out the window: There's a 7 percent vacancy rate in midtown Manhattan, and Bertelsmann A.G., the $16.4 billion German-based behemoth, is feeling the strain.”

  Random House Homeless! Office Space Vanishes!

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