The Quivering Pen

As anyone who has pranked around with interstate mileage signs will tell you, Butte, Montana is frequently the butt of jokes. Sometimes ...

I woke up this morning feeling very milestone-y.  According to my Blogger statistics, this is the 1,000th post here at The Quivering Pen si...

Not all Yuletides are gingerbread and tinsel-haired angels.  Sometimes Santas go on shooting sprees. I love a wholesome, heart-tickling C...

If ever there were songs tailor-made for the Tuesday Tune feature here at the blog, Carey Wallace's EP Songs About Books is it.  The ...

I'm the first to admit Joshua James got lost in the blizzard of Joshes* which hit my iPod a couple of years ago.  Josh Rouse, Joshua R...

I was driving I-15 between Dillon and Butte, on my way home from a meeting, when I first heard Dawes sing "A Little Bit of Everything....

For me, the summer of 2011 will always be known as the Summer of Rewrite.  From May to late July, if you came to the basement of my house b...

Despite the critical hoopla showered on The Decemberists' new album The King Is Dead , the folk-pop failed to move me.  The songs weren...

Bon Iver's new self-titled album is a hypnotic soundtrack for the moments of our lives when pain rises, love blooms, wars rage, peace...

I've been a fan of Canadian popster Jeremy Fisher ever since the day I heard "Scar That Never Heals" zydeco-bopping from my c...

And now, one of the best rock bands you've never heard of: Fools & Horses .  They're the next big thing coming to rock and roll....

Nobody likes to work (and if you do, you're either a nymphomanic prostitute or the senior taste-tester at the lollipop factory).  But wh...

My daughter and I were driving in the dark through Montana.  The grey road, the cone of headlight beams, the broken lines of the passing lan...

Tomorrow marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the War Between the States when Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter and began...

"Walking Far From Home" by folk troubadour Iron and Wine* (from the album Kiss Each Other Clean ) is so lyrically potent, so sonic...

This one goes out to every guy who has ever been dumped by a girl and put in a trash can, literally- and figuratively-speaking. I certainl...

From week to week, I know I tend to slide into hyperbolic enthusiasm when it comes to the Tuesday Tunes I post.  Judging by the spittle-fle...