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Mike Shirley-Donnelly (MSD)
Hi hello I am msd I make music and take photos and make art but also run a joint cat rescue / recording studio in southern new england with my partner Della. I'm still mourning Cohost closing, but at least I started blogging as a result??
Latest Posts
Today's entries are more 'yes and' of existing stuff but that's ok! When I started writing yesterday's blog post I had planned on doing about 6 but as I got through the first three and looked at the clock I realized breaking it up into...
Socialism In Space, Cosmic Horror Penguins and Godzilla Fighters, oh my!! Gamescom just happened (maybe is still happening??) and while I'm basically paying zero attention to it as a conference, it does mean that things are being...
Did get a moon photo from a few days ago though, here's that August 25th's moon, decidedly un-eclipsed You gotta know at this point how into photographing stuff in the sky I am (and hey, if not go peruse the moonchosting tag to get a...
Am I scrolling too fiercely or I've had relatively mixed luck with computer mice over the years. I bought a Cyborg Rat 7 when I was competitively playing Starcraft 2 during the beta, so like early-mid 2010 and I didn't need to replace it...
AI Forever Work Woes Continue Unabated Photo unrelated; met a pretty metal seagull at the first beach we tried in Connecticut upon moving here years ago. Face of a villain. Absolute icon. In the last two weeks or so I've seen an...
Decades later, trying to find a singular moment in an incredibly stupid series of star trek parody youtube videos Photo unrelated, here's Mastodon looking like an absolute unit Sometime around 14 years ago my bandmates and I were...
They're everywhere, we might as well photograph them As summer starts to trundle to a close (I know, I KNOW I'm mad too) I realized that I've accumulated several weeks worth of photos of random rabbits I've photographed while out on...
I mean, I'm still here doing it anyway but I think that's fascinating Photo unrelated - I know I've mentioned this on the blog previously but a while back, Della and I started photographing the wall at the pharmacy every time we pick up...
What if we retired the 'should it be fantasy or science fiction' argument and did something different? There's a bot on Bluesky called NESBot that posts links to resetera threads and one that caught my (and a lot of people's eyes)...
Collective Soul Unlocking A Core Memory Photo unrelated. Trying to get the studio all packed up and cleaned out but also going through the photo backlog. Here's Kindy. My partner Della's music shuffle library is truly a gift. She has...
It's nice when studios get a chance to spin out independent rather than be shut down entirely With larger companies doing evil shit on a regular basis and the workers getting inevitably fucked by that, it's nice when there are stories...
Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk Look at this little guy. They don't know what an AI model is and they're so much better off It’s nothing short of an indictment of our society at large that Aaron Swartz, one of the...
It's time someone wasn't a coward about this It's Blaugust, which means it's August, which also means that I'm hearing cicadas in full force outside; while usually that causes me to make a post about our song of the same name (I'll do...
Reflections on the impending closure of iconic independent San Francisco music venue, Bottom of the Hill from a dude who both played there AND went to shows there a lot Earlier this year I was sent an article by bandmates, friends,...
One subject, three lenses, let's fucking goooo Back in the Cohost days ["COHOST MENTIONED" ALARM SOUNDS] I used to regularly post these "one subject, three lenses" projects where I'd slap three different lenses on my camera and try to...