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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
Dude have I mentioned how much I love doing dishes now As usual, photo completely unrelated; there was a bitchin' sunset the other night and I massively underexposed while trying to get it shining on the cat mansion at the window Welcome...
Grab the slider and go on an adventure with me It's weird that I only have one other photo of this stick on the blog. I must have tagged some of them wrong?? This thing is trapped in a power line that I see when I go on walks and I love...
Camera focus adventures with a super rad insect There's this metal corrugated awning that covers a patio in my backyard right outside the living room window; birds love it because it catches a bunch of the oak tree's acorns and like,...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weird week. The skies have been smoke-filled and air-quality alerted to shit, ICE is killing civilians (again), my country is / is not / is again / wait no / yes...
Please enjoy some camera focus adventures (and bonus flowers) This morning, one of the cats was sunbathing in the window and what struck me was the "golden hour" light that was hitting them; usually that's rad as hell and super...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Hope y'all had a great weekend! Mine felt exceedingly short. You see, a bigoted, elderly politician who has done untold damage to the rights of women, queer people,...
What the fuck even is "Magical Insurance Bureaucrats" anyway? Compilation of a bunch of the art - this is my "tone piece" for the project more or less For a while now, I've been working on this thing called The Ongoing Adventures of...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop There was a period of time earlier in this project where I was worried my blog posts would be too much pokemon all the time, and thankfully that's no longer the case as...
Hell yea rain gifs I mentioned in my fireworks post the other day that we had both a heat wave AND ridiculous thunderstorms on the 4th of July BUT a few hours before the big thunderstorm that happened during everyone going fucking...
Why willn't thine bubble pop sooner As usual, photo unrelated. I like photos in blog posts even if they aren't relevant because I'm a photographer and I have so much goddamn backlog. Here's a cicada, aka the perfect lifeform. Emerge from...
TALKIN SHIT I am not a birder (I know that sounds made up given the blog name and the constant bird photos but in my defense, the former is from my band's name and the latter is because I have a camera and I'm surrounded by goddamn birds...
Up front: if you don't wanna hear me ramble about the state of the U.S. and just want cool firework photos, I get it; scroll down! This is not meant as a dig at anyone who wants to be happy about the 4th of July OR a milestone like 250...
TALKIN SHIT Cardinals all the way down, man. Quick sidenote: celebrating my country feels pretty gross in normal times and these are far from normal times, so if you too are in the states: may your weekend be hopefully filled with like,...
Let's do some Julyreply shall we?? Photo unrelated, here's a sick-ass sunset from the other day As Junited has come to an end, its originator reached out about this little thing called JulyReply that sort of acts like a "yes, and" for...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop As a starter, wanna toss out that the Supreme Court ending pride month 2026 with "eh maybe trans people shouldn't have any rights" is pretty par for the course with the...