quailblog

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??

Music

Personal

blog.curiousquail.com

RSS

Latest Posts

Daily Dex - Houndoom, Hisuian Sneasel, Unown and Chespin

quailblog · 1mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop I'll be first to admit I'm off my game this week but there are extenuating circumstances so I'm not really...

Daily Dex - Sandygast and Duskull

quailblog · 1mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sat 03/14/2026 - Sandygast Random number for this one! In retrospect I should have tried to pick a pie or...

Daily Dex - Cubchoo and Gulpin

quailblog · 1mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 03/12/2026 - Cubchoo Hit RNG for Thursday and got Cubchoo; (take a drink) I'd never seen this one...

Daily Dex - Aron, Morelull, Munna, and Swinub

quailblog · 1mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop OK so I went from "dude I feel like shit" to "knocked on my ass for 5 days" sick and I'm still recovering -...

Daily Dex - Weezing and Staryu [And Snowapple]

quailblog · 1mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Fri 03/06/2026 - Weezing Man!! Being sick sure is shit!! It came out of fucking nowhere and tanked me on...

Daily Dex - Kingler, Inteleon and Magikarp

quailblog · 1mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop I'm sick! First cold / sinus thing of the year and it's KICKING MY ASS so I might be slow the next few days...

"Light rain forecasted"

quailblog · 1mo

When the forecast gets it wrong (complimentary) The weather alerts for yesterday morning were really (and I cannot stress this enough) really on the fence about if it would rain...

Daily Dex - Rolycoly, Fat Pikachu, Charmander, Tangrowth and Sunkern

quailblog · 1mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop I've had a rough couple of days, man! Even though I was committed to drawing these every day, I didn't get...

February's Final Moons

quailblog · 1mo

Holding on to what you got while everything goes to hell Moon photos first, then words: 2/27/2026 04:41pm 02/27/2026 9:55pm 02/28/2026 04:25am Friday afternoon I got excited...

Daily Dex - Salazzle, Wigglytuff and Polteageist

quailblog · 1mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop It's been a few days since I posted the fruits of this manic project's labor, so please enjoy! Mon...

Old Bookmark Treasures: The Big Muff Page

quailblog · 1mo

Revisiting a nearly twenty-year old website chronicling the iconic Big Muff fuzz pedal Today while accidentally cleaning out my bookmarks (Listen, I've changed browsers so many...

Rad Tech Things - x86 CSS

quailblog · 1mo

Rad Tech Things I'm often down on the modern state of technology (mostly because it's almost all capital-driven and pivoting to "AI" nonsense) but I want to start highlighting...

The Obvious End Result of AI

quailblog · 2mo

Wanna hear me read this post instead? Myths of labor reduction compared against supposed productivity increases was ALWAYS going to equal 'forever work' Reminder that I'm a...

Daily Dex - Kirlia

quailblog · 2mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sun 02/22/2026 - Kirlia Today's request was "What's a pokemon that has 'Farsia' vibes" - the Farsia being a...

Daily Dex - Appleton, Centiskorch and Gorebyss

quailblog · 2mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Had a wild last few days but I'll be damned if I don't make at least 10 minutes a day to draw a pokemon....

quailblog

Latest Posts

February 2026

March 2026

April 2026

Stats