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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??
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This one should be more fun than yesterday's Blaugust post You know those moments where you're going about your day, brushing a cat and they're like, leaning into it and purring and then suddenly you're hit with an intrusive thought about the existence of Might No. 9? And how you once foolishly gave money to it?...
On Monday, I came back to my day job from a weeklong vacation wherein we did birthdaversary stuff and packing / moving related activities. I rarely if ever talk about work here but one of the first things out the gate when I logged in was that I apparently missed a companywide meeting on how Claude use is now...
A nice surprise when the meteor shower didn't pan out Lmao so remember yesterday? How excited I was about finally a night I could watch the perseids near the peak of the shower with minimal moon light pollution and clear skies? It fucking rained. Like. A lot. Another year of Perseid persecution upon me and my family...
Meteors Shower, one might say! Long exposure of the stars from the 2017 shower; you can see one (1) streak on the right side Since I was a small child, a thing I looked forward to every year is a near-end of summer tradition where we'd go out into the backyard on a blanket or a sleeping bag and watching the sky...
A job that requires zero cats, and yet Every place my partner Della and I have lived for roughly the last decade has included a dedicated "instant film" wall that showcases her stuff. At our first place it was polaroid because that's what we were still shooting at the time This was taken almost exactly 11 years ago,...
(Photo of lesbian cats unrelated) Lilith and Gargoyle having a midday loaf-off The University of Chicago's Law School published a memo last month about their new policy for first year law students - the memo is titled: Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era and I recommend reading it. The main takeaway is that...
Visiting a beloved children's franchise late in life has been a trip Sometime around last summer I started reading the Redwall books with my kids; I've known a lot of people who'd read them growing up or for whom those books meant a lot but they'd missed me entirely until the year of our Abbot 2025 and so I'm coming...
Still can't believe this exists and I wish there was more of it You might recall that earlier this year I wrote about Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - Re:Build, a stage play adaptation of the first season of 2007's Mobile Suit Gundam 00. I had a blast with it, and apparently so did audiences because they ended up doing a...
Hey two quick reminders if you're new here or have mainly been reading this blog for the blog (no shade) Hello hi, I'm MSD: in addition to the photographer, artist and blogger I am here, I am also the frontperson of this chiptune/orchestral indie music band collective thing called Curious Quail (hence the blog's...
(which in hindsight will be replacing "elephant in the room" as a phrase moving forward) If you've been reading my blog for a while or following me anywhere I'm still active on social media, a thing that's come up multiple times and never remarked upon is that in some cat photos, there's a thing that's just out of...
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