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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
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...
I've gotten both a baby and now a teen cardinal on my lifer list, I'm so stoked lmao Ok so like, a month ago I photographed a baby cardinal who was learning how to fly and was this awkward little frumpy mess - but today?? TODAY I GOT TO...
In my defense, there's so many of them It's just absolute cardinal hours here I guess. They're everywhere. All the time. I don't mind!! but it means you have to deal with looking at them if you visit my blog and I hope we can all be ok...
This one was slightly less angry at me But I think that comes with the territory of not being near their offspring who is learning how to fly. Anyway, here's some bird. I enjoy bird, thought you might also. .slider-before, .slider-after...
TALKIN SHIT Most of these I do for me I-guess-this-is-just-gonna-be-a-format-I-use-from-now-on photography
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Wild few days but I'm nothing if not determined to see this project through till at least Wind and Waves come out. Anyway, in today's post we don't have a lot of icons....