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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 Fri 03/20/2026 - Taillow Friday's entry came via RNG. I am legitimately surprised I've never seen this one before but also it's like, regular-ass bird. Do all...
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 sweating it. Let's dig in. Mon 03/16/2026 - Houndoom I did...
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 math themed pokemon for 3/14 but in my defense, the world is...
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 before and it's both adorable and gross at the same time, and as...
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 - but I did draw pokemon in bed every day because (as stated...
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 Wednesday night. It doesn't seem to be getting worse but it's...
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 but here's my catch-up. May have to take some time off work,...
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 or not throughout the course of the day; variations of...
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 around to taking photos or editing them until now so please...
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 because my partner Della told me how good a daymoon we were...
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 02/23/2026 - Salazzle On Monday I learned about Salazzle and I gotta...
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 fucking times over the years that I have like a historical...
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 rad things people make that show what joy tech can bring Lyra...
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 highly visual creature so I've littered photos of a cat namted...
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 deeply stupid1, incredibly gendered femme-presenting mobile...