Colin Dabkowski

@nickftorsell I mean I assume that's why you follow me

Sometimes I'll just make prolonged eye contact with someone at work and they'll show up in suggested follows on instagram

I still think about this book. It is important for me to tweet that I still think about this book.

I would say this is unsustainable, but at this point many people I know have sustained it almost for their whole (wildly productive) careers. Is this success? I can't guess, but I probably don't have the constitution. I don't know how they keep going, but I am glad they do.

It's tough to explain the mental and physical drain and anxiety that comes from spending your *entire career* believing that it will soon come to an end, only to go on to work another day. "Maybe tomorrow?" That's how most newspaper reporters feel most of the time.

Love this interview with Tina Brown from @LuluGNavarro: nytimes.com/2025/11/15/mag…

Once in a while I think about trains.

@nickftorsell This is obviously the most important thing to discuss right now. After this we will go back to our effete bespoke word laboratories and figure out how to squeeze another "Buffalo" into the "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo" sentence. EVERYTHING IS FINE.

Love logging on to twitter and seeing a bunch of writers and English majors argue whether 60k is enough salary for an independent lit mag to offer a managing editor.

It’s incumbent upon anyone who has ever been ostracized, anyone who believes in human dignity, to protect trans people and prevent the extremists in our country from traveling any further down this dark path. If you’ve read history you know where it leads. We cannot allow it.

What could possibly go wrong?

@nickftorsell I am relieved to know this

@colindabkowski The Decemberists were made in a lab to annoy me specifically so no you're not alone

Twitter music arguments are funny because a lot of it just boils down to everyone having vastly different taste. Saw someone say Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear were "music for normies" but then saw they loved Titus Andronicus, a band I find incredibly tedious and pretentious.

@nickftorsell They probably still have other numbers available it’s ok

Well guess I can't be number 51 for the Mariners like I was planning on. Summer ruined.

@nickftorsell Stop reading my thoughts. Also early July is more like it.

If I was a teacher I'd 100% blow through all the money I was supposed to save for the summer by like Mid-July

Nothing feels more like summer to me than an excellent Buffalo News intern-written story on the Allentown Art Festival. Just a classic, Buffalo circa 2005 feeling that I absolutely love. buffalonews.com/news/local/art…

WACS and @AtlasAlden working together on tonight’s award show and livestream. Tune in here: youtube.com/live/f0LGinQqW…

@nickftorsell I just think it's fun to rage against people doing cool and interesting things.

@colindabkowski I thought he looked familiar

Looking forward to seeing who has a meltdown tomorrow morning when they realize Delaware and Richmond are closed

@foundlingspress I agree. As I stood at this spot, my faith in God was simultaneously vanquished and restored. Five Tom Pettys, perfectly out of phase.

@colindabkowski Need to know what exact spot inspired this, because it might be the psychic axis of our region and worthy of further study

Buffalo is the only city in the world where you can stand in one spot and hear five mediocre Tom Petty cover bands playing simultaneously.

I am also here.