Author: Ken

czech the pulse

After four months in the grave it would appear that the site’s best days are long day. The domain is still ours, however, so here’s a quick post to tide you over until, I guess, next year’s tax season is complete? and the GA has time to contribute. I recently had the pleasure of attending […]

Reesus Wept

Until recently, my views on Tommy Rees were complicated. Loved him as a player, believe it or not; something about a no-talent, unathletic kid wearing #11 resonated with me (as certain readers may recall, I also donned the double ones as the 9th man(1) for St. – – – – – – of – – […]

Czeching In

Note from the author: inspired by THE BEASTE’s latest contribution and determined to prove to the Grad Assistant that I’ve still got my fastball, I’ve decided to throw on the 4-5 and come out of retirement.  I took the Marshall loss hard. Deleted twitter, put the groupchat on mute, thought about going to church. “My […]

FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION

The Beaste – 9/23/2022 Note from the Editor: there is nothing better than waking up to four 2am emails from [email protected], who becomes COS’s most prolific 2022 contributor with this post. Please enjoy his latest below. I should have written this a week ago, when the Hot Take types might have been tempted to predict that […]

Hello

By: The Beaste Note from the editor: we could not be more excited to introduce our newest staff member, The Beaste. As TB alludes to in the following post, this is probably a “in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn’t fully understand” situation. However, much like the Grad Assistant Jr, “it’ll be […]

NDFB Reflection: What Now (Part II)?

Note from the author: this was penned late Monday evening after the Kelly news broke but due to some meetings and phone calls it could not hit the press until now. Since then there have obviously been some significant developments but going to publish the raw version for the sake of posterity. See postscript below […]

Cut to the Chase: The Give is to Harris | Third Endorsement

I had drafted the following post last weekend, with the intention of cleaning it up and going live early this week. Some meetings and phone calls pushed publication back a bit, and I’m glad they did. On Wednesday Chase Claypool, whose character I had been planning on Gavrilo Principing, put out this tweet championing mental […]