That's me, shamelessly hiding behind the sign!
Hey all, so things have been happening really fast ever since I revealed my identity to the Ithaca OTR community (population: like 20!). Long-story-short, an Ithacan blogger has decided to feature little 'ole me on his blog (which runs on the Ithaca Website). Things have really gotten out-of-hand s

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"I'm Scott Lyons, does Native American literature exist?"
What a weekend: we won CORTACA 2007, I was recognized in public, and Broken Social Scene/Yo La Tengo played Cornell -- I'm just tuckered out.

Thank goodness for Intercom Roundup. Where else can one get their share of tepid, relaxing lectures and SAB events? (Also, Couples Counseling wit...

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Broken Social Scene, "Cause = Time," Barton Hall, 11/11/07

The Yo La Tengo/BSS extravaganza drew a veritable crowd of strange facial hairstyles, anorexics weighed down by large vintage sweaters, and Parkinson's disease-like dancing. Perhaps it was the flux of opener Yo La Tengo's set between prolific 12-minute long rock explosions and mellow e

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Okay then!

If you didn't already know/have heard, today was the Cortaca Jug, a chance for undergrads to a) get drunk on Miller High Life at 9 a.m., b) go to a football game (I know! We do have a football team?!), c) spew homophobic epithets at the opposing side.

Overheard at Cortaca:

Some IC students yelling at a Cortlander: "Go suck a dick, ...

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Today's track is one that will soothe your already-developing Cortaca Jug hangovers: "Houseboat" by Camera Obscura

Staff writer Edon Ophir, makes it to the top of my pressing news list again (double time!) with his Accent story, "Faking It." Sadly enough, it's not about orgasms, but instead that IC students have fake IDs! And they use them to go to bars?! And also, some of the IDs are really fake, but like,  BFD!, because Ithaca College doesn't really care t

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Star Trek + Photoshopped Anime = Gold!
You know when you were in fifth grade and your class all made time capsules filled with bric-a-brac from our times, like pogs, waterlogged tamagotchi cats, and Paula Cole cassettes? Then your teacher would say something like, "Some day, in the future, when cars fly, people will look at our relics and study

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