By S.M.K.
You’re driving slowly through your residential neighborhood listening to “TiK ToK” by Ke$ha. The windows are down, and you have decided this is the best car ride ever. No, it isn’t Ke$ha or the good weather—it’s the fact that you’re getting road head.  Yes, road head. 
It was a Tuesday afternoon, and my then-boyfriend picked [...]

By Des Parrote
Mxxy name is Desiree Louise Parrote and I’m a highly attractive 21-year-old college student. I’m always busy running around to numerous activities, and I enjoy lonely nighttime walks along poorly lit paths.
So why isn’t anyone stalking me?
Lately, a bunch of my friends have been followed around by sketchy little troll-like men with greasy [...]

“Boy, why you so obsessed with me?” sings Mariah Carey in her most recent single, echoing many previous songwriters’ thematic preoccupations with obsession. But obsession is more than just fodder for lyricists—obsessions are prevalent among individuals and institutions. With the advent of the Internet, people are given new forums for indulging in their obsessions. Some [...]

From the May 2007 Issue.

The Family Issue
Family is a word that is often said but not often considered. With seemingly half of America freaking out about the “destruction” of the nuclear family, with more families eating dinner separately or from the microwave, with our parents calling us at least five days a week, and with our aunts and uncles friending us on Facebook, family is a constant presence in all our lives. We can’t get away from it. But what does it mean, exactly—family? Read More

By Blake Avory
First let us take a minute to review the debacle that was known as the VMA’s. From Lady Gaga’s crazy four costume changes to Kanye West’s drunken outburst, it was a sight to be seen.
From the moment Kanye stepped out of his limo everyone should have known that he was going to do [...]

First Date Hook-up: Myth or Magic
By Jennifer Levitt
I have suffered through my fair share of stories about hook-ups gone horribly wrong. Dating stories though? Now those are purely pre-historic. With more people choosing hook-ups over long-lasting relationships, does this mean they’re having more fun, or does it just add more pressure?
Nowadays, relationships seem to be [...]

Bryan Chambala
There are no real halcyon days of college to look back on for me. I was mostly pickled in beer and liquor. I wrote drunk, which is idiotic, and I went through four-day weekends drunk and skipped so many classes I didn’t graduate. There was plenty of fun, but I look back with embarrassment [...]

Buzzsaw has been around for 10 years; questioning authority, mocking culture, reviewing bands you’ve never heard of and pointing out hypocrisy at Ithaca College. You could call it an institution.

These are the first Comments (or letters from the editors), printed in the first two issues.
From Volume 1, Issue 1:
“If you don’t treat your baby right, she’ll come see me some lonely night.”
-Steve Earle, “Graveyard Shift”
For those of you who have tired of what the Ithaca area has to offer in terms of news [...]