Great things come in twos. For example, who could imagine Blondie in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly without Tuco? Or perhaps the Green Hornet without Cato (Bruce Lee, people!)? Would Red 5 have been able to fire those proton torpedoes and start a chain reaction that would blow up the first Death Star without a little help from Red 2? You're a dolt if you think so.

That said, I am proud to introduce to the painfully small Cut the Chatter audience a second author for this blog. Hopefully the range of topics covered will double with this new writer. I have covered topics from music to manliness to worldviews, and I think it is a disservice to our readership to not cover more topics. I'm pretty sure the new author, who will incidentally have as much creative control as myself, will be able to cover sports much more easily than myself. This new blogger will be in Auburn at least one year after me, and so we'll be able to cover collegiate sports from two locations (Auburn and Austin), although I doubt I'll be lifting high the Big 12 (is that what it's called?) over the SEC.

Just to demostrate the knowledge of our new author, he informed me today that there is no such thing as a 64th seed in the upcoming NCAA MBB tournament. I mean, whatever. That's cool.

This new author, ladies, but mostly gentlemen, is Auburn's own Chris Burdeshaw.


Mr. Burdeshaw to the left, myself, to the right. We didn't know at the time of the photo that we'd be doing this wonderful thing together. Photo used without permission, but of course we're assuming she wouldn't mind, of Allison Wilder.

Please give Chris your best Cut the Chatter welcome. All, like, two of you.

My musical suggestion to you is that, if you haven't already, listen to London Calling by the Clash. It's ranked quite highly on Rolling Stones' list of top albums, not that you should listen to the album for that reason alone. It's truly a fantastic album. I'm just sad it didn't come out this year, because I'd love to give it a top album of the year status.