…well, you can guess what happened.
This week, our Sunday Standout is not an article but, instead, a letter — penned by the venerable Andrew S. Wall, attorney at law, to yours truly.
Apparently, as Mr. Wall points out, we’re not the only Column5 on the Internet. The other one is a consulting company, has a less-cute site, and is not nearly as famous. But we digress.
Because of this unfortunate coincidence, Column5 (the blog) will likely be known as “Column5″ for only a short time longer. If we’re lazy, we might just become “ColumnFive,” as Mr. Wall so kindly suggested. We might change our name entirely. Or, we might just adopt a symbol as our new name, and simply be called “The Blog Formerly Known as Column5.”
Either way, we’re keeping our domain name, so typing “column5blog.com” into your browser will still bring you right back here. Also, we’re taking the dog.
If you have legal advice, optimism, or name suggestions to share, comment away. In the meantime, we’ll just be here — toilet-papering houses, running stop signs, and generally living outside the letter of the law.
Rebel5. That’s us.
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Can we get leather jackets and be like James Dean? Be rebels WITH a cause?!?!?
Kaleigh, I absolutely approve of this. New rule: All columnists must wear leather jackets.
We can even take it one step further, by constantly acting like tormented teenage souls. And by driving cars off of cliffs. Too much?
Love it! And don’t worry I have a wonderful leather jacket that you can borrow Kaleigh.
Becky, unfortunately the tormented teenage soul thing won’t work, however, since none of you are teenagers anymore….lol
Or maybe you could bring the resources of the greatest Journalism School in the world to bear on this issue. Don’t you have a Legal Aspects of On-line Journalism person who knows something about legal issues of this type of thingy and who may not only assist you in the research but defend your honor (not to mention your blog name)? What kind of journalist goes down without a fight (or at least a “learning experience”)? Having said that, how about a “Column V” (that’s a roman numeral for our Gringo friends)? Much more sophisticated, I think.
Sorry to hear about the legal trouble. As far as leather jackets go, I have one, so I suppose that qualifies me as a columnist? Please don’t make me drive my new car off a cliff…
But, in all seriousness, you adopted the Column5 thing in reference to the Mizzou columns, right? Assuming it doesn’t lead to more legal trouble, try using something else that represents Mizzou.
What would society be like without lawyers to pick on?
~Andrew S. Wall….yes THAT one.
Welcome to the blog, Mr. Wall! We’re glad to see you bring with you a sense of humor.
If I start using “the venerable Andrew S. Wall” on my business cards are you going to sue me?
Mr. Wall, you assume that we can afford legal representation! Remember that we are college students, and only Ramen is within reach of our budgets.