Boy, Oh Boy!: An interview with Taika Waititi

An Interview with Taika Waititi

Campus editorial damned

Oh boy. Here we go again. Letter from Ted O\u27Meara, Vice President of the University Student Government defending the position of the Student Senate on the Wilde-Stein club

"I heard the News today, oh Boy"

News-based indicators are in vogue in economics. But they tend to be applied with little consideration for the properties of news itself. In this paper, we try to shed light on the nature of this type of data. Drawing from established findings in communication science and journalism studies we argue that news-based indicators should be taken with a pinch of salt, since news is a somewhat biased representation of political and social reality. Contrary to economics and other social sciences, journalism tends to be driven by outliers, the outrageous, and the outraged. This structural dissonance between journalism and other disciplines needs to be born in mind when dealing with news content as data, and it is of particular concern in the context of economic developments. While economics and statistics are inherently backward looking, trying to make sense of the (immediate) past using models and probability distributions derived from bygone observations, journalism is about the present, and sometimes about the future. What’s going on right now? And where does it lead us? Seeking answers to these questions makes news a valuable data input, as a measure of what drives society at a given point in time. We show how taking the properties of news into consideration influences the entire process of large-scale news analysis. As an example, we update our Uncertainty Perception Indicator (Müller and Hornig 2020), setting it on a firmer footing by enlarging the newspaper corpus considerably. The new version of the UPI for Germany yields some remarkable results. At the trough of the Covid-19-induced economic crisis in Q2 of 2020, the overall indicator already decreased considerably, although it stayed at elevated levels. Deconstructing the UPI by applying the topic modelling approach Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), shows that the coverage of the pandemic has merged with the issue of climate change and its mitigation. In the past decade or so incalculable politics was the main driver of economic uncertainty perception. Now truly exogenous developments, neither elicited by the economy nor by politics, come to the fore, adding to the sense of an inherently unstable world

Where Do We Go From Here

VERSE 1Paddy Mack drove a hackUp and down Broadway,Pat had one expression and he’d use it ev’ry day;Anytime he’d grab a fare, to take them for a ride,Paddy jumped upon the seat, cracked his whip and cried: CHORUS 1“Where do we go from here, boys,Where do we go from here?Anywhere from Harlem to a Jersey city pier;”When Pat would spy a pretty girl, he’d whisper in her ear,“Oh joy, Oh boy,Where do we go from here?”here?” VERSE 2One fine day, on Broadway,Pat was driving fast,When the street was blown to piecesBy a subway blast;Down the hole poor Paddy went, a thinkin’ of his past,The he says, says he, I think these words will be my last: CHORUS 2“Where do we go from here, boys,Where do we go from here?Paddy’s neck was in the wreck, but still he had no fear;He saw a dead man next to him and whispered in his ear,“Oh joy, Oh boy,Where do we go from here?” VERSE #First of all, at the call,When the war began,Pat enlisted in the army as a fighting man;When the drills began, they’d walk a hundred miles a day,Tho’ the rest got tired, Paddy always used to say: CHORUS 3“Where do we go from here, boys,Where do we go from here?Slip a pill to Kaiser Bill and make him shed a tear;And when we see the enemy we’ll shoot them in the rear,He saw a dead man next to him and whispered in his ear,“Oh joy, Oh boy,Where do we go from here?

Prophecy on Fast-Forward

I recall a conservative political commentator saying that the Democratic Party was the “A” team, while the Republicans were the “B” team on the road to socialism. Boy, oh boy was that a truism. Things are moving so fast in the last six months that stagesetting events are happening so fast that no one person can keep up with events. Prophecy is on fast-forward

I\u27ve Found the Girl I want

[Verse 1] I\u27ve been lonesome all my life because I\u27ve live alone Gee! you ought to see this girl, she\u27s there from head to toes Never had a little girl that I could call my own My home has been most place that I, could hang my hat But everything has changed today, now what do you think of that? [Chorus] I\u27ve found the girl I want I\u27ve found the girl I want Met her \u27round the corner, boys, a walking down the street Oh Boy Oh Boy Like her smile and like her style for I\u27ve kissed the girl I want I\u27ve squeezed the girl I want Going to be a wedding day between the first and last of May For I\u27ve found the girl I want [Verse 2] Gee! you ought to see this girl,She\u27s there from head to toesHas the face, the figure and she has the classy clothes,She\u27s got me going goodness knows,I don\u27t know where I\u27m atAd she\u27s going to be my wife,now what do you think of that? [Chorus

Oh! Boy, What A Girl

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Oh Boy Comics! A Reflexive Ethnography Of Comics And Childhood

This is a reflexive ethnography that interweaves a 1960s Midwest childhood with the culture of comic books and a critique of the 1960s and the nuclear family. My comic choices were more eclectic than my brother’s vast collection of Marvel, but both of us found in comics an escape from a strained childhood. The comic books, like all art, held meanings that were deeper than the pamphlet’s face value. What did this art form do for us? Certainly entertained, but even more. Becoming immersed in the lives of the characters, we were not alone. We lived lives balancing eggs on spoons, and we collected little pictured stories that offered clearer insights about family life than what the world was telling us

Elected cowardice: Blaming the constituents

Oh, boy. Here we go again. First we learn that UMO Student Senate has suddenly decided they can\u27t give the Wilde-Stein Club $300 to help finance for their scheduled gay conference. Next, we find out that the Republican House members, during a party caucus, decided they can\u27t consider giving the University of Maine any more money until the Board of Trustees reneges on their decision to let the gays hold the statewide conference at UMO