Peter Overby

formerly NPR's power, money and influence correspondent

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“Stupid Girls” by the Stones

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@DavidAstinWalsh Some girls by the Stones

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@jackspeer1 I missed some episodes. What happened to the old TT?

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@pptsapper I read somewhere — long, long ago — that Mahone wound up as a general in the war on Cuba. Also that he watched the US troops moving up San Juan Hill & shouted “Get them damn Yankees.”
Or words to that effect.
FWIW

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You should’ve bought a 20-year-old Saab.

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@DoualyX You’re brave, Doualy. Did the builders at least insulate the floors?

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Finally, Jerry Lee detaches himself, saunters back onstage to hit the final verse & refrain right on time. … Rest of the show was as good, a little less interpersonal. And no matches were tossed on the piano.

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…invites a woman to stand up. They start kissing. Deeply. The band cooks along minus the Killer for a while, and a while more. The ardent couple never stop.3/4

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Jerry Lee stands up at the piano, tucks his mic into his waistband & steps off the stage into the audience.

He goes to nearest table, where he….
2/

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Small recollection re Jerry Lee. I saw him in the mid ‘70s, at a dinner theater outside DC. He & band rocked, as we knew they would. Somewhere past mid-set, they swung into a weepy honky-tonk shuffle, “One Has My Name, the Other Has My Heart.” And a couple verses in … 1/

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@BeschlossDC As a 13-year-old metro-Washington cynic, I couldn’t believe either side would push the button. As a JFK fan & nascent political junkie, I was fascinated by the maneuvering, leaking &c.

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Anyone have any memories of living through the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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@NPRextra Since the mid 80s. I’d listen to ATC while driving off to cover borough council meetings in North Jersey. Brian Naylor’s reporting esp caught my attention.

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@ThatEricAlper Chief Justice Warren swearing Eisenhower in for a second term, Jan 1957. My sister & I watched on the newish TV, agreed Warren looked like an owl.

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@GhostsofDC @wcp One marine & one sailor, who’s a medical corpsman, no?

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@Mr_Lincoln I’m impressed that Fido stayed mostly) still for that slow exposure. Doesn’t even look like they used a head clamp.

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@emilyasullivan @BaltimoreBanner Congratulations, Emily! & best of luck to WYPR, finding a reporter to fill your (metaphorical) shoes.

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Cloverleaf nostalgia

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This is a better, more forgiving traffic island.

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Auditioning to be backup singers in the Ike & Tina Revue… as featured in “20 Feet From Stardom.”

They didn’t get hired.

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Our dystopia's Statler and Waldorf:

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Tonight I’m thinking about my grandparents, who 116 years ago evaded the marauding Cossacks in Odessa & sailed for America. I guess the marauders come by sea now.

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If I remember right (as it were), his Kennesaw State College course in 1994-95 was Renewing American Civilization, which sounds current today, no? Some of his business donors were spotlighted & gave talks. It led to Ethics Ctte problems for him.