Rock and Scroll

Jerry Garcia's guitar and Jack Kerouac's manuscript spark record auctions, plus our usual cartoons, Trump and war commentary, Jimmy and Stephen, and more.

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Stephen and Jimmy still going strong last night…

More comedy, from Melania at a presser yesterday: “As a visionary, I know success is not born overnight. Often alone at the top, I follow my passion, listen to my instinct, and always maintain a laser focus."

And from an anonymous Twitter wag: “Let me get this straight: a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner.”

The big, scandalous, but predictable news from last night, via Steve Brodner:

Israel’s bombing of Lebanon and refugee crisis there not getting nearly enough attention. From NY Times this morning: “The fighting has killed nearly 100 children in Lebanon, officials there said, and displaced a tenth of all children in the country….Another strike hit the campus of Lebanese University, killing two academics.”

Mussolini would have loved Trump’s new ballroom, writes Paul Goldberger, a former Times architecture critic.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville hit a new low yesterday, even for him:

Music

This is a Web-only bonus vid from folk fave Dan Reeder’s appearance with his daughter Peggy for the Colbert show last night, the John Prine classic, “Speed of the Sound of Loneliness.”

Zach Bryan bid and paid a record $12.1 million to secure Jack Kerouac's “Original Scroll” on which he famously typed “On the Road” at auction house Christie's in New York City last night. And at same auction:

From Live for Live Music site:

A legendary custom guitar once owned by Jerry Garcia, known as “Tiger,” sold for $9,500,000, or $11,560,000 including fees, at Christie’s in New York on Thursday as part of the Hall of Fame live auction of the late Jim Irsay‘s extraordinary collection, obliterating its pre-sale estimate of $1 to $2 million and ranking among the most valuable guitars ever sold at auction.

The result placed Tiger second on the evening’s leaderboard, behind only David Gilmour‘s “Black Strat”—the 1969 Fender Stratocaster most closely associated with Pink Floyd‘s defining recordings—which claimed the title of the world’s most expensive guitar ever sold at auction with a hammer price of $12,100,000, or $14,550,000 including fees, far beyond its $2 to $4 million estimate.

Yesterday we brought you Springsteen’s new cover of Shane MacGowan’s “Rainy Night in Soho” but did not know it will be part of a tribute album coming in November. Other contributors include: Steve Earle, Glen Hansard, Johnny Depp, Dropkick Murphys, Tom Waits, and a Hozier-Jessie Buckley duet. Meanwhile, classic Pogues, 1986 in Dublin:

From Tunes to Toons

Ann Telnaes

Mike Luckovich:

Matt Davies:

Bill Bramhall:

Adam Zyglis:

Luckovich again:

Goris:

Photo Finish

Continuing my series from earlier this month: “Baby Calla.”