Day 84: Charlottesville Rest Day

The Poe exhibit was closed, but I biked over to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. The house is truly extraordinary and unique. Many aspects of the house were built with mechanical apparatus. In the same way we may lay cable inside walls, Jefferson built cables and pulleys inside his. His house was a showcase of American knowhow, and his own ingenuity as it’s architect is evident in each nook. This must have impressed subsequent owners so much that the house has survived almost completely intact for two hundred years! It was even under Confederate control, and survived unscathed!

Afterwards I headed back into Charlottesville and got me a Virginia crab cake sandwich. With real Virginia crab! This must have influenced my tv-watching, because I ended up watching the Spongebob Squarepants movie. Truly one of the funniest animated movies I’ve ever seen. Sure there are some fantastic bits, such as ‘riding the hasselhoff’ and ‘alexander clam bell’ but man, can they nail a facial expression. John Krisfaluci, oh great god of wild take, your baton has deftly passed to Stephen Hillenburg.

Somewhere in there I grabbed a coffee and doodled some random character bits for Mustaches. My first attempts at Poe and Virginia, done in Virginia even. I took a stab at Teddy Roosevelt’s hydro-assist armor, but I think it’s a first try. I can probably steampunk it up a bit more. The Poe is the ‘uncorrupted’ Poe, before Virginia dies. I think I’m drawing big foreheads too much. Perhaps that symbolizes something?