Where am I going to be on Election Day? Well, I’ve got to go to bed soon, because D and I are under the batty impression that we’re going to wake up before 6AM tomorrow and shlep our sweats-clad behinds down a block to be one of the first voters in our ward.
After that, off to work it is, where I will monitor results at fivethirtyeight and at the new AP live election continuous stream. InformationWeek refers to the AP as the place to be since it is “the most reliable source for election results, which it has delivered every four years since Zachary Taylor won the presidential election in 1848.” Twitter also promises a lot of election-related action.
Come evening, I plan to shuttle between the First Draft extended crack van and my comfy couch, where I will chew on a pillow while watching the results come in on TV and, in the unbearable anticipation, lie down and moo like a cow in the middle of breach birth. With twin calves. Hey, you dismiss, but it was very cathartic in 2000 and 2004, especially in 2000 when I was in the fetal position on that same couch for days during the Bush-Gore-No Wait It’s Bush-Just Kidding It’s Gore-Electoral College-Florida-CHAD-WTF-Supreme Court-Bush boondoggle, which promptly ushered me into serious blogging.
Our alternative weekly, the Gambit, has teamed up with WWL-TV to live-blog the election results. Rest assured William Jefferson and Steve Scalise winning their respective races will induce extra, local-flavored, bovine-style madness.
Given the media hubbub surrounding the election and the new James Bond movie out right now, I can’t get Barry Adamson’s A Phantasy Bond Theme out of my head. “In case there’s trouble or we“re under attack, have no fear because Bond is black!”
