Idris Elba poaching eggs and hanging out on the beach and having great ties is basically the inverse of waiting for election results, so have that instead of tuning in to whatever television station is not going to actually have useful, anxiety-dispelling information to offer you yet:

Hang in there. I’ll be over on the main page liveblog keeping an eye on media coverage and other shenanigans.

The bridge is yours. But no links roundup today. What are you seeing at the polls? Were you able to vote without hindrance? Is everyone feeling okay out there?

Alex Rivera, the artist behind the LowDrone, explains his project as such:

LowDrone.com lets users remotely pilot the ‘LowDrone,’ a vehicle which melds the lowrider, a customized car outfitted with hydraulics that allow the car to ‘hop,’ with the functionality of the drone, an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with surveillance cameras that has been an evolving weapon and tool of airborne surveillance for nearly a hundred years. Lowriders are a technology developed primarily by Latino youth in barrios across the southwest. Drones are a technology recently deployed along the U.S. / Mexico border. Through LowDrone.com, users control a customized lowrider – the ‘LowDrone’ – and ‘hop’ over one of the most surveilled spaces on the planet: the U.S./Mexico border between Tijuana and southern California.

I thought the concept sounded a little cheesy, but the footage itself is actually quite beautiful, and emphasizes the permeability of the border:

It’s also a reminder that we don’t only use drones to try to kill terrorists. We’re a long, long way from satisfactory norms that govern how we kill, how we watch, and how we let ourselves be watched from above.

Waiting for results on Election Day can be an agonizing process–even before polls start closing. If you’re climbing up the walls waiting for news (your humble blogger is mainlining The Good Wife), here’s the definitive guide to how to distract yourself until the buzz about exit polls has died down and hard data starts coming in, depending on what flavor of Election Day Crazy is plaguing you.

If you’re: Getting burnt from your GOTV efforts.
Watch: You’re probably pretty busy, but grab S2E22 of Parks and Recreation
Why: If Leslie Knope can gut out the worst block of a diabetes telethon in Pawnee, all while Tom Haverford’s absconded with Detlef Schrempf, we can make it through a single day of turnout when the stakes are higher and where people only have to sacrifice their time, not their money.

If you’re: An atmospherically disillusioned Obama voter.
Watch: Definitely, Maybe
Why: I know, I know. Definitely, Maybe is my personal Swiss Army Knife of romantic comedies. But seriously. If you were swept up in the hope-y, change-y thing and are considering staying home today because you’re discouraged (rather than because you are, say, disappointed in Obama on an issue area and yet inexplicably see no daylight between him and Mitt Romney: I have no ideas for you), watch Definitely, Maybe as a reminder that the road of apathy runs through terrible Chinese food, jobs in the advertising industry, and ill-advised marriages. Save yourself. Watch this. Then hit the polls.

If you’re: The racialized run-up to Election Day drove you nuts
Watch: The Man (1972)
Why: James Earl Jones starred in this TV movie, available from Netflix that addresses the question of what it would take for a black man to convince America of his legitimacy as president. The movie’s more optimistic than reality, set in a world where a black president could intervene in apartheid, for example, as part of that legitimizing campaign. But post Jay-Z’s appearance on behalf of the Obama campaign yesterday, it’s a nice thought experiment in what this election would be like if we’d started this work forty years earlier.

If you’re: Sick of horserace coverage
Watch: Marathon the British miniseries of State of Play
Why: Actually, there are a lot of great wishful thinking reasons to want to watch State of Play. There are Britishly excellent lawmakers calling BS on climate scientists who’ve been bought by the energy industry, political flacks telling the lawmakers they represent how disgusted they are by them, and lots of parliamentary note-passing. But most importantly, it’s a look at what it might be like to cover a scandal that actually has implications for the character of the people involved. Also, it’s six hours.

If you’re: Wondering how Hillary Clinton would be doing if she were fighting for her second term.
Watch: Catch up on Political Animals
Why: I’m sorry we’re only getting one installment of the USA Network miniseries. But Sigourney Weaver is great as Elaine Barrish, a former First Lady who lost her shot at the Presidency to a younger, hipper flavor of candidate, then swallowed her pride, went to work in his administration, and dumped her husband’s cheating ass. Silly? Sure. But that doesn’t mean it’s not brain candy.

If you’re: More worried about Congress than the Presidential election
Watch: Wait until Friday and see Lincoln
Why: At its best, it’s an incredibly impressive, funny movie about what it takes to get ephochal legislation passed, with, among other amazing bits of casting, John Hawkes and Jame Spader as the first lobbyists. And as brilliant, hardline Republican Thaddeus Stevens, Tommy Lee Jones will make you wish that the House of Representatives was both less civil and much, much more articulate.

It’s hard to think of a clearer distillation of some strains of establishment thinking, and the way the publication that published these paragraphs–Politico–manifests it than this section of a premortem on the results of today’s election:

If President Barack Obama wins, he will be the popular choice of Hispanics, African-Americans, single women and highly educated urban whites. That’s what the polling has consistently shown in the final days of the campaign. It looks more likely than not that he will lose independents, and it’s possible he will get a lower percentage of white voters than George W. Bush got of Hispanic voters in 2000.

A broad mandate this is not. The pressure on Obama to deliver for this liberal base will be powerful. Already, top left-wing groups are pressuring him not to buckle on a grand bargain that includes any entitlement cuts.

Remember, folks: white men are the default, the baseline, a representation of political neutrality. The interests that are attributed to them–or you, if you’re one of the great white guys who read this blog–stand in for a fictional consensus, rather than being understood as a product of demographics, economics, and social circumstances that demand interrogation. Women and people of color, not to mention LGBT people and people with disabilities? We’re special interest groups. When we demand that our needs be met by our government, our interests are suspect, sinister. And it couldn’t possibly be that we share interests across our demographics, or even with those white men, that could provide a mandate for President Obama on certain issues.

It may be true that there is not a broad mandate, defined on these terms, to put a serious push behind improving the employment rate of people with disabilities, or to include transgender people in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or to combat racial profiling. And the fact that different sections of the electorate have different urgent needs may mean that President Obama, if he is reelected today, is handed the inverse of a clear mandate for one or two policy priorities beyond the obvious need to create jobs and continue the economic recovery: a broad portfolio of issues his supporters need him to deal with. That broad set of needs may be difficult to meet, if only because of an unfortunate incentive structure in our political system that makes it easy to score points by blocking aid to so-called special interests, as long as those interests have to scrape up collective power to be heard at all. But those issues are not rendered illegitimate because someone needs them. The needs or wants of corporations, or white men in the Heartland, are not more value-neutral than the needs of poor people, or people with disabilities, or transgender people, or women. And it would be delightful for publications that want to play a significant role in defining the Washington conversation to push back against the idea that the support of white men is somehow necessary to validate those needs, to perform the alchemy that transforms them from special interests into mandates.