Paul Weidner, toward the end of a successful life-long career as a stage and theater director, and at the beginning of a so-far very short career as a novelist (Memoirs of a Dwarf, Terrace Books, in fine bookstores everywhere), got so fed up with the Bushies that he joined America Coming Together in 2004 to phone bank, do voter registration and spend a year—OK, so actually, it was a week—in Akron, Ohio working for supposedly non-partisan, 527ish progressive causes (read: the Kerry campaign), which actually won in Akron if not in Ohio as a whole (sigh). Such spotty political activity made Paul very glad when ACT New York morphed into ACT NOW, a PAC that doesn’t pussyfoot around and supports candidates outright. Association with said organization allows him to have fun with a lot of fun people, pounding the hard pavements of places like Yonkers, Queens, Norristown (PA), and Nassau County, and, of course, celebrating afterwards.