Chapter 26
At first Paul had wanted to get a permit to use the very same
park where they'd pulled their prank nine days earlier. But permits
turned out to be harder to get than he'd thought, and so they'd had
to use an alternate venue - The Woodbine Restaurant, which happened
to be the very place Raff had been eating when he videotaped the
prank for TV. As Paul watched the rabid-right radio and
techno-conservatives of Silicon Valley mill about the two open bars
and munch on sushi and crab cakes snatched from trays carried by
roving crew members, he realized this was a much, much better
choice. For one thing they didn't have to worry about a tent or any
expensive equipment when it came time to make their getaway. For
another, it was raining outside.
The Concerned Citizens for a
