With Super Tuesday only one day away, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are hitting the editorial pages to push their candidate, Barack Obama.

In The Washington Post on Monday, Chabon says up until now, he’s patiently listened as people told him reasons to not vote for Obama.

“But now, with everything seeming to come down, at last, to the first Tuesday in February, and in the wake of an all-out, months-long push by the cynicism industry to cook up an entire line of bad reasons ready to heat and serve, I admit that I’m getting tired of listening to rationales from people who know that Obama is a remarkable, even an extraordinary politician, the kind who comes along, in this era of snakes and empty smiles, no more than once a generation,” Chabon writes.

And on Sunday, Chabon and Waldman tried to win over undecideds in their home state through an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle.

To date, Chabon and Waldman have raised $25,930 for Obama. It’s just shy of their final goal of $30,000.

Ayelet Waldman has a piece in this issue of New York Magazine bashing Britney Spears and other bad mommies.

“Lately, Britney Spears has stepped up as our reigning bogeymama—her rap sheet long and varied and featuring, most recently, a standoff with the police and a stay in the psych ward,” Waldman writes. “She’s a Bad Mother; no worse, perhaps, than her own mother, whose publisher wisely shelved plans for her parenting memoir after 16-year-old Jamie Lynn announced that she’d just been jumped into the Bad Mother gang.”

If you’re living in Washington state, you might consider checking out the Village Theatre’s newest production on Monday. Among the short stories being performed is Ayelet Waldman’s controversial essay “Truly, Madly, Guiltily.”

A recap: In 2005, Waldman published the essay in the New York Times and says she loves her husband, Michael Chabon, more than her children. Readers reacte — negatively. Lots of name calling on the blogs and dirty letters-to-the-editor culminated in an appearance on “Oprah” where Waldman tried to explain herself.

Since then, things have been quiet, but the essay remains in the minds of her followers as, at the very least, a definitive landmark in her writing career. Now, the Village Theatre will perform an adaptation of the essay as part of Love is Love, which runs Nov. 29-Dec. 16.

“It’s like a one woman show with a bunch of monologues, one based on my essay,” Waldman says.

Tickets are $20-25.

Ayelet Waldman’s worst book signing ever? It was her first, according to a cool article on bad book signings by The Baltimore Sun.

“My very first book was published on the same day that one of the Harry Potter books was published,” she said. “I sat at a table at Waldenbooks telling people, ‘Right down the hall and turn left.’ I didn’t sell a single book, but I gave many, many people directions” to the stacks of J.K. Rowling books.

Waldman appears to have her dates mixed up a little. Nursery Crimes, her first novel, was published June 1, 2000, a month before The Goblet of Fire hit stands. She probably meant to say her signing was the same day Harry Potter came out.

Again, apologies for the lack of recent updates. Chabon news has been hard to come by as of late, and I’ve been busy with life myself.

I thought, though, given all the headlines of late about the Democrats and fundraising, we might check in on how Chabon and Waldman are doing. As you may recall, in April, Chabon and Waldman endorsed presidential candidate Barack Obama. Their goal has been to raise $25,000 for the guy.

Where are they so far? Since then, they’ve raised $10,970 from 51 people for Obama, according to their outreach page.

And since April, Chabon has himself jumped into the donor game. Waldman had already donated $4,600, this site reported, but records at the time hadn’t shown any contributions from Chabon for 2007. Now, according to FEC records, Chabon has himself contributed $4,800, the maximum amount for both primary and general election cycles. The contributions are both dated April 28.