i can't believe (original version)

1. That it's almost December ... that it's almost 2007 ... that it's almost 2008 ... and that we're all getting older ... and older ... and older.
2. That some people camp out all night just to go shopping. Personally, I'd consider camping out all night ... but only if it meant I never had to go shopping again.
3. That some people believe that politics aren't a part of arts and entertainment and culture when really they're inextricably linked. Politics is anything that involves choice. I chose to write that. You choose to agree or disagree with me. That is politics. See?
4. That I was married once ... and everything in life seemed wonderful and fine.
5. That I was divorced once ... and nothing in life seemed wonderful and fine.
6. That I just said that.
7. That decent affordable apartments in San Francisco still exist ... "decent" apparently moved out on "affordable" sometime back in the mid-'90s ... after a great deal of arguing and plate throwing ....
8. That traffic downtown on a Friday afternoon somehow actually moves .... Actually, that traffic downtown ever moves.
9. That the number of dog and cat stories in the newspaper appears to be going up ... and that more human beings aren't concerned about this bias.
10. That you don't recognize who sang the lyrics to this song: "No saints, no sinners, no devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You're always letting us humans down."
11. That they let me write this ... and that ... and the other thing ... and that they briefly considered not letting me write it ... and that some of you believe that words and writing and truth and music and politics no longer matter anymore. They do. Believe it.