Okay, release day is officially here – hallelujah! – and that can only mean one thing: a free song download for all you last-minute browsers, onlookers, gawkers and window-foggers. I’m offering the title song to you for free for a limited time, just like a McRib. This is a huge step for me because I’m a cheapskate, and I normally frown upon the giving away of music. But that’s my problem, not yours. Either way, for a limited time – two days? two weeks? I haven’t decided yet – you can have “Chrome” (the song) for nary a penny. After that, I hope you’ll go buy the album in its entirety. You can purchase it here .

“ This song is about an abandoned bicycle I saw in Washington DC. Its owner never returned to reclaim it, and what once was surely a brilliant spectacle is now a rusted heap, two missing tires, a stolen seat, and chained to a bike rack beneath the whims of weather. I thought of us, in all our delightful and despicable humanity, in those times when life kicks and beats the hell out of us, in our most lamentable psalmist’s state, and we wonder aloud to God, “Where are you?”, “Why have you abandoned me?”, “Are you ever coming back?”. We long to one day be made new, to shine with the brilliance we once knew so well. If you’ve ever felt like a Schwinn, this song’s for you.

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Creek Diva helped her neighbor a few years ago recover a stolen iPod, but with the Sheriff’s Office help. @Anne, from my experience I found a very similar ipod that fit the description of my neighbors stolen ipod on Craiglist. A man phoned police after seeing his stolen IPod listed for sale on Craigslist. Call the police for help. Readers, although it would be tempting to seek revenge in this case, the caller did the right thing by calling the police for help.

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