PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney This guy Tay Zonday and his "Chocolate Rain" lyrics are tripping me and a lot of other people out. "I am a singer-songwriter-vocalist. I do everything. No style is off-limits. No two videos are alike. From Bach to Tupac, Opera to Screamo, Expect the Unexpected!" That's what Tay Zonday YouTube site says. (I hope that means he's getting revenue sharing.) "Yes, I have a deep voice. No, I don't fake it," Tay Zonday continues. I wish he would give more info about his nationality -- something I always try to decipher. Is he black? Is he Indian? I want to know. Is that what "Chocolate Rain" means? With the property value line and all... "Yes, I look young. I am 25 years old. I have never studied piano or voice formally. Several of my videos have free MP3s and/or sheet music that you can download in the video details!" Right now, Tay Zonday's personal website (or blog?) redirects back to YouTube, but I...

by Paula Neal Mooney I hate fear-mongering emails about cell phones exploding at gas station pumps. I dislike the way certain emails -- like the one about the fake baby cries that forced women to exit their homes and get attacked -- kept my friend up at night, unable to sleep. And it gets on my nerves too, Bonnie , when folks don't trim all that text off the top of their forwarded emails. And finally, though I love being nosey and seeing who folks have included in their email lists, I know other folks get annoyed when people don't protect their email addresses and blind copy their whole lists. This is all a preface to explain why I usually don't talk about stuff like this, but when my friend forwarded me this You Tube video literally showing purses being stolen at gas pumps , I figured it is a good, valid waring. So there's my public service duty for the day. Lock those car doors. Subscribe to Paula Mooney by Email Bookmark http://www.paulamooney.blogspot.com/ or Techn...

by Paula Neal Mooney My mother raised me to have couth . (If you don't know what "couth" means, that might be a tip-off that you're lacking a little bit of it.) Mommy's definition of the kind of black folks who lacked couth were the ones who might: * Walk down city streets eating and talking "loud and wrong" * Go out in public with curlers in hair * Use words like "gooder," the cringing "his-self" and phrases like "I be going..." The list of uncouth-like crimes goes on and on. I thank my mother tremendously for being the kind of woman who taught me manners and correct English. The Lord has used my uber-couthness to take me far businesswise and in my personal life... ...but yet and still, I realized that having all this couth at times has turned me into the type of elitist "uppity Negro" that blacks accuse other blacks of becoming. This comes to light in part because of my previous post about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...

Right before he died ...by Paula Neal Mooney All this week XM's 33 - The Spirit Channel has been playing excerpts from the Reverened Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. 's rousing, sing-songy sermons. What a man with holy power working mightily thru him. MLK is still our leader today, since no man has come close to leading us and affecting change since. This is my favorite MLK speech. After he closes with "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..." he collapsed into the arms of the men with him, as if he's expelled all his energy for a lifetime. Amazing... Bookmark http://www.paulamooney.blogspot.com/ or Please, please, please Add me to your Technorati favorites...or... Tags: mlk , youtube , video , martin , luther , king , mountain , top , promised , land , mine , eyes , have , seen , the , glory , of , the , coming , of , Lord

15 Seconds ... by Paula Neal Mooney So wonderfully funny the way the Lord works things out. Just last night I recorded my first ever 15 seconds worth of video on my hubby's cell phone, and uploaded that 15 seconds full of video to YouTube , the first time I ever uploaded a 15 second (or any kind of second) video on YouTube. While on YouTube, my hubby and I caught the 15 Seconds video contest for CBS on the front page. "Wow, look at that," I said, marveling at God's whole flow of life. Check out the 15 seconds rules here and the 15 seconds video promo here: I'll plow thru all the 15 seconds rules later (gotta live my life out of the blogosphere for a little bit, you know?) but here's the gist of it: If you had 15 seconds to tell the world whatever you want to, what would you say? Well, now's your chance to be seen and heard on national television, courtesy of CBS Interactive. Post your 15-second video on YouTube, and CBS Interactive will select one t...

When I think of my sweet home Chicago ...by Paula Neal Mooney I just finished watching this video of the PayPerPost Postie patrol cavorting about my hometown, the only city I ever knew the first sixteen years of my life -- sweet home Chicago. The little square image brought back so many memories -- my favorite part perhaps seeing the wintry-chilled breath coming out of the subjects' nostrils as they trolled a frigid Magnificent Mile down by the old Water Tower that survived the Great Fire, and the modern Water Tower Place where I've shopped. So many secrets beneath those bustling streets. The pedestrian walkways beneath the rumbling Loop, where downtown employees trot from skyscraper to skyscraper without ever going outside. Memories of the day that a creepy voice whispered from behind me, "Thank you for letting me watch you..." Eck. But there are more great memories than bad from my sweet hometown -- which is why I'd love to do a postie patrol like this and cavor...

"The existence of [Laura] Mallory Lane..." read the subject line of an email I received this morning, confirming to me that Laura Mallory Lane , or Mal Lane , as she goes by, is in fact a real girl. "I'm a real giiiiirrrrlll!!" I can almost hear Mal Lane saying now, like Pinocchio at the end of Shrek 2 . Anyhoo, this tipster (thanks, dude) let me to a video of Mal Lane "featured in a documentary called Upstaged ," he wrote. Ironic title, 'cause newcomer (I refuse to call her an ingenue, which some define as an "artless woman" and I hear Mal is a great actress) Mal Lane and her infamous blog posting melee is certainly about to upstage Aniston and Vaughn. "There is a brief clip of [Mal Lane] in their 'preview'," my Secret Squirrel (God I'm getting old if I can remember a cartoon name that's not even on DVD) continued, "but it's my understanding she's a big part of the movie, as she had the le...

Now that I've stepped into the 21st century and finally learned how to embed YouTube videos on my blog, I guess the next step is following these directions on how to download (or is that upload? No, that would be downloading, still.) YouTube videos on my Zune . Once I get a Zune , that is... Bookmark or blogroll me at http://www.paulamooney.blogspot.com/ and drop back in some day to see what I'm up to next. Blessings and love, Paula Tags: youtube , zune , videos , download , upload , how , to , put