The Moon is following me...
I was driving the Aerostar to pick up Robert from kung-fu practice with James and Emmeline in the back seat. It's only about five minutes away, but at 20 minutes past 5 PM at this time of year, it's night time anyway, so it was dark outside.
"De moon is following me," said James.
I took a quick glance in the rear view mirror. James was strapped tightly in his car seat, head covered with a warm knit Blue's Clues hat. Eyes wide as plates, he was looking outside the window to his left, where Robert normally sits. His gaze was fixed heavenward, staring at the pale moon hanging in the sky.
"The moon isn't following us, James," I explained. "It just looks that way because it's so big and high up in the sky, far away."
I heard him grunt a little a few moments later as I turned the minivan down a side road. His eyes were still fixed on the grinning round face of the moon, casting its light across the landscape.
"No, daddy. De moon IS following me."
With evidence in hand clearly disproving daddy's theory, James seemed content with his hypothesis. A few minutes later he was fast asleep. Nap time.
Comments
Did you ever hear that thing from the Simpsons where Christopher Walken is reading "Goodnight Moon"? I'll hand over the MP3 if you want me to. It's too good to miss.
Posted by: Corey | January 30, 2003 08:41 PM
"... Don't make me tell you AGAIN about the scootching. You are in the red, chop chop."
Posted by: Peter Cohen | February 1, 2003 08:52 AM
FOR COREY : (your post dated january 30, 2003)...i am trying to find an MP3 copy of christopher walken reading goodnight moon on the simpsons, found your blog through google. i know i'm (a) strange(r) but would love to have that file, or at least be able to stream it online for a friend who's never heard it, but is cracking up at the idea.
email me if you can help.
thanks!
Posted by: scotty | July 14, 2003 04:00 PM
Can anyone direct me to a downloadable MP3 or wav file of that great sound clip from The Simpsons--Jay Mohr as Christopher Walken reading "Goodnight Moon." Please help! Thanks...
Posted by: Mitch | August 4, 2003 12:22 PM
i am trying to track down the goodnight moon speech, anyone able to help me out? thanks a lot
Posted by: Amanda | January 29, 2004 05:09 PM
I, too, would love to hear that one- just been Googling that very episode for that exact phrase in wav (or any) format! Hope you can help me out.
Posted by: Nick | June 4, 2004 04:16 PM
I FOUND IT I FOUND IT!!
Duhhh, stupid me, go to the source: http://www.jaymohrlive.com/millennium/mp3.htm
Posted by: Nick | June 4, 2004 04:37 PM
I'm trying to find a transcript of the speech, already got the mp3 from Jay Mohr's archive. Can anyone help?
Posted by: AutoPilate | September 7, 2004 09:15 PM