Happy birthday, David Archuleta!

As of Sunday, David Archuleta is a man.  Legal to vote and to drink in Argentina, Estonia, Hong Kong, Moldova and Sweden — but not in the U.S. Legal to appear on television shows without having to do hours of tutor-supervised studies. And now legally of age to marry in all 50 of the United States.

Needless to say, his 17th year was momentous for Archuleta, rocketing out of nowhere to become the instant leader of the greatest movement “American Idol” has every known; a million selling single; an album that should turn gold momentarily. Lately Archuleta has been making Christmas appearances just about everywhere on Earth.

So let us wish a very happy birthday to this shining light of Season 7, of whom in all my reporting in and around the Idoldome, in conversations with his comrades, the people who make the show and the fans who have had the chance to meet him, I have never heard anyone say that he has ever for one second been anything but the nicest lad on Earth. Not a single diva story in a year of “Idol.” That is an accomplishment.

The final stanza of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” is a bit of a hackneyed sentiment, but nonetheless seems to hit the nail on the head regarding the coming of age of young Archuleta.  So we post it here with our best birthday wishes:

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!

– Richard Rushfield

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Ahem. I saw this pic over at snarkys and thought it was a so sexy. erm.. cute. Heck he’s 18 now so I think I’m allowed to say it. Yes he’s sexy. Eep. *regains composure* Ahem. and so fitting for the occassion that i had to post it. Hope people over at snarkys don’t mind.

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