Happy 50th Birthday, Ralph Macchio!

News of Ralph Macchio's 50th birthday should be reason to celebrate and reflect on the life and work of one of the '80s most recognized movie stars. And it is! Once you get past the fact that Ralph Macchio is 50 -- and the implications this has for the rest of us.

I mean, what's left of my mind after this morning's Brett Ratner-Olivia Munn-seafood onanism meditation is utterly blown. Is the title character of the blockbuster family film that was the touchstone of my own 9h birthday party really a half-century old? How do we commemorate this event? I feel like could wax on all day about this. Ahem.

Anyway, please feel free to contribute your own sincere if destabilized birthday wishes below. And have a great 50th, Mr. Macchio! [Thanks to The Awl for the heads-up.]