Today's Most Beautiful Thing

Paul Potts, a cell-phone salesman from Wales, is today's most beautiful thing. This melancholy, unconfident, overweight Welsh phone salesman in his late thirties auditioned for the British version of American Idol, "Britain's Got Talent." He stood there with horrendous teeth and an awful suit that didn't fit and announced to the judges that he was going to sing opera--two of the judges exchanged a sarcastic raise of the eyebrows, as if to say "oh god help us." And then he did this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA

A few weeks later, he won the entire competition. Here's his finale performance; after this, millions of people across Britain phoned in their votes, and he won. http://youtube.com/watch?v=EfVImoJSAMo

Yes, yes. There is grace in the world.