So...I pulled off a minor miracle by getting to see these longtime, awesome High School buddies for the first time in the flesh in @ least a decade night before last to see "Crazy Rich Asians" @ the Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson! Juelz (Rudes) & Ben (Thompson) are proof positive that it's your never too old or late to rekindle some of the better moments and people that come along in your growing up years. Car trouble and a an overactive cell phone delayed but did not keep me from going, either. We had the absolute BEST time catching up on all the life happenings and reminiscing over the quintessential H.S. dramas (not to mention that Biology group project we collectively aced)! Thank God for social media to make the gathering possible and oh yeah, the movie is nothing short of incredible!🤩🥟🥠🥡🍚!! Everybody needs to go see it; its manna from heaven when Hollywood creates, offers and delivers casting diversity at such impeccable quality to boot. The Film & Video pupil + critic in me is colored quite impressed🎆🎇✨. It'd have my Oscar for Best Picture vote if "Black Panther" doesn't get it for some dumb reason during the 2019 festivities😎. Can't wait to get together w/ them again more often now😀😁😉😆😊... On a sadder note, everybody do keep Ben (& his parents) in your thoughts and prayers as he heads off presently to teach English to University Chinese students in the said homeland for the next year (again). It's a noble venture and we'll obviously miss him until he returns! He's Shanghai bound as I type. #OldFriendsaretheBestFriends #GoodTimes #FunnyHowTimeFlies #GoofyCameraPoses #Friends4Life #ThreeOddAmigos #LateNightExcursions #SummertimeEndingSadness #NotALLofHighSchoolwasHell #CrazyRichAsians #CrazyGood #CrazyFunny (at Texas's 30th Congressional District) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnDQmOlH1Y3POiVLarMaCEyg7lmdciGTGRVH-I0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lx3urqaaphry