We were Harold and Kumar before “Harold and Kumar”

How can you not want to see a movie whose unofficial tagline is:

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Back at Crazy Go Nuts University,
Dhimant Patel was a crazy chemistry masters student, I was enjoying a
second undergrad career as a computer science undergrad, and we
specialized in hanging out at the local alt-rock club, doing goofy-ass
things, secretly lusting after Zoe the cute local Satanist chick and
other Harold and Kumar-ish things that I shall not elaborate at this
time.

(Despite both being outgoing, extroverted guys, neither of us did ask
Zoe out. She was a little young, had a big, mean boyfriend, and hey:
there’s the whole “she’d probably turn you into a human sacrifice”
thing. We both ended up dating cute girls without allegiances to scary
ritualistic freakshows.)

Here’s a photo of us from last year at our friend Derek Walker’s stag party:

Other “Harold and Kumar” references online include the latest Secret Asian Man comic:

…as well as…

• Hooray for Harold and Kumar, a stoner movie with Asians
• Sidekicks who step into the spotlight
• Harold and Kumar, High Times and Hijinks
• Harold and Kumar go against type
• “Harold and Kumar” a revolution, in its way
• “…one small step for Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans in crude, juvenile stoner flicks, and one giant leap for mankind.”
• Kal Penn, John Cho and Danny Leiner talk about “Harold and Kumar”
• Cinema Confidential’s interview
  
• An interview with John Cho and Kal Penn

…also, in the blogosphere…

• Stacy approves
• “Finally a movie with somebody called Kumar that does not have a wedding in it, or has a spice or tea related item in its title.”

• A special message from Kal Penn and John Cho:

  “This film marks the first time a major studio is releasing a project
  with two Asian American males as the leads. We don’t have
  stereotypical accents, we don’t passively tread
  through the story, we’re not asexual or hypersexual, there are no
  martial arts scenes, one-dimensional cab driver segments. We play a
  couple of all-American guys who happen to be of Indian and Korean
  descent.”

• I, Feelafel’s review.
• Min Jung confesses to having been this close to being “Cindy Kim” from the movie.
• Mind Poop’s review.
• Digging for Kryptonite’s review.
• Even weebl and bob (or a friend of theirs) approves!

and last, but certainly not least, Wikipedia’s entry for White Castle and the official site of the White Castle hamburger chain.