She’s a fancy girl all the way.

“Let’s watch this video all the way through just one more time to make sure it’s perfect before posting it to the Internet. OK, done. It’s definitely perfect. It would be impossible for anyone to find anything to criticize or make fun of in this video. And it’s definitely going to help sell a lot of books. Good thing we self-published extras. Click UPLOAD.” That is my impression of you sitting on the couch next to your girlfriend the night that she asked you for your opinion about her new video before you guys went to sleep in the bed that you share in the apartment that you share as two people building a life together. (Thanks for the tip, werttrew.)

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  1. I’m pretending to read Videogum right now, but I’ve actually got The Single Girl’s Guide to Meeting European Men clumsily taped to my monitor. I am going to get so many laids!

    • I just flipped my hair at your up-thumb, which if you refer to page 25, means I’m totally into your comment.

    • I’ll bet her “catching guys reading her book” is always like that. She walks up to her friend reading the newspaper and they feel obligated to put it away and talk to her out of politeness. Then she coyly asks if they were really reading her book and they are just like “Bitch, get a life.”

  2. IF ONLY she were my girlfriend…. alas, i’m not European, ARGH!

    • “I’m a guy. I had absolutely no interest in this book, but my wife did. After she read it, she told me it was the greatest piece of 21st century literature.” – real quote from an actual, real, non-Katherine-Chole-Cahoon-created-alias written five star review on Amazon.com. Classic!

      • Also, in case no one else went and read the aforementioned real, normal review, i thought it pertinent to include that by the end of the very regular, not-at-all-unusual and highly authentic customer reflection, said customer- who oddly was not at all disturbed by his wife’s strong interest in a book on picking up strange foreigners (which he also states she sorely regrets not having read earlier in life)- had decided that he was in fact now gay and ready to buy a boarding pass to Berlin to go cruise some beautiful European spice!

        what i’m saying is, maybe this really IS the greatest piece of 21st century literature?? can we fast track this over at bookgum, you guys???

  3. “Yeah, I’d like to buy a book. The Single Girl’s Guide to Meeting European Men. No, no, no, it’s for my sister. No, I do not have the Internet so I order things on the phone.”

  4. I’m reading this book to know girls better, of course, that’s not an excuse and I’m definitely not secretly into Czech dudes

  5. who orders books over the phone, while making grilled cheese no less?

  6. I hate it when my girlfriend claims to be single. I think it’s time to update my Facebook to “It’s complicated.”

  7. Katherine, if you’re reading this, I heard the code word from some of my platonic girlfriends, NOT from reading your slinktionary! Promise! PLEEEEZE RETURN MY CALLS!

  8. “Oh hai Katrina, I was just reading the newspaper. Very interesting article. I’m going to put it right here.”
    http://jeffkatz.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a721c2d7970b0120a94b3c16970b-800wi

  9. also, i like how the background music seems to have been lifted from diddy kong racing.

    • You know how sometimes you have iTunes open and playing on your computer, but your headphones are not on, and then you put them back on to watch something on the Webs, and you’re like, “This thing on the Web has really mismatched music!” but you just forgot you had iTunes on? I checked, while watching this, but my iTunes was not on. That was just the music.

  10. Clearly, men reading a book called “Meeting European Men” at rest stops is the best way to pick up women.

  11. Katherine can keep her European men. I’ll take that sexy multi-tasker who can make a mean grilled cheese whilst ordering books over the phone.

  12. I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that she has killed a man

  13. When she aggressively sat on the side of the Viking Magic at 26 seconds in, you know she overshot the first time and fell in the water. Maybe the second & third too.

    That’s our Katherine.

  14. If all girls are anything like me, which they are, duh, since all girls, like all European Men, are clearly a single homogeneous group with no diversity in wants, needs, or desires, they can be wooed by Dr. Who, sandwiches, and dinosaur action figures.

    You’re Welcome!!!

  15. I just has a physical response from feeling embarrassed for everyone in this video. I may have actually broken out in hives. I’m sure that was definitely her intent.

  16. Should we email Andrew to review this book for his show?

    • “People trying to date European men is just like how people shouldn’t marry outside of their race because of the purity and white people having their own land.”

      -Andrew

  17. You guys know they made this into a movie? It’s called Taken.

  18. This is really just a ploy to lure European men into the Fellowship of the Sun, you guys.

  19. If KCC had managed to talk at a normal pace, this video would only be a minute, maybe 1:20 tops. Lucky for us, our girlfriend has a strange speech impediment that makes her pause excessively between words so we can enjoy her not-at-all-grating voice longer. So sexy! European men!

  20. Coincidentally, I watched this video while on my polka-dotted couch in knee high jeans and sandals.

  21. Every once in a while, I see something like this and wonder if maybe there’s something that I do that lacks self-awareness like this does. Then I think that just wondering if that might be possible means it is not.

  22. Katherine is a great girlfriend, everyone. She’s just so well-traveled, and she’s good at picking up on the little things. I don’t even mind that she’s always trying to foster long-term relationships with European men behind my back. I really couldn’t be happier with this relationship.

  23. You’re not giving us a lot to work with here, Gabe.

  24. “I hope mom doesn’t catch me. I’m not supposed to be in her crafts room when she’s not home.”

  25. My friday just got better.

    Also, I liked the first guy’s craft room

  26. I like the fact that one of the guys is using his iPhone the wrong way.

  27. Clearly written and directed by Tommy Wiseau.

  28. Ok but seriously, where is the petition to make the next Taking One for the Team “Discretely read through all of ‘The Single Girl’s Guide to Meeting European Men’ in Public”? Where??

    Oh, right here.

    *signed*

  29. The camera eye in this piece is so beautifully detached… almost Chris Maker-esque. A chuckle… a sigh; Small moments in anonymous peoples’ lives… a Raymond Carver motif brought to life. We barely get to know to know the character, or what he’s reading, or who is who. When you watch this clip, you’re looking at life.

  30. man watching that video made me feel like I was on ludes.

  31. I have seen pornos that have started out exactly like this mess. The music and everything. I was so worried that at any moment the video would cut to some horrifying “European” gang bang starring KCC.

  32. One thing we can all agree on…You need a fully functioning woodshop to make a book cover.

    • Because nothing is more inconspicuous than a book with a jacket made out of a grocery bag that has ‘Market Analysis’ scrawled on it in sharpie. TOTALLY NORMAL.

    • Hey, he’s an artist, did you see those paintings? That’s how he managed that exquisite cover design.

  33. I think “fancy girl” is the “code word” for “likes anal.”

    • I thought he said “fancy girl” at first, then I thought he said “funseekeeuur.” Which I believe is code for the same thing.

  34. I just wanted to learn some Viking Magic…

  35. these videos make me so happy. just a deep, abiding contentedness with life and living. tip 20 in “super!’s guide to occasionally joining online dating sites but then never going on any dates with anyone who messages you” is to find webvideos you really like, and then watch them over and over and recreate them alone in the mirror.

  36. Amount of their free time that guys spend trying to get into women’s heads: zero. Zero amount of time.

  37. Chapter 7: Expect foreskin

  38. This is so long.

  39. The guys in this video must have degrees in reverse psychology.

  40. I need to purchase this book for my mother.

  41. How much she paid that guy to say “Hi, I’d like to order the Single Girls Guide to Meeting European Men” on camera is definitely not equal to the amount of dignity and self respect he lost at that moment.

  42. Sorry, double post, but after I commented on her first video, and I tried to comment on this new one, it turns out that SHE BLOCKED ME.

  43. at 2:24, you can hear katherine’s siren song which she summons with the wink of an eye, luring european sailors to their doom.

    also, i’m glad there is a book publisher dedicated to literature written by mentally challenged women.

  44. Wait — why is the European guy reading the book? In his case, shouldn’t she be doing all the work?

  45. Ten more minutes of whisper talking at the kitchen table, please.

  46. Personally, I think they should have shot this on the “Enchanted Conquistador” instead.

  47. 20 new and 7 used copies on amazon

    WHY are there SEVEN copies of her book that got read/?!?

  48. okay, I have been reading videogum forever (i mean really, forever! maybe since it first started?) and despite the increasingly wonderful and witty banter that takes place in the comments have never felt the need to chime in.

    but i saw this video and WHAT? i went to school with this girl! and also ke$ha! and why are all of these random and clearly crazy girls from my past growing up to become my girlfriends? it’s just WEIRD.

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