Today we say goodbye to The Single Girl’s Guide to Meeting European Men & we say hello to Lolita. We’ll meet at the beginning of next month to discus that book but first let us remember the good times we’ve had so far.
Anchor Management gave us his impression of the book from his European Man perspective.
Godsauce pondered the anthropological aspects of the book.
Lizzing examined the impact of the book as a personal calling card.
Lil’ Bobby Tables brought up some interesting points about Katherine and her personality.
You can also read my take on Katherine’s appearance on Tosh.0 and my interview with her, where we talk about her book and being a viral star.
So after a month and a half of reading The Single Girl’s Guide to Meeting European Men, what did we learn? I think the general consensus is that this book IS Katherine. Whether you think this is a good thing or not depends entirely on your perspective. There is no doubt she is a strong personality but for some reason people seem to either love or hate her. To paraphrase Dean Fleischer-Camp, the co-creator of Marcell the Shell; she IS Lana Del Rey. Anyways, I love her and will probably always love her and you can’t change that, dad. If you are like me you can keep up with her adventures on Twitter, Facebook and her website.
We do have one last treat before we move on to the next book. Katherine was kind enough to give me a signed copy of her book to give to one of our readers. Yes, YOU could his special item. Here’s to do it:
Comment in this post. Give us a giving a flirting or dating tip, post a snappy gif of photoshop, give us your take, etc. (The winner will be chosen at random.) Good Luck!
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My most effective pick-up line: “So….do YOU like Beowulf?”
(people love Beowulf)
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I’ve never successfully picked anyone up before (hence why I’m trying to win this book, duh), but I imagine you could walk over to someone while pretending to be blind, and just keep bumping into them. Apologize profusely every time but keep doing it. After four or five collisions it’s like “well, we’ve already got past all the awkward physical stuff, we might as well go grab a drink”. Feel free to come clean to them about the blind thing on your third date, to make the sex easier.
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When meeting a potential partner at a cuddle party be sure to mention how pants are the oppossite of dream catchers.
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I thought we all just pretend we’re Ryan Gosling?
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“Have you ever fucked a somewhat prominent commenter on a medium-sized pop culture website? You have? Did you enjoy it? Just okay but nothing special? Why, yes, I have heard of Huckabeast! Well, it was really nice meeting you, but I’m going to head home and tweet about this.”
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I woo the ladies with my intellect. I am alone.
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what I take from this is that KCC is the female version of this, right?
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In seventh grade I thought it would be really romantic to ask out a girl in my math class in front of the whole class. I had never talked to her before. That was the moment I learned that I was wildly unpopular, and believe me, getting turned down for a date in front of your math class does not to alleviate the scorn.
I still like you, Sarah Thomasky!
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If I win this book, I promise I will wrap it in very nice wrapping paper from the Yale British Museum of Art and give it to my wife for our tenth wedding anniversary, and then I will film her reaction and post it here.
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My best seduction tip: send them gifs like this every day until they crack:
That and peacock your little heart out.
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(I like to let Jon Hamm do my heavy lifting)
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