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Please try to figure out a way to make this your own phone number (with the appropriate area code, natch!) so that you can put it on business cards and give it to girls at parties.

Reasons:
1. You'll never forget it.
2. No one else will ever forget it.
3. You'll make an impression!
4. If you ever wear sunglasses like this, your phone number will be just wacky enough to match!
5. Because this episode of "Product Displacement" was just weird enough that you want to pay homage to it forever.

Operators are standing by!*

(*Not really. Please don't.)

Yeah, I know, it's not the internet, it's TV, but soon enough it will be on the internet from the TV so I feel that I can talk about it here on this blog on My Damn Channel on the internet, and the thing I am talking about is Game of Desks, the Game of Thrones parody that'll premiere on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight.  It looks like they're taking one of my favorite shows (Game of Thrones) and parodying it somehow!  Should be funny, especially since the man above, A.D. Miles, is head writer on Fallon.  A.D. wrote my favorite web series of all-time, Horrible People, which you can watch right now on My Damn Channel to tide you over until tonight.  Sounds like a plan, right?

Greetings Nerds, let's get on with it already! This week in Nerd News:

-I know, I know, I talk about Skyrim a lot. But, ERMAHGERD NEW SKYRIM DLC!  Scheduled for release on December 7^th, Dragonborn is Skyrim’s third expansion to come out this year.  From the looks of it, every Dovahkiin’s wish of being able to ride dragons will finally be granted. However, no one knows whether or not you'll be able to actually control the dragon or if it will just be a cut scene between traveling. I’ll be sure to give you all the information once it finally hits Xbox Live.

-For most Whovians, the first five episodes of Series 7 was hardly enough for us, so we scrounge for any piece of news we get our hands on until the Christmas special.  Luckily, we've got our hands on some exciting info:  Neil Gaiman is back on to write another episode about the Cybermen!  

-Saga issue #7 comes out next Wednesday after a long two month hiatus! If you aren't following Brian K. Vaughan's newest romp, definitely be sure to check this one out. Like I said, it's only seven issues in and has been collected into a trade paperback form, so you really have no reason not to. While I was at NYCC I was able to attend the Saga Panel and they revealed the covers for the next few issues. And let me tell you, they were goregous!*

That's all I have for you guys this week!  Be sure to check out Kristina's Answerly video later today for more nerdiness.
-Brandon
@ReasonToWrite


*with tons of robot sex and gore, Saga is very NSFW.  Read at your own risk!

Dan Grgas, thanks for sitting down with me today.

No problem.

You play the Mad Tagger in the newest episode of Status Kill. Where do you draw your inspiration from as an actor?

I draw my inspiration from life, Chris. It could be anything. A bird, a tree, a song. As long as there is vibrancy and some sense of immediacy present in what surrounds me I feel I can channel it down into my being, change it, and then channel it back out into my craft.

Do you yourself find irritation in being tagged in photos?

Not really. I like when I get tagged in a picture. Sometimes they can be a bit unflattering, but even then it's usually the sign of a good or funny time I had with friends.

What's it like working with filmmaker/friend Jesse Cowell?

Jesse is a great guy and I'm lucky to consider him a friend, but I had never worked with him and I'm happy to say he was awesome on set. I hate when you're acting and you're sitting around with your thumb up your ass not doing anything because the director is dicking around. But Jess had everything worked out and it was a real fun, effective, easy shoot - for me at least.

Please share with us your most embarrassing tagged photo and an explanation of why?

A picture of me with my front two teeth cracked in half. Why? I had too much to drink.

What's your favorite My Damn Channel series?

Other than Status Kill, you mean? Ha ha ha ha!! I am very partial to Horrible People. It's such a well-written spoof, and it's unapologetic in how dumb and crazy the comedy is in it. To do such a killer send-up I think the comedy's got to tap into that part of your brain that doesn't need to think in order to laugh at it. To laugh straight from the gut. I love that stuff. Poop! Shit! Dick! LOL.

How did you get so lucky to have a friend like Chris Donahue?

Chris owns about three t-shirts and one of them is of a band we both happen to like. I said, "that band rules" and he said, "I agree" and then we started to talk about other stuff and next thing you know I have a good friend in Chippy Diesel.

Thanks, Dan.

F--k off, Chip.

Oh. Oh, dear. Oh, dear, Fred Willard.

You were arrested last night for what the internet is calling colloquially, "pulling a Pee-Wee."

And this morning on Twitter more people are talking about you than the Emmy nominations.

But, you know what, Fred Willard? It's okay.

Maybe you didn't want to get a virus on your computer by searching for, um, adult-oriented fare. Maybe you didn't want to get your couch dirty. Maybe you were already out running errands when, uh, the need to do uh, "something else" struck. And maybe you just like doing things the old-fashioned way, and who can fault a 78-year-old man for kicking it old school style?

We think you're going to come out of this one just fine. And I've got hand sanitizer on my desk for the next time you want to come into the office to say "hey."

Yesterday was the first official day of summer, and it was hot. It was "Do The Right Thing" hot. It was ice cream shortage hot. It was "Mark Malkoff's actually giving ice cream away in Washington Square Park so let's go" hot.

Our interns went to support Mark who was giving away Nestle Drumsticks as part of their "Raise A Cone" campaign.

You can see more pictures of the day on our Tumblr, but you can see Mark Malkoff today on My Damn Channel LIVE at 4pm ET! We've got some movies queued up for him to watch! I'm sure he'll be super into that!

Walter Matthau was the man.

He was half of The Odd Couple. He was curmudgeonly before you even knew how to spell "curmudgeon." He was Dennis The Menace's neighbor and basically your all-around-reliable-grandpa type.

Admit it: you kind of wished your Grandpa was Walter Matthau. That's why you watched all of those Grumpy Old Men movies over and over again, isn't it?

And thanks to Modern Primate, you don't have to BE a grandpa to dress like one. Be comfortable as a classic curmudgeon: Get. That. Look.