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Originally from Northern California, Grace lives in New York and works as an Online Editor. If she weren't doing that, she'd like to be a hairdresser, sociologist, or David Bowie.

You can count on her for style advice, indie rock factoids, and movie recommendations. Friends call her taste "obscure," which she's decided to take as a compliment. Her favorite concert ever was a benefit show in which surprise guest Debbie Harry sang "Heart of Glass." Sweet!

Currently reading: Rats by Robert Sullivan
Currently listening to: Coconut Records, Neko Case, Andrew Bird, M. Ward

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A displaced New Yorker raised in Indiana (of all places) by a Brooklyn dad and Jersey mom, Online Editor Rothman was born chock full of opinions. So it only made sense that she'd grow up to be a music critic, TV critic and general entertainment journalist. The result? An addiction to swag and laminates and some fun stories to tell.

She argued with Prince over apples and oranges, sat on George Clinton's lap, danced with David Byrne, dressed up as a fuzzy animal onstage with the Flaming Lips, had a coherent conversation with James Brown, almost squashed Kate Hudson's dog and got quoted on the back of a Spinal Tap DVD.

Currently listening to: "Modern Guilt" by Beck.

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Randi is a New Yorker through and through. Born, raised and residing there now, she has a passion for sample sale shopping, delicious Mexican restaurants and the Superbowl Champions and all-around best team ever, the New York Giants. (And yes, they will do it once again in ?09!)

Her dream of becoming a rock star was shattered when she only took second place in a ?New York Idol? singing contest on a local morning show. Left to wallow in her failure, she began writing and has been doing so ever since.

She enjoys spending time with her husband, a self-professed fantasy football legend (who now also serves as her chauffeur since they work together) and adorable baby boy, who thankfully now sleeps through the entire night. And every now and then, she still can be heard belting out a Duffy tune in the shower. After all, some dreams never die!

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Peter's led a pretty crazy life. He's been in the movie business, worked in music and TV, ventured into fashion and landed on the Internet where he rode the bubble and lived to tell about it. Between it all he stepped on Robert Redford's foot, pulled Linda Evans out of the toilet, and almost chucked out a prototype for what would become a $200,000,000+ charity ? the original penciled illustration of Paul Newman?s mug that Peter thought was a fan's rendering the star wanted to trash.

Dabbling in sports too, Peter worked for hockey great Phil Esposito and co-wrote The Everything Golf Book. His business parables book proposal Courage and Tradition, (think Monty Python's Spamalot meets mega business guru Stephen Covey), is currently making the rounds. Peter's a screenwriter too. Who would have thought?

Here at Smiley Central, Peter is a Senior Copywriter, conceptualizing ads for our entire line of products. He writes lots of scripts for My Fun Cards, and provides several voices for our smileys and eCards. He revels in posting lots of fun, wacky stuff. Movie stars look out!



Born in the backwoods of northern New York, just a stone's throw from the Canadian border, Patrick is our resident Creative Director and Snack Guru. His smiley looks like a youngish David Letterman, a fact he points to with pride.

Having once saved an entire Girl Scout Troop from a rabid grizzly bear (some witnesses described the animal as "a large knapsack filled with dirty laundry"), Patrick can be counted on to save you from the daily doldrums with links to the funniest, wackiest sites and videos online. Rather impressive considering he doesn't know what "doldrums" means.

Currently reading: Candyfreak
Currently listening to: James - Hey Ma
Currently eating: Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream

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Scott works in the FunWebProducts department and gets to create a lot of new and exciting web pages. He is a geek by day and a geek by night. Scott loves to play video games and passes the time by surfing the Internet.

Whatever the topic, it isn't cool unless it involves zeroes and ones. There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

As Scott would say: "Way to geek it up!"

Currently reading: Freeple.com
Currently drinking: Red Bull
Currently playing: Paris Hilton Flash Game
Currently craving: Nintendo Wii

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Live by the font. Die by the font.

Designer Kelli Novotny has her finger on the pulse of celebrity gossip as well as the wacom tablet. Recently becoming a first time mom has opened up her interests to family life and how to handle as much of it online as possible. New gadgets, tips and sites always welcome.

An avid dog lover, Kelli spends her days with Wilson the Goldendoodle ? who is loveable but utterly defiant. While not designing or blogging on the buzz, Kelli can be found putting her new Canon Digital SLR to good use...because babies and dogs move fast.


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Originally from Joisey where everyone's either a mobster or a crooked politician (thanks to the Sopranos). If you ask him which exit, he'll ask you from which highway. An avid hockey fan and a HUGE Star Wars geek.

Keith's a father of 2 boys and to this day can't figure out if he's there so they have someone to play with or they're here so he has someone to play with. Either way they have fun. He's training them to be good Jedis and not turn to the Dark Side but somehow they keep ending up over there.

Keith is also a repository of useless movie quotes. For any situation in life, there's a movie quote for it that will be used. Most quoted movies: Office Space, Super Troopers, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Currently Reading: Where the Wild Things Are
Currently Drinking: Mountain Dew from an IV
Still Listening to: Dropkick Murphys - Live on St. Patrick's Day
Currently Waiting: For Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull May 22, 2008
Currently Trying: To find the perfect Christmas gifts for his wife and kids.
Still Hoping: To win the lottery

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Bill, a senior product manager in our FunWebProducts group, is a fountain of useless knowledge. Jokingly referred to as ?WikiBill? by his co-workers, he?s quick to share obscure tidbits of trivia such as how monkeys peel bananas (they pinch the tip of the end without the stem), which 80?s B-movies the mother/father/ brother/sister of the latest red carpet celebrity was in, or how many times the word ?who? is uttered in the animated classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Clearly, we need to start giving Bill more to do.

Bill has two kids that he adores. Being a big kid himself, it?s believed he became a father to have an excuse to play video games and watch Saturday morning cartoons deep into his 30s.

In any case, Bill is always eager to share his useless knowledge as well as a parenting story, tip, or not-so-occasional blunder.

Currently reading: Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Currently listening to: We Were Here by Joshua Radin


Drew and Erin are married and work at the same company, which means they spend ALL of their time together. They don't seem to mind, especially since it gives them plenty of time away from their evil genius cat, Cali, who is bent on world domination.

  Both Erin and Drew are natives of Pennsylvania, but are currently living in their fourth city in five years. They have moved from South Orange, NJ, to Austin, TX, to Las Vegas, NV, and finally to their current residence of White Plains, NY. Future cities of residence include Sydney, Australia, Cape Town, South Africa, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Bismarck, North Dakota.

When not working, the happy couple spends their time sewing, obsessing over sports, reading magazines for free at Barnes and Noble and fighting over their one Nintendo Wii controller.



Hola amigos! A suburban New York native, Joe serves as an Online Editor, Entertainment Buzz Specialist and Fantasy Sports Expert around these parts.

After graduating from Harvard in 1993, Joe was tempted into following Henry David Thoreau into the woods - but discovered, much to his chagrin, that there were condos there. Returning to society, he was eventually forced to abandon his lifelong dream of being the starting third baseman for the New York Mets - despite bringing his glove to every game at Shea and not getting a grounder or foul ball for 10 consecutive years.

That's why he landed here at Smiley Central. A frustrated novelist and filmmaker in his spare time, Joe can always be counted on to bring you the latest grotesque absurdities from the wild, woolly and wonderful world of entertainment.

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As the last true Renaissance man (complete with tights), Kevin can talk your ear off about the latest tech gadget just as easily as he can about a killer snickerdoodle recipe he found online. Unfortunately for you, his sieve-like brain will forget the whole conversation and he'll try to start it again the next day.

He's on a quest to find the perfect gizmo that will merge his domestic hobbies with his techno-mindset, and compensate for his Momento-esque memory loss. In the meantime, he's more than happy to ridicule everything that falls short of this goal.

Speaking of ridicule, keep an eye out as Kevin shares his experiences with his first foray into the world of social networking, a land of "glitter" and "bling" which he cannot begin to comprehend, but will happily make fun of.

Currently reading: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
Currently listening to: TWiT podcasts
Currently cooking: Berry Crisps

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Jim is not one to go with the crowd, so his love for extreme sports is not a huge surprise. He keeps his mountain bike in the trunk of his car, "just in case I can sneak a ride in," and a mid-summer, pre-6am trail ride before work is common.

(Smell? What smell...) SmileyCentral.com

Jim's long-term dream is to run an extreme sports web site of his own and travel the world taking pix and video of extreme athletes. His family needs him to mow the lawn.

Look for Jim to bring you his thoughts and feelings (from the Smiley office) about the new and ever-expanding world of extreme sports... and why they should be a part of your life, too.

Currently reading: Green Eggs and Ham (Hey! I have kids...)
Currently listening to: iPod is on shuffle
Currently eating: Dirt. (I crash on my bike. A lot.)


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Casey loves to dish the latest on celebrity fashion, web trends, and Zwinky.com - where she is the legendary "Miss Casey", adored by thousands and thousands of Zwinksters who look to her for guidance and new outfits to fashionably pimp their avatars.

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