Where it all began...
In May of 2008, an adman named Patrick Scullin is attending a national meeting of independent agencies. He is drinking Abita Beer (um, beer!), and Scullin in frustrated. The demands of helping run a thriving ad agency, managing a creative department, and writing ad campaigns are fine, but there's a hole in his soul.
A piece of his mind has a gerbil running sweaty on a wheel, his little feet kicking up sparks. There is a need for a different kind of creative expression–– something not cooked up to solve a marketing problem, but dreamt up to entertain readers.
It is the age of blogging. Everyone has a blog and almost all have a distinct niche. Scullin does not want to limit his imagination. He's passionate to write whatever he feels like writing. Whatever pops into his head.
Just then, the perfect name pops into his head–– The Lint Screen.
This blog would not have a niche. The Lint Screen would be a corner of the internet–– a blogateria serving an eclectic stew of writings… where Scullin’s thoughts are collected like lint in a clothes dryer and readers’ eyes are the Bounce sheets that come and clean it.
Amazingly, the name The Lint Screen was available (the lint screen union workers of America were obviously asleep at the wheel), and Scullin snatches it up.
On July 22, 2008, The Lint Screen launches. Over the next almost one dozen years, Scullin writes almost 900 posts, most humorous and smart-ass satire, but also on the subjects of advertising, hip replacements (Scullin is an expert on that subject having had four total hip replacements), rants and raves about a variety of subjects, posts on monkeys and blacksmithing squirrels, movie reviews, and the 2012 election. There are even some samples of his literary efforts.
For the past few years, the majority of posts on The Lint Screen have been politically-focused, trying to somehow satirize the absurdity of modern politics. If you are easily offended and believe in your politicians 100%, you may not enjoy the recent work. Graze on posts from earlier days. You're sure to find Lint suitable for your demanding tastes.
And know that SAWDUST: Love is wilder than a circus is 100% politics-free.