Welcome!

You’ve stumbled upon Typewriter Monkey Task Force: a blog about faith, writing, video games, literature, television, movies, life, the universe, and everything. I worked on it for more than five years, and though TMTF has ended, hundreds of posts remain. I’m sure the blog is a bit daunting to navigate.

Don’t panic. I’m here to help.

If you haven’t already been there, this blog’s About page is a great place to start!

Some of TMTF’s posts are better than others. Below are links to a few of this blog’s best posts, separated by broad categories:

• I reflected upon my Christian faith, writing posts about the silence of God and my own struggles to believe.
• I discussed writing and storytelling, from the importance of diverse representation to why Christians are often the bad guys.
• I worked on my own story project, from its crushing failure to its hopeful resurrection.
• I geeked out over video games, wondering whether games can be art and why video game movies suck.
• I wrote about movies and television, learning life lessons from Doctor Who and Steven Universe.
• I explored the wide world of literature, from great opening lines to the lesson Dante’s Inferno taught me about hopeless crushes.
• I remembered some of my own adventures, from That Time I Was Trapped in a Stage Kiss to That Time I Held a Severed Human Arm.
• I got a little personal, sharing personal struggles such as depression and low self-esteem.
• I rambled about random nonsense, from sandwiches to Internet error messages.
• I made a bunch of top ten lists, listing everything from dragons to detectives, because I couldn’t help myself.

While writing this blog, I also invented a holiday, Be Nice to Someone on the Internet Day, which is celebrated every year on March 4 by approximately one or two people.

I also wrote some fiction. (It’s a bad habit.) My best short stories are probably “A Portrait of the Artist as a Performing Monkey” and its sequel, “Romeo and Juliet and Dave.” I’m fairly satisfied with “The Mark of Cain” and “The Field Where No Flowers Grow,” too.

Thanks for visiting Typewriter Monkey Task Force. Please enjoy responsibly!