Tim Hatch: Educator. Author. Tired.

Journal

Looking at Game of Thrones (Season Three)

After stealing everything that wasn’t nailed down from a rich jerk, Magic Dragon Jesus Lady and her cult have some money to spend.  Her most trusted advisor, Sir Lusty Pants, wants her to buy a ship and cross the ocean where all the people will welcome her as their rightful ruler.  This would be adorable...

Looking at Game of Thrones (Season Two)

Once again, with only love in my heart, and a #spoiler warning that seems at least six years past necessary, here’s a Game of Thrones season two wrap up.  As the seasons get more involved, the summaries get longer: Snow idiot is still dead, because dead is serious business in this show.  Stupidity seems to...

Looking at Game of Thrones (Season One)

For the record, I write the following with 100% love in my heart.  Game of Thrones Season 1 wrap up (#spoilers): There’s a family of goodhearted idiots who live in the snow and the patriarch, whose name you honestly don’t need to commit to memory (so we’ll just call him “snow idiot”), is best friends...

Yet Another URL

Before I say anything else, let me get this part out of the way: I WAS WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING. Holy shit, I honestly thought I understood politics, but apparently I didn’t know a damn thing about politics. Apparently almost none of us did. Worse, apparently only a few people actually understood what 21st-century American politics...

America, 2036

In my vision I’m sitting on my couch, watching television with a faceless child, one of several in my ever-growing tribe.  We’re watching another mediocre clip show called I Love the Twentyteens.  Each episode is apparently broken down by year and this one is 2016. It starts off with various b-list celebrities reminiscing about the...

Thesis Stress…

…and other good problems.  I don’t think 2016 was even two weeks old when I got the news that my good friend Gregory Toliver had died.  Gregory was another complicated genius I was fortunate enough to know, and with his passing I’ve come to realize how insanely lucky I am to have known so many...