Nostalgia is a wonderful drug. It’s warm, fuzzy, romantic, and kindles misty-eyed daydreaming, looking on the past through a lens that softly filters even the hard times until they take on a warmer, richer color. Or, if you’re JJ Abrams, one that blots out the screen in blue lens flares of every imaginable shape and size.

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We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We’re not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness – we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week. After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did a little research and found that Massachusetts…