The Spectre of Future History

This week in THE LEDGER: after a meandering setup about content for old people, a look at Buzzfeed’s crazy new web show, Future History

Have you ever had that feeling when some goddamn tweet pricks the edge of your consciousness, and the pang just hangs there, like a subcutaneous stinger, pestering you for days? I speak not of the latest Kanye witticism, but of this choice specimen, which has been needling me, gnat-like, since first poking my feed:

Ouch, that stings. Or as the kids like to say, It me.

As Rian diagnoses it, the onset of this affliction, in which one develops an inexplicable interest in historical content, begins circa The Big 4-0. In my case, some insidious microbe entered my bloodstream around this age, and immediately began eradicating all prior hobbies and interests. My inner child — once capable of contemplating ambitious pastimes like “brushing up on my French” or “maybe learning to play the mandolin” — died a sad quiet death. In its place, I was bequeathed a…