Kurt Galazka

Listen and learn before you talk and point. Seek the truth and tell the truth.

[Kurt Galazka @kurtcoG]

@woodwardsports @DarrenMcCarty4 @calvinjohnsonjr I had the pleasure of meeting Darren and playing a round of golf with him and our friend Rob Watson. Such a nice friendly and down to earth person. A very good golfer too. Hopefully get a chance to win my $10 back some day. 😂

[Woodward Sports Network @woodwardsports]

Darren McCarty & Claude Lemieux relived their famous fight at Joe Louis Arena ❤️

[Darren McCarty @DarrenMcCarty4]

Just heard the news on #ClaudeLemieux
This is extremely sad no matter what feelings from past or present you hold. My thoughts and prayers to his family and friends and people who got to see the person off the ice wasn’t the person on. As I’ve said and will always call it as I see it

“If your on the ICE with Claude Lemieux and your turn your back. YOU Are an IDIOT.
But off the ICE I’ll turn mine”

And please. If you are struggling at all please reach out and talk to someone

Godspeed my friend

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

I honestly do not know what to say other than thank you.
This little essay about Generation Jones has taken on a life of its own. Nearly half a million views, thousands of interactions, and so many kind, thoughtful comments from people sharing their own memories and experiences.

I have gained almost 2,000 followers in a very short time and because of platform restrictions I cannot follow everyone back immediately, but please know I see you, appreciate you and will follow all of you back.

What has moved me most is how wonderful and humble people have been. The stories, conversations, laughter, memories, and even the disagreements have overwhelmingly been thoughtful and kind.

For a brief moment, it felt like people remembering who we used to be with each other. That is pretty special. Thank you for giving your time to my words. It has been incredibly cool to experience.

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

THE WORLD YOU WERE BORN IN NO LONGER EXISTS

[Kurt Galazka @kurtcoG]

@Beno10_MFC D- smallest bowl

[Kurt Galazka @kurtcoG]

@Oceanbreeze473 6th grade , 40 cents at a restaurant lobby. Kools. We had to be slick to get the coins in so the grownups would catch us. 1973-74

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

They put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a litter of Doberman puppies…
and the poor guy had no idea why they were acting so wild. 😂

[🇺🇸Goody2Shoes🇺🇸 @Goody2Shoes46]

“Flooded From Within”

They blame the rain, they curse the sky,
say “no one saw it coming by,”
but cracks don’t form in just one night
they spread in shadows, out of sight.

The roads give out, the dams collapse,
not acts of God but paper gaps,
where signatures were bought and sold,
and warnings died for lines of gold.

The lakes run deep, but deeper still
are backroom deals and quiet will,
where power trades in whispered tones
and builds its wealth on borrowed bones.

They shake your hand, they flash a grin,
while carving losses deep within,
a system dressed in red and blue
that feeds itself and bleeds you too.

You pay the price in rising costs,
in broken trust, in futures lost,
while they explain with polished grace
why nothing changed just time and place.

The flood rolls in, it takes its claim,
but water isn’t all to blame
it’s every cut, ignored repair,
every lie left hanging there.

Michigan didn’t lose its way
it was sold off, day by day,
piece by piece, behind closed doors,
by suited thieves who write the laws.

And now we stand in rising tide,
with nowhere left for truth to hide,
because what’s drowning isn’t land

…it’s what was built by hidden hands.
@Sentinel2NO @HZardoz @PatriotPostGirl @mich_enjoyer @MIGOP @DonnieDetroit19

[Kurt Galazka @kurtcoG]

@NUCLRGOLF Be the club.

[Kurt Galazka @kurtcoG]

@GrossWeather @JimCantore @JenCarfagno Glad to see I’m not the only one calling them events.

[Today In History @historigins]

This is the definition of perfect timing

[Kurt Galazka @kurtcoG]

@stoolpresidente Yes. It was a catch. A lie normalized. IYKYK 30-33 final.

[Kurt Galazka @kurtcoG]

@NFLonPrime Classic era of football rivals should probably be left on classic national TV.

[Beatlesfab4ever @Beatlesfab40]

OTD 08JAN1970 George Harrison attends Olympic Sound Studios in London, where Glyn Johns is mixing the songs ‘Let It Be’ and George’s song ‘ For You Blue’ for the ‘Get Back’ tapes. This was George’s last #Beatles session until the Anthology recordings in the 1990s. #TheBeatles

[Kurt Galazka @kurtcoG]

@AdamSchefter Good thing most fantasy football leagues are over with.

[Kurt Galazka @kurtcoG]

@FunFootballPod If I’m the writer ✍️…I’d keep it a 🤫 but of the 4 logos posted The Rams.

[Kurt Galazka @kurtcoG]

@NatSparbeck @Lions Protect the QB, sack the QB and hope you’re on the winning end of the script. Thats it. Lions OL was okay then got worse. Goff is not the issue.