http://kopkind.org Sniffing the Zeitgeist ... Fri, 13 May 2011 20:16:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://kopkind.org/2011/05/12/kopkinds-administrators-remarks-at-marlboro-college-commencement/#comment-49 Fri, 13 May 2011 20:16:16 +0000 http://kopkind.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-49 Beautiful….thank you John, & btw congrats(!!)

]]> http://kopkind.org/2009/08/03/kopkind-grassroots-film-festival-aug-6-9/#comment-17 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:55:29 +0000 http://kopkind.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/kopkind-grassroots-film-festival-aug-6-9/#comment-17 Andy never had a flag pole in his backyard… as for his doing tricks like putting your bike on the top of anything, I find it really a long stretch, literally. John

]]> http://kopkind.org/2009/08/03/kopkind-grassroots-film-festival-aug-6-9/#comment-8 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:23:03 +0000 http://kopkind.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/kopkind-grassroots-film-festival-aug-6-9/#comment-8 I remember Andy Kopkind this way. He lived diagonally behind me, was several years older than I, and I didn’t know him at all. I was 9 or 10 and had gotten my first two-wheel bike. Sometime during the first day of ownership, it disappeared. We searched. I wept. Finally, we accepted that it was gone–and then, someone looked up at the flagpole in the Kopkind’s backyard. No flag, but my bike was up there, at the top. I guess it was his idea of a joke; no question, Andy thought he was a funny guy. He never apologized, and after that, right through high school, he never met my eyes–although I stared at him meanly quite a lot–and I never forgave him, even when he became “America’s best radical journalist.” I thought of him as the jerk who stole my bicycle.

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