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[Latarsha Lant]

Pouranother gallon into the bucket of our national grief, David Berman is gone. The poet and front man of the Silver Jews was fifty-two. The phrase national grief is Berman-esque, though municipal grief or federal grief would be even better. I was in awe of him, and like so many people today, I am crushed.

I saw him perform only once, with the Silver Jews at Bowery Ballroom in 2008. He was slim and intense and did not banter. He was like a downed power line; he writhed around giving off sparks. I felt, watching him, very close to doom. He carried that into the room with him.

A worldwide nervous breakdown is a good description of these past few years. And now the person who was perhaps most able to make sense of it is dead. I hope I have the fortitude not to take even this too seriously.

Wes Del Val likes good books, knows interesting people, and asks great questions. These three things come together brilliantly in this new interview series for the Book/Shop Journal. First up is this bookish back-and-forth between Wes and Tosh Berman, a writer who grew up in the epicenter of 1960s SoCal bohemia and who has carved out a sprightly world of his own in the worlds of books and music.

Diane Hullet: That is so well put, Bradley, I, I found the, the thread of the story to be so moving and Jack happens to be a good storyteller, as are you and the team that put this, put this story together and thank you.

But he convinced me, and especially, you know, he had gone through a second bout of of seizures. Well, he, he had a. To say he was ill for 25 years might be a little bit of a stretch because he had his first bout and then he had a reprieve for, you know, more than a decade. But always kind of wondering what was happening cuz this was after surgery and after other kinds of treatment.

And so we just event over time, we just decided to start and just hang out and rec record. And he was a gr like you said, he is a great storyteller. So he, I would turn the camera on and he would start telling stories about how, what he was thinking about or what he, where, you know, Where he wanted to go that day, or about his parents or about any number of things.

And that got built up over a six year period and it enabled me to see, and to capture this, this trajectory of how do you have a truly like enlightened, compassionate experience in the final ch how do you write, basically, how do you write. Your life story, especially the the final chapters.

And I think another reason that we kind of got lucky in terms of the filmmaking is that Jack was so good at having friends. You know, he was such a, he just, he was a good friend to so many people and everyone rallied around him. And, and it was a group of like articulate, loving people. So, And kind of all of the same you know, open spirit of dialogue.

Joseph Tainter believes that societies become increasingly complex as they solve problems and address challenges. Modern civilization has solved many problems with electric power and the internet. Those systems require immense resources and coordination to function. Societies collapse when they can no longer sustain this increase in complexity. This week, society has collapsed in Houston.

Have we truly contemplated the implications of this shift? The pursuit of an all-electric society overlooks the inherent vulnerabilities of our power infrastructure, leaving us exposed to the very disruptions we seek to avoid.

As of early 2024, solar and wind make up about 18% of U.S. electricity. These sources produce direct current (DC) that must be converted to alternating current (AC) to be used in the grid, requiring transformers often delayed by supply chain issues.

Solar and wind power have lower reliability compared to conventional plants, needing backup power or storage to maintain supply during low production periods. Despite the celebration of increased renewable energy use, excess generation during peak times can lead to wasted energy to prevent grid overload.

The reliance on an all-electric grid, despite its theoretical appeal, has serious shortcomings in real-world scenarios. The fragility of our current infrastructure becomes glaringly apparent during such outages, raising questions about our preparedness and resilience.

I believe that a great simplification is coming that will involve a transition to less complex, more localized, and sustainable ways of living. That shift will be driven by the realities of energy limits, environmental degradation, economic instability, and the need for more resilient and adaptive human systems.

There are a few dichotomies emerging from the current predicament, such as global vs. local, and simple vs. complex is one of them. Funny, I was just listening to a podcast about the Trump assassination attempt where the point was being made that institutions, schemes, organization have become dysfunctional due to complexity.

Some very good points. Here in UK we are moving (being moved) towards all electric households. Heat pumps instead of gas heating, electric stoves and EVs. Even gas heating that most people have now is controlled by electrical systems, so they will not run if the electricity supply is off. Another problem is that our old telephone system which has an integral electrical supply, separate from mains electricity, is being shut down and replaced with internet phones. So no emergency phone calls possible in a black out. In a way it is not complexity at all. It is simplicity. Everything depends on one thing. A continuous and reliable electricity supply.

I was thinking the other day working on a electric septic pump ,the main danger with a prolonged outage would be lack of sewage treatment.I had a relative who suffered a 5/7 day outage and I remember the neighborhood sewage pumps quit working.

I know in the old days this would cause typus outbreaks etc,

A very brief explanation of what this is: The zine came about after Chris Dodge asked me to help compile a festschrift zine in Sandy Berman's honor. After everything he'd been through in the past several months, Chris thought he needed something to cheer him up. The idea was that it would presented to him at ALA Annual in New Orleans. This required that all of the contributors keep it secret from him, and they did. It went over really well. Sandy certainly seemed to appreciate it, and everyone else who's read it appears to have as well. I compiled it by sending out mass emails to various listservs: namely the SRRT Action Council list, the PLG list, the gay-libn list, and the anarchist librarians list. That got me a handful of contributions. (If I remember correctly, Steve, Barbara, Suzanne, Jessamyn, Karen Eliot, and Dorchester Dog Hip were the only ones who sent anything right off. Good for them.) In a panic, I started bombarding people with individual emails asking them - no, begging them - to contribute. Luckily, it all worked out in the end, and this site is proof. Fun facts about Kiss My Filing Indicators: While this is issue #1, it isn't actually the first issue. KMFI #0 was a thing (I'm hesitant to call it a "zine") that I did for a cataloging class in August 1998. It was four half-size pages of sarcastic discussion about cataloging Internet resources with a few Lynda Barry cartoons thrown in for good measure. If you don't already have a copy, you're not going to get one from me; the actual flats are long gone, and the two copies I kept for myself got mangled in my apartment somehow. Don't worry, you didn't miss much. There were three factual errors in it: one that got corrected before printing, and two that didn't. Dorchester Dog Hip initially wrote that Sandy had had a quadruple bypass; he had a quintuple. (In the print version, "quintuple" is in a different font from the rest of the text because it got pasted over "quadruple" at the last moment. Tee hee.) Peter McDonald claimed to have initially met Sandy at a meeting to form PLG in 1989. Unfortunately, neither he nor Sandy were actually there. It's still a good story, though. My mistake is nowhere near that interesting: I merely described myself as an "Illinoisian", which apparently is not the official term used to describe an Illinois native. I guess it's "Illinoisan", though I'm not entirely sure. (I base this assumption on having seen a billboard encouraging "Illinoisans" to become organ donors; I'm assuming that the state government knows how to spell the word correctly, but maybe not.) Enough babbling for now: on to the zine. P.S. Address any and all criticisms to ka...@dangpow.com. Thanks. P.P.S. I created a guestbook for this site out of boredom. You can sign it if you like. You don't have to, though.

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