A-Sides & Besides

Staying Alive with Mark Pagán

This one goes out to all the older siblings who manage to impart cool taste and life lessons in between all the wedgies and purple nurples. Follow Mark Pagán at Other Men [https://markpagan.substack.com/] on Substack, and be sure to subscribe to the Other Men podcast [https://othermenneedhelp.com/] before the next season launches later this year. Ask a question! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2453196/fan_mail/new] Follow Alexander Scott on BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/wittiestmanalive.bsky.social] @WittiestManAlive Find more shows and upcoming announcements from your town is next. Media on Twitter [https://x.com/yourtownisnext] or BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/yourtownisnext.com] @yourtownisnext Subscribe to the your town is next. Substack [https://yourtownisnext.substack.com/] for updates and essays, straight to your mailbox

From The Choirgirl Hotel, with Amber Drea

Our scrappy little show welcomes its first official guest storyteller, Amber Drea [https://amberdrea.com/]! A mainstay of the West Chicago comedy scene, Amber is a writer, performer, record collector, musician, mom, and all-around Renaissance Woman.  This week's subject is the work of Tori Amos, a world renowned award-winning singer/songwriter who had that one song about, well, y'know [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53uqoLpnuGA]. It wasn't subtle. All love and respect to a native Baltimorean [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E7_L0lUqlk].  Your humble narrator, Alexander Scott, was recently featured on an episode of the PBS showcase Stories From The Stage! See Alex's breakthrough performance [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3_o9X7tpNo] on their YouTube Channel, as well as a brief interview about this hideous man [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhKH0kTa0Uc]'s creative process. Please like and leave a comment! To learn more about Alex's Stories From The Stage coach Michelle Darby and view her educational offerings, visit the StoryCraft website [https://www.storycraftclass.com/about]. Ask a question! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2453196/fan_mail/new] Follow Alexander Scott on BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/wittiestmanalive.bsky.social] @WittiestManAlive Find more shows and upcoming announcements from your town is next. Media on Twitter [https://x.com/yourtownisnext] or BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/yourtownisnext.com] @yourtownisnext Subscribe to the your town is next. Substack [https://yourtownisnext.substack.com/] for updates and essays, straight to your mailbox

Carry The Zero

A meditation on saying goodbye to loved ones, to expectations, and to the past.  This week's story is inspired by the work of influential Pacific Northwest band Built To Spill [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ7MFTBjJS8]. If you'd like to learn more about their work, you can read all about it in The Holy Bible.  Please tune in to PBS's Stories From The Stage on March 10th to see Alexander Scott perform as part of the episode "Close Calls!" [https://worldchannel.org/episode/stories-from-the-stage-close-calls/]  Long live Fellini. Ask a question! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2453196/fan_mail/new] Follow Alexander Scott on BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/wittiestmanalive.bsky.social] @WittiestManAlive Find more shows and upcoming announcements from your town is next. Media on Twitter [https://x.com/yourtownisnext] or BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/yourtownisnext.com] @yourtownisnext Subscribe to the your town is next. Substack [https://yourtownisnext.substack.com/] for updates and essays, straight to your mailbox

Closing Time

In which we begin in earnest by being entirely too earnest.  And no, it's not the one by Semisonic. It's the one [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKFCp9P0cFc] by Tom Waits. Get it right or pay the price. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-SE96Q9dDU]  Ask a question! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2453196/fan_mail/new] Follow Alexander Scott on BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/wittiestmanalive.bsky.social] @WittiestManAlive Find more shows and upcoming announcements from your town is next. Media on Twitter [https://x.com/yourtownisnext] or BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/yourtownisnext.com] @yourtownisnext Subscribe to the your town is next. Substack [https://yourtownisnext.substack.com/] for updates and essays, straight to your mailbox

Test Pressing

Enjoy an informal, chatty introduction to this, yet another log on the pile of obscure podcasts keeping the internet furnaces burning. Ask a question! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2453196/fan_mail/new] Follow Alexander Scott on BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/wittiestmanalive.bsky.social] @WittiestManAlive Find more shows and upcoming announcements from your town is next. Media on Twitter [https://x.com/yourtownisnext] or BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/yourtownisnext.com] @yourtownisnext Subscribe to the your town is next. Substack [https://yourtownisnext.substack.com/] for updates and essays, straight to your mailbox