jameybash

a personal blog for Jamey Alea

April 14, 2024

My Burnout Life: An Update

It’s been a long while since the last time I’ve written anything to post here. It crosses my mind occasionally how empty my website has become since I quit tech,...

August 18, 2023

A Shift in Priorities: Book Arts & Fire Ecology Press!

It has been a while since I’ve updated here, but actually I’ve gone through some serious changes in my life over the past couple of months. I had been struggling...

July 6, 2023

Conf Report: DevConf Cape Town & Pretoria

This past May, I was absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to travel to South Africa for the first time to speak at DevConf! DevConf is a conference that I’ve...

June 15, 2023

ZineFest 2023 & the Post-Covid AU

This past weekend was ZineFest 2023, co-hosted downtown by Book Arts and Just Buffalo Literary Center, and I’m very pleased to report that it was a great success! This was...

April 29, 2023

Embracing Felix – My Experience at Giovanni: The Last Supper

Last month, I attended a Vampire: the Masquerade blockbuster LARP on a whole different scale than any I’d done before. Giovanni: The Last Supper, hosted by Orion Games, was a...

April 12, 2023

I Love Cassettes

Let’s talk about cassette tapes. A friend of mine recently made a prediction about cassettes becoming the next hipster thing, like vinyl has become. That’s an interesting thought! I’m afraid...

January 24, 2023

Anatomy of a LARP Prop

Recently, I shared my experience at Saturnalia, a blockbuster LARP that was held this past November in New Orleans, but one aspect of it that I wanted to talk about...

January 8, 2023

On Trauma & Resilience in Buffalo, NY

2022 was a hard year. It was hard on me personally. I lost several friends this year, including two of my best friends, to sickness and death. I dealt with...

December 16, 2022

Fangs of New Orleans: Saturnalia LARP

It had been a few years since I’d done a blockbuster LARP, but that changed in November when my girlfriend and I traveled down to New Orleans to participate in...

September 21, 2022

How I Became A Race Car Driver

It’s always an exciting day when you can cross one off the bucket list, and that happened to me recently when I made my ~racing debut~ earlier this month at...

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