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State Fair Cupcakes

2009-09-01T08:39:00.000-07:00

I held my own judging contest at The Michigan State Fair for the cutest cupcakes and these were the winners!

UK Postcards in Royal Oak

2009-04-06T16:31:00.000-07:00

Over the weekend, I visited Royal Oak with a girlfriend. She had never been there before. We had lunch at Comet Burger, stopped at Astoria Bakery for baklava, and then went to Noir Leather. In the store, she headed to the back and I stopped in the front part because they had a box of old postcards for .96 cents a piece, where I found these lovely postcards of Kew Gardens and Piccadilly Circus, two of my favorite places in London. I had no more than picked them out when my girlfriend came hurrying out of the back saying her "horizons had been more than broadened" and she wanted to leave right then. I never even got to explore the other rooms yet! At least, I got to buy my postcards.

Penguins

2009-03-29T18:14:00.000-07:00

In my quest to try all the British food that I can (as long as it's vegetarian), I tracked down the elusive Penguins. I heard about them on The Royle Family and in Russell Brand's new book, so I was very pleased to find them at Hiller's Market today for 59 cents each. They are a chocolate biscuit by Mcvities. I haven't tried eating them yet. The wrapper is too cute!

St. Patrick's Day Mannequins

2009-03-16T06:44:00.000-07:00

Over the weekend, I met a friend for lunch in Ypsilanti at a restaurant called Beezy's Cafe.They had some really good vegetarian options like a veggie sandwich with avocado and lemon broccoli soup. Down the street, I spotted some mannequins decked out in green for St. Patrick's Day in the windows for Deja Vu Strip Club, so I had to take some pics. There was a lot of reflection and glare, but I think they turned out pretty cool looking.

New Review for Frenzy

2009-03-09T07:48:00.000-07:00

There is a new review for Frenzy at Erotic Readers and Writers Association by Kathleen Bradean and my story Mute Witness was mentioned!

"Tara Alton’s “Mute Witness” is another ultra-short that delivers more heat and humor than most longer works. Just because it’s short doesn’t mean you have to read it fast. Linger over this one, and enjoy how nasty it is."

The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica

2009-02-21T13:54:00.000-08:00

My story "Paranoid Polly" is out in The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica edited by Maxim Jakubowski. I've been in every Mammoth anthology from Volume 3 through 8 now!

My Cupcake Mosaic

2009-02-17T10:10:00.000-08:00

Here is a mosaic of some of the cupcake pictures I have taken. I've got 54 cupcake photos in my flickr cupcake photo set, and I'm pretty sure I've eaten most of those cupcakes. That is a lot of cupcakes!

Cupcake Station

2009-02-11T06:13:00.000-08:00

I visited The Cupcake Station in downtown Ann Arbor for the first time over the weekend, and it is a cupcake haven. The store was quite crowded around one p.m., but there were still lots of cupcakes left. I had a seriously hard time picking out what I wanted. I selected five regular sized cupcake, three mini banana cupcakes, and a heart shaped sugar cookie. It cost me like $20.00.

A New Way to See London

2009-01-26T07:32:00.000-08:00

I've found a new way to see London all the way from Michigan. It's called Gigapan, which creates huge brilliant panoramas with amazing detail. You can see even see people in The London Eye ferris wheel cars, people in cars on the streets and details on Big Ben. Check it out:

Gigapan-South Bank over looking the River Thames

Review Mention

2009-01-08T06:41:00.000-08:00

My story in Frenzy got a mention in a review this month. Here is the excerpt:

"It seems to me that to be interesting as a subject for fiction, fucking needs to contain some element of play as one finds in Tara Alton’s brief but tasty “Mute Witness."

Check out the whole review here at Erotica Revealed, The Month's Reviews. It's the third review down the page.