Notes Of A Tourist On Planet Earth: Being a Collection of Hilarious Essays, poems and Ponderings About the Human Species

Notes of a Tourist on Planet Earth Some questions haunt humanity on a daily basis, or at the very least make it scratch its collective head. Why shouldn't one wear black? Who is the emitting the most greenhouse gases? What hybrids could result from genetic engineering, and what kind of secret life does ethanol have? How can one sound halfway intelligent at an art gallery or survive a poetry open mic? Most importantly of all, who do you have to please to get a table at that restaurant everybody's talking it? In NOTES OF A TOURIST ON PLANET EARTH, seasoned traveler and award-winning writer J.D. Smith answers these questions and more, many more, in stories, lists, poems and essays, along with pieces that no category could hope to contain without undergoing elective surgery. Based on research in world capitals, the bars of eight time zones and a distressing number of degree programs, this collection combines wit and erudition in ways that will make Woody Allen and Roy Blount, Jr. hear footsteps—and have Rachael Ray taking a long, hard look at herself.

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Notes Of A Tourist On Planet Earth: Being a Collection of Hilarious Essays, poems and Ponderings About the Human Species

Notes of a Tourist on Planet Earth Some questions haunt humanity on a daily basis, or at the very least make it scratch its collective head. Why shouldn't one wear black? Who is the emitting the most greenhouse gases? What hybrids could result from genetic engineering, and what kind of secret life does ethanol have? How can one sound halfway intelligent at an art gallery or survive a poetry open mic? Most importantly of all, who do you have to please to get a table at that restaurant everybody's talking it? In NOTES OF A TOURIST ON PLANET EARTH, seasoned traveler and award-winning writer J.D. Smith answers these questions and more, many more, in stories, lists, poems and essays, along with pieces that no category could hope to contain without undergoing elective surgery. Based on research in world capitals, the bars of eight time zones and a distressing number of degree programs, this collection combines wit and erudition in ways that will make Woody Allen and Roy Blount, Jr. hear footsteps—and have Rachael Ray taking a long, hard look at herself.

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Notes Of A Tourist On Planet Earth: Being a Collection of Hilarious Essays, poems and Ponderings About the Human Species

Notes Of A Tourist On Planet Earth: Being a Collection of Hilarious Essays, poems and Ponderings About the Human Species

by J.D. Smith
Notes Of A Tourist On Planet Earth: Being a Collection of Hilarious Essays, poems and Ponderings About the Human Species

Notes Of A Tourist On Planet Earth: Being a Collection of Hilarious Essays, poems and Ponderings About the Human Species

by J.D. Smith

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Notes of a Tourist on Planet Earth Some questions haunt humanity on a daily basis, or at the very least make it scratch its collective head. Why shouldn't one wear black? Who is the emitting the most greenhouse gases? What hybrids could result from genetic engineering, and what kind of secret life does ethanol have? How can one sound halfway intelligent at an art gallery or survive a poetry open mic? Most importantly of all, who do you have to please to get a table at that restaurant everybody's talking it? In NOTES OF A TOURIST ON PLANET EARTH, seasoned traveler and award-winning writer J.D. Smith answers these questions and more, many more, in stories, lists, poems and essays, along with pieces that no category could hope to contain without undergoing elective surgery. Based on research in world capitals, the bars of eight time zones and a distressing number of degree programs, this collection combines wit and erudition in ways that will make Woody Allen and Roy Blount, Jr. hear footsteps—and have Rachael Ray taking a long, hard look at herself.


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ISBN-13: 9780984964444
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Publication date: 10/23/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 805 KB

About the Author

J.D. Smith has published three collections of poetry, one collection of essays and one children's book. His work has appeared in Alimentum, The Bark, Gastronomica, the environmental ezine Grist and the Los Angeles Times. His one-act play "Dig," produced in London by CurvingRoad in 2010, was adapted for film in 2011. Under no circumstances does he want to direct. Smith divides his time between work and home in Washington, DC, where he studies the cheeses of the world and tries not to pronate too much.

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