Notes of a Tourist on Planet Earth: Being a Collection of Hilarious Essays, Poems and Ponderings About the Human Species

Back cover copy, 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.