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~-4r a CT2 1 A dieter's guide to weightlessness "Breaking Up with Your Last Candy Bar" by Lizi Boyd is a diet book with advice for per petual dieters. Don't even read the book unless you've tried every diet imaginable. Some of Boyd's thin-is-in strategies include tracing an outline of your body and hanging it on the refrigerator, rewrapping your vegetables in old candy wrappers and us ing old shoes as serving dishes. More practical advice in cludes filling up the grocery cart with paper goods before shopping for food, wearing nose plugs on the street so the smell of food doesn't tempt you and watching television flat on your back so you can't eat; But if these don't work, you can always substitute food for tennis balls, create a distrac tion by putting flying fish in the bathtub or serve blueberry juice and snow cones on a winter day. Along with Boyd's pearls of diet wisdom, the book con tains 75 of her original car toons. And after you can wake up in the morning without pinching your sides, look at yourself in the bathtub and eat in public with confidence, Boyd recommends giving the book to someone who needs it. Breaking Up with Your Last Candy Bar, by Lizi Boyd. A Pantheon Book, $3.50. A word- fanatic's guide No word-lover (or book- lover) should be without Paul Dickson's "A Connoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird and Wonderful, Useful and Outlandish Words." In cluded in the collection are over 2,000 words and phrases for drunk, definitions for words like doromaniac — a person who has a compulsion to own furs and tacenda — which means "those things which should not be men tioned." A Connoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird and Wonderful, Useful and Out landish Word, by Paul Dick son. A Dell Book, $7.95. Concerts Sci-fi and fantasy writers' contest If music and MTV is what keeps you going, now's the time to see your favorites in concert. November is the month for you to catch up with The Police, The Stray Cats and many others in Au stin, Dallas or Houston. If you prefer Austin, there's the Frank Erwin Cen ter and the Meadows. Rick James will be at the Erwin Center tonight. And if you missed Jimmy Buffet here on the 2nd, then you can catch him Saturday night. If you have the money or time, Sun day night the Moody Blues also will be performing. The following Thursday, the 10th, you cat-'h The Children have all the fun, or do they? Now adults can en joy the Anti-Coloring Books without looking silly, because Susan Striker — creator of the original books has created "The Anti-Coloring For Adults Only." Made up of partial line drawings, the book is the per fect way for adults to spend free time or liven up parties. More sophisticated themes in clude drawing in answers to such questions as: "What did Stray Cats and on Friday Dan Fogelberg. The Meadows will be featuring The Police on the 19th, if you're lucky enough to have tickets. Rumor has it that Joe "King" Carrasco will be one of the opening acts. If you like the concert scene in Houston, then most of the action will be at The Summit. Jimmy Buffet will be there this Sunday and the Moody Blues will be performing on Monday. The following Sun day, the 13th, Alabama is per forming. The Police will play both the 16th and 17th. And the Gap Band is scheduled for Friday the 18th. If vou hit Dallas this your ugliest blind date look like?" "What would you look like after a sex-change opera tion?" "What would you would you like to tell your spouse that you never had the courage to say?" and "What would you do with the money if you struck it rich gamb- ling?" The Anti-Coloring Book For Adults Only, by Susan Striker. An Owl Paperback, $5.95. weekend, be sure and catch the Moody Blues tonight at Reunion Arena. The Police will perform at Reunion on the 14th and 15th. Also the Gap Band will be at Reunion on the 20th. Billy Bob's in Fort Worth will have The Bellamy Bros, on the 5th, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on the 16th, George Strait and Rusty Weir on the 19th and The Commodores on the 30th. If the budget is tight or you just can't get away, then G. Rollie White has The Com modores scheduled for a Bon fire night performance on Nov. 25. Wurstfest to begin German festival Wurstfest — held in New Braunfels each year — starts today and will run through Nov. 13. Wurstfest specializes in authentic German food, en tertainment and dancing. De- monstrations-of crafts and sausage-making, as well as live bands will be featured. An 18-piece brass band from Braunfels, Germany will perform the first weekend. Myron Floren, accordionist for the Lawrence Welk TV Show, will open the festivities at 5:30 p.m. today by conduct- Celestial Publications is hold ing its second annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Contest. Any budding writers or illus trators are welcome to enter. Categories are story, drama, poem and art. A contestant may have more than one en try. Submit entrys to Celestial Publications, P.O. Box 75057, Houston, TX 77234 before Jan. 1, 1984. Entries must be typed and artwork must be done in black. All entries become the ing the Mid-Texas Symphony Orchestra. On display will be a large collection of Hummel figurines and a Heritage Ex hibit featuring German set tlers' artifacts. For tickets or more infor mation write Wurstfest, P.O. Box 180, New Braunfels 78130, or call (512) 625-2385. property of Celestial Publica tions and may not be submit ted to anv other publisher. Winners will be announced in February. The first place winner will receive $25 and a deluxe bound edition of Celestial Collection II. Second and third place winners will receive $15 and $10 and de luxe bound editions of Celes tial Collection II. Runner's up will receive regular editions of the collection, posters, mer chandise or other prizes. 'Feast' to end This is the last weekend for the Texas Renaissance Festiv al. This year's theme for the festival is "The Year of the Feast." For a mere $10, you can see court jesters, bawdy wenches, plays and other forms of live entertainment. Food and drink abounds — for a price — as well as arts and crafts. You can have your fortune told by Tarot cards or palm reading in the gypsy camp or have the King's feast — which includes admission and all the food and beverages you want for $50. The festival is located on FM 1774 between Magnolia and Plantersville. Take High way 6 to Houston, then exit on Highway 105 and follow the signs. The festival opens at 9 a.m. and closes at dark. Adult only book for anti-colorers