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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