The Institute for Aesthetics is a combination of sports and performance art that has spawned such sports as Straightjacket Softball (not a joke) and Wifflehurling. Anyone who shows up can play, don a sombrero and run around trying to follow the rules which are made up as you go along. I went to one event in Washington Square Park where there were four teams, three basketball hoops, ten balls and everyone was wearing a jersey with the same number. Something called Megasoccer is starting this month (in the winter they have re-created Hieronymus Bosch on ice-skates and done X-mas tree javelin toss.) Sign up on the email list and go to the next game. If you’re like me and you won’t even participate in funny, disorganized sports, we can sit together and watch from the sidelines and go to the bar after. Beats softball anyday.