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Ponyhenge update

We went, we saw, we laughed, we rode ponies in a field in Lincoln, Massachusetts. What fun! If you're in the greater Boston area, take yourself -- and your kids -- to Ponyhenge. 

Ponyhenge

My friend Stephanie reminded me a few weeks ago that I haven't yet visited Ponyhenge, a spontaneous collection of rocking horses, plastic ponies, and other horse toys in a field by the side of the road in Lincoln, Massachusetts (half an hour from Boston). Since 2010, the figures have been mysteriously appearing, and multiplying; they're occasionally rearranged into a circle, or a racing formation, or left to total chaos. Nobody knows how Ponyhenge started, though Atlas Obscura has posited some theories. I plan to check it out this summer.

Museum of Bad Art

Yes, it's a real thing, and how lucky we Bostonians are to have it. The Museum of Bad Art collects and preserves "art too bad to be ignored," like this painting titled Cat's Mouth. My favorite thing about the Museum is the very serious and thoughtful captioning that accompanies the works on display. For this one: A comment on issues of power as experienced by those who dwell with feline pets. Is the artist consumed with or consumed by his love for this cat? Does he identify with the personality of this startling animal? Does the similarity of these inseparable cohabitants stop short at the nose? The Museum, which began in a private home before moving to a location just outside the men's toilets in a movie theater, now has a home in a brewery in Dorchester. Admission is free. Or you can take advantage of online curator talks on a quirky list of topics: Doppelhangers, In the Nood, A visit to the MOBA Zoo, and more.

Andy Borowitz, political humorist

If I could live for one day in someone else's brain, I'd choose Andy Borowitz as my brain host. It takes a special kind of person to find humor in today's political climate. Borowitz, a writer for The New Yorker, is exactly that special. A Harvard-educated American writer, comedian, satirist and actor, he won the first-ever National Press Club award for humor. His new book, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber, published in 2022, looks at the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Donald J. Trump. When Biden won the presidency, I worried that Borowitz would lose his edge after five years of satirizing the other guy. That didn't happen; Borowitz is sharper than ever, and finds plenty of grist for his mill. Sign up to get The Borowitz Report delivered to your inbox every weekday.