The most surreal thing about the Soy Bomb Incident, though, in retrospect, is how long it lasted. “I was very surprised I got to dance for so long!” Portnoy said in a recent interview. “But no one filming the event had any clue that it wasn’t part of the act.”

Portnoy, it turns out, was a performance artist, and he considered “Soy Bomb” a two-word poem. “Soy … represents dense nutritional life,” he (sort of) explained, “Bomb is, obviously, an explosive destructive force. So, soy bomb is what I think art should be: dense, transformational, explosive life.”

This may not be news to anyone who didn’t, like me, stop paying much attention to culture about 24 years ago, but I was delighted to learn that the Soy Bomb guy (yes, a direct inspiration for my nom de blog) turned out to be a performance artist who continues to do all sorts of intriguing projects: strangergames.com