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Glenn, whose full legal name consists of the single word "Glenn," is an American performer and artist.Glenn was born Glenn Harding Englert on February 12, 1957 in Arlington, Texas to Edith Englert and Richard Englert. Richard Englert is also known as Rusty Harding, the "boomerang engineer."
Due to Glenn's contention that he was exempt from the federal withholding of his income tax (a belief with which he claimed the IRS was in complete accord), he found himself unable to work at a normal job, and took to both creating works of art and performing as a Clown, under the stage name of Bongo the Clown.
Glenn has created art in numerous categories: sculpture, from palm trees to earthworks to twisted wire; fiber and fabric assemblies; woven 'blankets' of urban detritus; glass; splattered paint; computer graphics; spiderwebs and shadow boxes. Glenn manufactured (for another artist, whose art it is) a massive sculptural construction made primarily of thick bulletproof glass which is part the Smithsonian Institution's collection.
His largest work, "Ku" created from the 22-foot stump of a live date palm, is a likeness of the fierce toothy visage of Ku'ka'ili'moku the Hawai'ian god of War, carved with a chainsaw over the course of a three month period in 1981. "Ku" is rooted in the ground, at the private residence of the client who commissioned the work.
Glenn's stained glass craftsmanship can be seen in the stained glass lamps on the tavern set of the American television show cheers, which were co-created with Seymore Saidner.
Between June, 1980 and the mid-1990s, "Bongo" gained notoriety as both a "producing clown" and as a founding member of the award-winning North Valley Clown Alley.
As Bongo his performances were an "absurd melange of comedy and juggling blended with hard-edged political observations".
Bongo often performed with Clownzo(Terry Teene), his friend and mentor. Glenn eventually quit the clown business when it became, in his words, "too profitable to be fun any more."
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Glenn appeared in the Roger Corman movie Overdrive. (He is the pit crewman in the fight scene at the racetrack).
As of 2003, Glenn lives a quiet life in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, tending to a bonsai tree that is over forty years old.
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