Glenn

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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 Anderson Englert and Richard Harding Englert. Richard Englert was 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 up performing under the stage name pf Bongo the Clown. 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.

Besides his absurd melange of comedy and juggling blended with hard-edged political observations, Glenn has created art in numerous categories: sculpture, from palm trees to earthworks and twisted wire; fiber and fabric assemblies; woven 'blankets' of urban detritus; splattered paint; computer graphics; spiderwebs and shadow boxes.

Glenn eventually quit the clown business when it became, in his words, "too profitable to be fun any more." 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.

Quotes

• "Now is when things happen"
• "Now you've hit the point of the nail."

as 'Bongo':

• "I was running late, so I got dressed in the park."
• "Hi, I'm Bongo - Bongo The Clown - my friends call me 'Bongo'... you can call me Mr. The Clown"