Some, maybe many, of our readers may not know the name Chuck Brown.  He was a music icon in Washington, D.C.  He is often described as the “godfather of Go-Go”.   Growing out of the funk music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he fused the percussion of funk – mostly a syncopated rhythm that embraced a variety of percussive instruments including the cowbell – with his gravelly voice and a give-and-take with the audience to form Go-Go. 

The interactive nature of the music (a call-and-response) drove its popularity and Chuck Brown artfully would weave songs together using transition percussion so people were always dancing and participating. This created “go-gos” that would go on for hours into the early morning hours. As popular as the music became in the area, it never really grew past the Washington, D.C. metro area. It is, rightfully so, a source of pride for the black community here in the DC area. It’s influence has continued in music and culture.

This graffiti tag seen by your DC-native Gormogons around town, particularly along the Metro Red Line, is the mark of “Cool” Disco Dan who was largely influenced by the go-go music scene.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.