Brian Kolb

Yesterday (Friday, January 5, 2007) the infamous Brian Kolb strode into the PT-gym, apparently as a patient.

(Left) Brian Kolb doing his earnest-face.

Brian Kolb is our local New York State Assemblyman, a tub-thumping REPUBLICAN Conservative zealot.
Although that portrays him as more extreme than he actually is. Tub-thumping bellicose Texas Conservatism doesn’t fly in Western New York, so Kolb has had to mellow quite a bit to stay in office. (He’s also gained about 60 pounds.)
The tub-thumpers are of course crying “sell-out.”
“Was that the infamous Brian Kolb?” I asked the Physical-Therapist as I was leaving.
“Yes, it was,” she said.
“You notice I stayed quiet as a church-mouse,” I said.
“Yes,” she said; “and I was deathly afraid you might make some snide remark.”
“I could have told stories,” I said.

The best Brian Kolb story is the supposed interview he circulated to all the local media-outlets.
Local TV-personalities could dub in the questions, and the TV-camera shown in the interview was actually Kolb’s camera, which stations could brand as their own with software.

Another Brian Kolb story is how he accused the mighty Mezz of bias because we wouldn’t publish his self-congratulatory press-releases.
No matter we also refused to publish similar press-releases of his opponents — even though they were less strident than his.
-What I didn’t do was tell Kolb I was the guy who wrote the Op-Ed piece on motorcycling despite age.
He wrote me a personal letter cheering me on.
I guess Kolb is having trouble with his knees; not pain but instability.
He deluged the Physical-Therapist with a torrent of detailed questions — what I would have done years ago — in a feeble attempt to appear intelligent and thereby in his own mind in control of the situation.
Maybe he needs to see a shrink.

My macho brother in Boston is always telling me I need to see a “shrink.”