Former (as of yesterday!) Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank has volunteered. . . Barney Frank to temporarily serve in the senate seat soon to be vacated by probable new Secretary of State John Kerry. “The first months of the new Senate will be among the most important in American history,” Frank told The Boston Globe. “I may be a little immodest, but I called the governor and said I think I can be a help in reaching a fair solution to some of these issues.”

The gentleman who will eventually appoint the interim senator is Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, whom Frank characterized as “noncommittal” during their initial conversation about the ex-congressman’s self-nomination. Frank and Patrick go way (way-ish) back: the governor officiated Frank’s July 2012 wedding to partner Jim Ready, which doesn’t count for nothing.

Note that the senate post is quite specifically a temp job, as the state will hold a concurrent special election to determine its permanent co-representative in the upper chamber of congress. That special election will likely be populated by a ragtag crew of deposed politicians and possible residents of other states, including Cosmopolitan Sexiest Man of the Year 1982 Scott Brown and Chevy Chase, Maryland, homeowner/current Massachusetts congressman Ed Markey.

The winds of change, they are a’blowin’—watch Kerry’s facial folds ripple in the breeze.