* The House will be back Monday at noon, so I’ll re-open comments late Memorial Day morning. The Senate comes back Monday at 2 o’clock. I hope to extract as much fun as I can out of our truncated holiday weekend and I hope you can as well.

I’ll keep the automated live-blog up and running in case we have some breaking news. But at this point, breaking news would probably be bad news, so let’s hope all is calm and quiet for the next couple days.

* Friday’s post about the incredible John Fullbright and his killer tune “Satan & St. Paul” attracted a comment from one of John’s friends…

This song was famously written in one white hot night of creation, along with one of his other favorites, “Unlocked Doors” (”And all these broken clocks had met their deaths. I measure time in steady breaths.”), when he was about 20 years old. By John’s standards, this is an old song.

He’s utterly brilliant, and one of the most grounded people I am privileged to know. So, so happy to see so many people getting on the Fullbright bus.

Also? He is semi-distantly related to Leon Russell by marriage. Trufax.

Cool.

* Let’s check out “Unlocked Doors,” sung here with Natalia Zuckerman…