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The last season at the current Yankee Stadium begins this afternoon with a game against the Toronto Blue Jays. I can't be there, but my friend John Ricotta is going to three games this week.



John (center), with his bandmate Andrew D'Amato, and me in a Stadium luxury box for John's bachelor party, August 9, 2003. With Andy Pettitte opposing Gil Meche, the Mariners beat the Yanks, 2-1.

UPDATE (2:30 PM): Due to rain, today's game will be made up tomorrow night.

Different profiles on different blogs on one Blogger account

It occurred to me that while readers of If You Want to Know About My Life... naturally want to read more about my life, readers of Gerald So's Desk should probably see more of my professional credentials (B.A. from Hofstra, M.A. from Queens College, taught at Hofstra...), and readers of Chatterrific probably want to read more about the lists I moderate. Also, in all honesty, my catchall Blogger profile was dangerously close to the 1,200-character limit.

Chatterrific and Gerald So's Desk use the same font and line spacing for the profile as for the blog entries, so I followed Peter Chen's instructions.

To customize my profile on If You Want to Know About My Life..., I created an HTML widget that calls on style declarations used by the default Profile widget to display my name and location (profile-data), author photo (profile-img), and information (profile-textblock).

Alternatively, you can go into your template, following Vin's instructions, and type your own information where Blogger calls for your default data:aboutme/ but that requires you to save changes to your template whenever you want to change your information.

WENN: Lucas: Don't Get Your Hopes Up About Indy

George Lucas is clearly concerned that Indiana Jones fans may have built up unrealistic expectations for his upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. "When you do a movie like this, a sequel that's very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it's going to be the Second Coming," Lucas told USA Today. "And it's not. It's just a movie. Just like the other movies. You probably have fond memories of the other movies. But if you went back and looked at them, they might not hold up the same way your memory holds up." In fact, he added, when expectations rise to such heights, "You're not going to get a lot of accolades. ... All you can do is lose."

While there's some truth to what Lucas says, one reason for the anticipation is he's waited twenty years between movies. I for one am not expecting much. Part of me thought if he couldn't make a sequel within three to five years of Last Crusade he should leave well enough alone. Still, given Indy's relationship to history, reconnecting with him at any time in his life is appealing.