The Hlog is going to a different world this weekend and wants you to ride along

Generally, I don't like to announce where I'm going because it makes it too easy for fellow criminal elements and the Federales to track me down.

Most days, this blog is updated from an undisclosed location on the other side of town, under the boardwalk. Never up on the roof.

But I'll live dangerously today and tell you I'm driving to Kansas City tonight. The reason is to write stuff this weekend about Landon Cassill of Cedar Rapids, a young man who is running on NASCAR's Sprint Cup circuit. For those not attuned to stock car racing, that's the biggest show of all in that sport.

What I know is posting stuff about the racing and the scene at Kansas Speedway won't move the needle here, commercially.  In fact, in an ironic twist, NASCAR will slow my traffic. If the posts here aren't in a box labeled "Iowa Hawkeyes-related football and men's basketball material," they simply don't get opened as much.

But that's the world I live in online, and I either accept it or try to change it by writing the holy heck (I'd say "hell" in real-life conversations, but I take on a bogus civil persona here) out of non-Hawkeye propaganda and hope someone, somewhere notices. But it's a faint hope.

I wrote a piece about Tom Brands and Dan Gable last weekend that was better stuff than 99 percent of what you'll see here, and it didn't crush any page-view records. But if I put up a post that says "Hawkeyes will feed on the blood of Ohio State's carcass" and simply attach a photo of a Buckeyes logo with a red slash through it, that's gold, Jerry, gold!

So do I leave most of the material from the racing deal off the blog and just give it to the newspaper? No. Why? Read some of it this weekend and find out. No promises, but you just might find sex, violence, zany antics, and many more key ingredients of life's rich banquet. And, of course, half-off coupons from sponsoring restaurants.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to take a tub-full of empty cans to the nearest recycling agency to get my five-cent deposits back. But later today ...