I agree with you about that blog, that site took a long time to load on my T1-equivalent connection and it wasn't worth it. Are there even any text entries on that site?
Give me a down-to-earth blog any day, here are two nice ones I found:
http://www.markgwilson.com/brrr/
http://tblogs.bootsnall.com/luke/ <- from a field, camp, the first blog I've found.