I'm playing around with some variant home pages for Nuketown, and I've come up with one I really like: it uses a large photo/image/graphic on the home page, and places the content beneath it. It feels more webzine-ish, and less bloggish, while retaining interactivity (or rather adding it, since there isn't much here now).
Here's the variant home page, with three different sets of cover art. The goal was to see how well it could handle different kinds of cover stories; movies are easy, but books -- like Ghost Brigade -- are a lot tougher because my layout is horizontal, and most book art (or at least, the stuff I can get online) is vertical).
Feedback is welcome and appreciated! Send it to knewquist@nuketown.com or use the feedback form.