Or, just use the theme, and remove the footer links.

I'm not a big fan of image-heavy themes, but this one does look nice.

What's the thing above the posts, that looks like a piece of long, thin cardboard tacked to the fence?

I think one thing he could have done that might have been a nice touch would have been to change the color (or style or whatever) of the thumbtack for "sticky" posts. (All posts have a gold thumbtack "holding" them to the fence background. The "sticky" posts could maybe have a red thumbtack, for example.)

Also, I like the paper-curl effect, but I would have put it at the top of the post, instead of at the bottom - in order to emulate the behavior of paper that is tacked with only one thumbtack (the top of the paper curls, rather than the bottom).

I like the post-it note-style pull quotes, too.