I just finished some maintenance work of this blog. I have installed a free theme called Fusion, which is really an excellent one. I did not need to do much modification work on this theme except some custom alteration to show my blogged posts.
I added those comment images for the blogged post and custom display without the title. Added a video widget to the sidebar and a picture widget to the footer. Nothing else is done. This theme has a good feature to add custom CSS code in the setting which saved some time for me. The setting include analytics code, logo image upload and some custom widgets. I had some problem with the image sizes in the post which was sorted out using the Autothumb plugin, thanks to the author. PhotoQ plugin has the option to adjust the uploaded image size.