Putting my Merc Skills to work

Well I didn't really like any of the templates on here. The scribe one was the closest but I still didn't like it. So I took a little time to edit it a bit today. What do you think?

I know, I know it still needs some work. I'm not sure about the background color. I like the dar red better then the pattern that was there before though. I tried black first but it seemed to dark. I'm still working on it.

I also added an area for links in the side bar and got rid of the graphic titles for archives and Recent posts as they were in a script that didn't match the rest of the page. Very inconsistant. Tisk. Tisk. I think the side bar looks better this way at least.