Thanks for all the feedback!

1. I don't think that Blogger Pro will let us use the titles as links; nor am I sure I want that. I really like having the context first and the link second, not the other way 'round.

2. Yeah, having the first line the same as the title is really weird. It's only because we've been trying to be conscious of the RSS feed, which grabs the first couple words to use as a headline; so before I switched headlines on, we were replicating them. That'll stop now.

3. Grey titles does look weird, don't they? Black looked weird, too, IMO. Maybe black+bold+smallcaps? Mark? You've got the visual sense -- what do you say?