Apart from what Monkey said, I think visually the blog relies too much on that background. I think the rest of the elements need to support if not enhance it and not just rely on it too much.
I can see you wanted to go for a liquid metal/chrome look but it’s not fleshed out properly.
Keep working on it though, the more you mess around with and it and implement interesting ideas you see from similar chrome-like sites plus the babe of the week thing and you got yourself a winner!