You dont have to use static pages for that...
if all you want to do is present the GeekLog Layout and have your code in that... there are a cople of things you can do:
<?php
echo COM_siteHeader();
echoCOM_startBlock(Some Title);
YOUR CODE HERE
echo COM_endBlock();
echo COM_siteFooter();
?>
will do what you want to do

This is what I do for a stopgap until I get Static pages set up

Hope this helps !
Let me know how it turns out, I may be interested in working on something like this as well for my site.
-John-----John
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http://john.hoke.org