As of Sunday, August 25, rustyrazorblade is now powered by pelican. So far, no complaints.
It was easy to get started. Installed through pip into a virtualenv and up and running in just a few minutes. It was a significantly better experience than my attempt at using octopress, which mixed theming, code, and my content all into one mess of a projct.
The new blog is just a folder of content (markdown), my theme, and a Makefile.