Here’s another list, though it’s a couple years old.

A blog is a pretty simple application at the end of the day, especially if you outsource comments to a third party service like disqis, etc.

Once you’re familiar with how Django works, you’ll be able to push out a well-featured blog with one eye closed and one hand tied behind your back.

Honestly, though, unless you want to use it as a way of learning to do something (Frabjous was my teach-myself-Django project at first), I wouldn’t bother rolling your own. There are too many options out there already for you to burn time on it.