I too am waiting for the pendulum to swing from clean corporate cookie cutterism back to dumb fun and I believe it's up to us to make that change. It probably won't happen on its own.
I am interested in setting up my own site to contain my random musings and silly photography. Currently in the "collecting resources and knowledge" phase. If you're into zine trading I can mail-trade you the first issue of my photo zine (shot with a PDA camera module). There are seemingly unlimited other resources out there, but having it in short-form physical format is an attractive premise.
hopefully we'll see something new soon