Haha, I'm glad you like the layout! Sadly for this, you'll need a paid account. If you have one, you just create a "Most Recent Events" custom S1 style and dump the coding in the last box at the bottom of the page, leaving everything else blank. If you don't insert any IJ variables, it will read like any other website.
The issue with this is that you lose the capabilities for displaying entries on that one page. The way we got around that for the inner pages of the game was to do the entire layout in CSS classes and just add the %%events%% variable stripped bare, adding the CSS classes and ids into the IJ post with a LJ-RAW tag, instead. This is done in a DAY EVENTS custom layout, so you can link it to the day display instead of the full entry URL.
This would mostly work for mod journals, since character or ooc journals need the entries to be displayed. I'm not sure it can be done with just overrides, we never tried. I hope this made sense! Feel free to ask any questions if you have them.