As for the pronounceable short URLs...

I think you are missing the point in the first place. But I can see your point, stinking in the brain is important.

cooklygm.com

greg@maxime:~ [0] $ whois -H cooklygm.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

No match for "COOKLYGM.COM".
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:19:57 UTC <<<


And the Redirect would be something like:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} blog.cooklygm.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} cooklygm.com$
RewriteRule ^/$ http://blog.cooklikeyourgrandmother.com/ [R=301,L]