Happy Fourth of July! Have a great day celebrating the 233rd birthday of our beloved country. Have some BBQ and spend time with your family, and make sure you head downtown to the Baton Rouge levee on the Mississippi River to catch the annual July 4th fireworks, sponsored by the City of Baton Rouge. The show is always spectacular and filled with really, really cool fireworks. It starts at dark (usually around 9 PM, if I remember correctly), but get there early to find a parking spot. You can park downtown or at the levee lots on Gourrier Rd at LSU (although those are quite a bit away, they’re usually fairly empty). The best place to watch the show is on top of the letters on the levee. Have fun and be sure to let us know how you’re Fourth went. As always, if you have news or pictures from the event, share them with us!

From everyone here at the Baton Rougean, have a safe and wonderful Independence Day!

I’m receiving field reports that East Baton Rouge Sherrif’s Office is performing some sort of security check near Jones Creek Road. Apparently they’re checking basic things like insurance, driver’s license, and inspection stickers. So if you’re in the neighboorhood, make sure you’re not riding dirty (well, you really shouldn’t be anyway).

I got an email from a dedicated reader this morning pointing me to a Twitter account which masquerades as a timely news source for Baton Rouge. After doing some digging, she realized that this account is linked to a deep spam and referral scheme—basically, it’s a fraud. I actually found the account a few weeks ago when they started following my accounts on Twitter, but I didn’t do the thorough research to determine it’s fake. I didn’t follow it, but only because I was indignant that someone would try to steal my thunder. In any case, I wanted to point out a really great source of Baton Rouge Twitter accounts for news. The site is Newstwit: Baton Rouge. Of course, this is a site that I developed in conjuncture with Baton Rouge-based Liquid Ventures, but I hand-selected the accounts featured on the Baton Rouge page and I guarantee the relevancy of their tweets.

Thanks for the tip, Becky!

Hey guys, I just wanted to share with you a little project that I’ve been working on. In no way is this at all related to anything remotely about Baton Rouge, but I know a lot of you are also hardcore Twitter users like myself (@lleger, btw), so I wanted to do some shamless self-promotion here. It’s a simple test to see if you’re addicted to twitter. Check it out and let me know what you think.

http://amiaddictedtotwitter.com

Today, the Legislature was blessed with the presence of Hurricane Chris, a recognized rapper from Shreveport. Rep Barbara Norton of Shreveport thought it was wise to allow him to rap about Halle Berry to open the session. TMZ found this video:

To be fair to TMZ, they actually had some hilarious commentary. But they’re completely right: this is completely absurd. This song has no place in our Capitol, and even less place in the real world. It’s atrocious that Rep Norton used her distinguished position to allow this. Moreover, all the positive things she said about the rapper are just totally voided by the actual content of the song: I can’t believe someone would actually sing this to such esteemed company. The full text of the song is written below (warning, strong language).

Bow bow bow
Bow bow
Bow bow bow
Bow bow
Bow bow bow
Hurricane
Bow bow
Bow bow bow
Bow bow
Bow bow bow
Bum bum bum
Bum bum bum
Bum bum bum
Bum bum bum
She fine den a bitch, ass and her tits
Thick in tha hips every nig want her
Call her Halle Berry, Halle berry
Halle Berry, Halle berry
She walkin like a model
Hands on your knees
Scrub the ground
She ain’t nothing but a tease
Halle Berry, Halle berry
Halle Berry, Halle berry
Well let’s get ratchet
Let’s get ratchet
Look at her prettier then Halle and thicker than Janet
She say she like all of my club bangers I be jamming
Told her to bust it open let me see what’s really happnin
She the ship and I’m the captain
I’m tha captain
Booty bigger than the pus
And I’m all the way in your city
I’m from louisianna so you gotta show me how your
City do it for that camera
Make it drop and bring it back to the top
You no amateur
Girl you can give it to me it ain’t nothing I can’t handle
She just got out of the shower smellin like a scented candle
And I’m finna finna?
Sliding off tha mattress
No moving no acting baby this is real action
Beat it up so bad
You be scared to walk past me
I know your halle berry
Baby there’s no acting
I beat it up so bad
You be scared to walk past me for real
She fine den a bitch ass and her tits
Thick in tha hips every nig want her
Call her Halle Berry, Halle berry
Halle Berry, Halle berry
She walkin like a model
Hands on your knees
Scrub the ground
She ain’t nothing but a tease
Halle Berry, Halle berry, Halle berry
Halle Berry, Halle berryHalle berry you jazze
That’s way past fine
Girl you look like something that should be on tha dance line
Increadable by tha waist
Pluss she got a pretty face
Even tho she got class she listen to UGKI’m finna flip her through traffic
With tha top back of tha donkGirl
I gaurntee I can make you go numb numb numb numb
I got enough bread to take me and you to London
And back to America and all over the country
She make me want to keep her close by
Like a side kick
She tha type of chick that ain’t gone never look sloppy
I’m a beat it out the frame
Hurricane that’s who I be
You must be Halle berry
I don’t need to see your Id
She fine den a bitch ass and her tits
Thick in tha hips every nig want her
Call her Halle Berry, Halle berry
Halle Berry, Halle berry
She walkin like a model
Hands on your knees
Scrub the ground
She ain’t nothing but a tease
Halle Berry, Halle berryHalle Berry, Halle berry
Gone bob your head
Gone work your shoulder
Now what I just said girl do it on tha dick
Age ain’t shit
I done got a lil older
Me or you man baby girl take a pic
Whitch one
She so classy, Shes so jazzy
Lil momma blow like a
Do it on tha dick
She don’t need no help
She say she got itS
he do it all by her self
Get so fine
Like a god damn ticket
Gave her a hickey
In order for a nig like me to spend cash
You gotta bounce like shocks in your ass
You, bed, ass, work
Start slow faster
Mr. Halle Berry
Mr.Take your bitch
Take her from tha club
To tha car to tha dick
She fine den a bitch ass and her tits
Thick in tha hips every nig want her
Call her Halle Berry, Halle berry
Halle Berry, Halle berry
She walkin like a model
Hands on your knees
Scrub the ground
She ain’t nothing but a tease
Halle Berry, Halle berry, Halle berry
Halle Berry, Halle berry

There are so many issues plaguing our state right now. That this was allowed into the capitol at all is insulting and is making a mockery of our great state. I move that Rep Barbara Norton issue an apology to the people of Louisiana and that our representatives get back to doing what we pay them to do: legislate.

LSU is holding a welcome home celebration for the newly crowned LSU Tigers. The celebration starts at 4 PM at Alex Box Stadium. Gates open at 2 PM and admission and parking is free.

Be sure to drop by and welcome home our hard working baseball team. I’ll be there, so look out for me if you stop by.

LSU bested Texas in a best-of-three series in the College World Series tonight to be crowned with the school’s sixth championship. Beating Texas 11-4, every member proved to be a critical component of a winning team.

From all of us at the Baton Rougean, congratulations guys. Geaux Tigers, and Forever LSU!

The second game in the best-of-three NCAA baseball College World Series ended in a heartbreaking 5-1 loss for LSU. Initially delayed, Texas scored their runs early in the game. LSU then succeeded in holding them to only five for the remainder of the game. Texas held the Tigers to only one run for the first time in a long time, ending their winning streak. Either team only needs one more game to win the championship. Join the Tigers tomorrow at 6 PM local time on ESPN for the finale. Let’s cheer on our boys in the final, nail-biting game to bring home our sixth championship.

WAFB is reporting that Baton Rouge is under consideration as a production location for a major sci-fi blockbuster titled Battle: Los Angeles with star Aaron Eckhart. The Celtic Media Centre sound stage would host the crew and parts of North Blvd and I-110 have been rumored to be locations of possible shoots. No one has confirmed this, but there’s a huge budget associated with the movie which is a great thing for Baton Rouge. The only question I have is:

How did Baton Rouge get chosen to be a shooting location for a movie based in Los Angeles?

Baton Rouge looks nothing like Los Angeles. Well, who cares, it’s a lot of money.

The Reveille is reporting that Rick Perry, governor of Texas, and Bobby Jindal are taking bets on the College World Series final. Perry bet a plate of Texas BBQ and Jindal a plate of Louisiana Seafood that their respective state’s team would take home the trophy. Of course, we all know that after last night’s rally to win the game 7-6, LSU is taking home this trophy. I mean, seriously, when Chad Jones was up to bat ESPN was showing highlights from his football career at LSU. And Matty Ott helped save the day by striking out four batters in a row, three in the last inning to save the game—he’s a freshman, mind you.

Oh yeah, we got this locked down. Watch LSU win tonight on ESPN at 6 PM or listen on LSU Sports Radio 98.1 FM.