Longer hair softens his face and makes him look younger, I think. He wears that bracelet of brown beads every con since Chicago 07--they look like agate or a kind of jasper. I'm curious, because different stones (are supposed to) have different properties (amethyst protects against drunkenness, rose quartz elevates your spirit, rutilated quartz enhances your perception, etc.), and I wonder if he's working on some personal attribute. Or if the beads were a gift and he's sentimental. He also usually wears a steel or silver ball chain and either a black fabric ribbon or black jelly or leather cord bracelet with the beads and ball chain.

He wears the ball chain necklace (click to enlarge) he had on in CSPWDT with his amulet a lot, usually tucked under a shirt. I don't know if it has a pendant, or what that is if it does.

What? Eye for detail man, that's all.

Jared? A watch. And since the thinking-of-Sandy black jelly bracelet went away, nothing else. Unless there are possible hidden piercings, of course.

Oh you know I'm not the only one who went there.

With the no-hugging rule, it doesn't look like either of them is having as much fun this con as they did in LA and AUS. Or maybe the pictures I've seen have just been with uninspiring fans. Dunno.

nothing else. Unless there are possible hidden piercings, of course.

You are an evil, evil woman. And we like you that way.

What no-hugging rule? No hugging each other, or hugging fans?

I like the hair longer like that, so long as it's not dorktastically slicked back.

it looks way greasy and gross to me. dnw!

No arms around the fans, or fans' arms around them, in the photo ops. Sometimes they ignore it. I think often it's the venue making that rule because they don't want the liability of someone more-than-hugging. Asylum is the con that Jared cancelled out of two years ago, Jensen went alone and walking from one appearance to the next, surrounded by security, a fangirl launched an air attack from overhead--she jumped on him from the stairs. It rattled him.

As it would anybody. I was watching a televised Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park, and a fan came flying up onstage. I have never seen a look of fear like Paul Simon had on his face as she barreled toward him. She only wanted a hug, but realistically, she could have had a knife, or been psychotic on drugs.

Two occasions when JA had the same look--the behind the scenes the CW shot on Long Distance Call. The Js did the scene, Jared walked out the door, Jensen stood there a beat and then walked out of frame. They cut, and then he turned to speak to the guys in the crew and saw the behind the scenes camera still rolling. He got that expression and evaporated out of camera range immediately.

A vid from the Red Bull Derby last fall after the race, there were a group of people standing on what looked like a porch. JA caught sight of the camera pointed at him--he got that look again, and simply melted out of sight.

For all the grace and charm Jared projects, all the spontaneity, and I believe genuine enjoyment, nobody in a public spotlight can afford to be as open and accessible as perhaps they would like to be. If I was in a position to be signing autographs, I'd have a no-touch rule, myself. If I ever got up the courage to make a personal appearance, money or no.

...geez. Wind me up and I'll do twenty minutes. Sorry.

No, I agree with what you're saying. I would not be able to handle the intrusion AT ALL. I'm afraid Misha, what with his twittering and all, is going to be on the receiving end of that type of fan hysteria as well.

Certainly at the moment he seems to be basking in it, which is nice, but, yeah - I do get this whole sense of impending doom. Seriously, mate - do not feed the fangirls. I'm half expecting someone to throw fake pony blood at him, a la Carrie. Or turn up on his doorstep, the way they did with Hewlett. It does feel a bit like an accident waiting to happen. (And, God help me, I am totally sucked into the Twitter thing.)

otoh, I should think that the Js are probably relieved to have some of the attention shifting off them.

I am totally sucked into the Twitter thing.

I finally discovered the immense value of Twittering in breathtakingly painful business meetings. Extremely therapeutic.

I finally discovered the immense value of Twittering in breathtakingly painful business meetings.

It is more socially acceptable than lunging across the table and beating someone into blessed silence.

But is it more satisfying?