I'm glad to know that about Mark Shepherd. I always loved Crowley.

It seems Jared got into an altercation with management at Stereotype, an Austin bar he reportedly owns.

He's been charged with charged with two counts of Class A misdemeanor assault with injury. Ignore the video at the top of this article. It's just filler junk. [link]

TMZ has some video. [link] It made me sad to see him so visibly intoxicated.

The larger entertainment press has picked it up (like THR and Deadline, but their coverage doesn't add anything).

According to TV Line, as of now, a source close to the set says it shouldn't affect production. [link]

ETA

This LA Times article includes names of two alleged victims and reports they want to pursue the assault charges. It also quotes TMZ as reporting there were three charges against Jared (rather than the two reported by the Ledger in my first link). [link]

Two counts of assault, plus public intoxication.

I'd heard backchannel that his arm cast in an earlier season was the result of picking a stupid drunken fight. Apparently, it's a habit.

I think he and Jensen talked about that old drunken fight publicly.

This, though, makes me disproportionately sad.

I just got around to reading this piece by Misha in the NY Times: [link]

It's sort of amazing (and sad and scary) that he actually lived Sam and Dean's childhood.

So ... Sam is getting flashes of Chuck's internal monologue through his dreams? And Chuck is apparently going to be this season's big bad?

I loved the featured song (I think Jensen and Steve Carlson's album is really good, in an old school bluesy rock way), but I felt like the episode itself was clunky. And the direction seemed ... weird. Like, lots of closeups, and other choices that aren't usual. (And I know Jensen directed, so ...) A cynical part of me feels like they're sort of trying to show the world in general what else they might be right for, in terms of roles.

I wanted to love this season so much. So far, I really don't.

Is that what was happening?

Really did not care for this episode at all. The MOTW story was somewhere between meh and terrible and the Chuck storyline I could barely watch. What a disservice to Becky

Only a little ways into the latest episode, but Castiel's alias is awfully cute

I think my SPN meter needs recalibration. The Chris Kane episode made me cringe a little. For one, we all know Dean loves music, but he was never supposed to have a good singing voice. Also, even though good people wrote it (Kripke, for one), it felt completely unbalanced and pretty forced in terms of revisiting history.

It also seemed like a commercial for JA's new career as a rock star, which is horribly cynical, but felt true.

It's also possible I should not be watching show while high.

Amy: Nope. Yup. Yup, nope. Enh, yup. Big yup, also yup, and yup.

In conclusion, up to you, man.

Couldn'ta said it better.