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We're checking up on Supernatural convention news – and yes, we’re still having a blast. Yesterday, we got to see Chad Lindberg work the crowd like nobody’s business. This is a man who’s just as bent on having a good time as his character, Ash!

Chad thrilled the crowd by bringing in a very special guest – his itty-bitty nephew, Ivan. Chad tried to inaugurate Ivan into the Cult of the Mullet by putting a mullet-bearing John Deere hat on the toddler’s head, but Ivan rejected it – violently. Apparently not everyone likes the “business in the front, party in the back” way of life.

Other crowd-pleasing maneuvers: Chad jumped off the stage to hug fans, did a supermodel-style catwalk strut down the center aisle so everyone could get a good picture, and wore that child-size John Deere cap with attached mullet to truly channel Ash.

Other highlights:

• Does Chad think Ash is dead? “No! I think Ash is way to intelligent to get burned up in the Roadhouse.” He imagines that Ash is “on the open road in his jeep, letting the wind blow through his hair, with his arms around some lovely ladies.” There were some volunteers for “lovely ladies” duty in the audience!
• Would this version of Ash-in-hiding get rid of the mullet to disguise his identity? No way, said Chad. “The mullet is who he is. He might put it up in a bun, though.”
• Chad shot down the notion that he had a mullet himself when he was growing up. – He was pretty clean-cut, he said.
• Because most of Ash’s scenes were filming in the studio, he didn’t have to worry about walking around town with the mullet. It took about an hour to put on every day. Did he ever forget his was wearing it? No way – “It got itchy.”
• His favorite on-set moment was filing the scene where the boys were confronted by a pantsless Ash, just because Jensen and Jared has such a hard time keeping a straight face.
• Chad says he shares his “spunk” with Ash, but that’s about it – “I’m not really MIT smart.”
• One of the coolest moments was when Chad showed off some of his tattoos. The most important to me was a version of the breast cancer ribbon. His mom is a survivor and the whole family got their own breast-cancer-ribbon tattoo when she got through treatment.
• Chad seems to have been one of the few people to have escaped an encounter with Jared’s dogs. (Yes, someone asked!)

  We’ll be back this afternoon with news from the Jensen and Jared session. Keep checking, and keep commenting!