Sorry, kid, I think your old dad is just stringing you along:
John Mellencamp's son Speck has taken to Facebook in an effort to convince his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame father to quit smoking. “I made a deal with my dad that if I get a 1,000,000 to join this group he will quit smoking,” Speck writes on the Facebook group page. That means it'll only take a platinum plaque's worth of fellow Facebookers to get Mellencamp to ditch the nicotine and live a healthier lifestyle. It's been written that Mellencamp used to smoke four packs a day, and while he's since cut down that number significantly, he remains a smoker to this day.
A million is a pretty high bar, don't you think? And he won't quit for himself or for you, but he will for 1 million strangers?
And why in the world would anyone saddle his kid with a name like "Speck"?
