Rumormonger Says Johnny Depp’s Buying the Croc

Someone named Shilo Urban at Seattle-based CultureMob claimed yesterday that:

It’s going around the streets of Seattle like wildfire that Johnny Depp is going to buy the old Crocodile Cafe and make it much, much cooler (and hotter) than it ever was before.

Apparently Seattlest isn’t in touch with "the streets," cuz we haven’t heard a thing.

Or maybe we’re just not hanging with the right drunks.

This is from several unreliable sources, some of whom were at least partially inebriated at the time of bean-spillage. It’s a juicy one though, and Seattle would LOVE it to be true, am I right?

Or maybe because someone named Shilo Urban thought name-dropping Mr. Scissorhands would drive traffic to the Mob site.

If our amazing powers of cynicism are accurate, Johnny Depp’s interest in the former Crocodile Café starts and ends with shameless self-promotion.

Yeah, it’d be swell if Depp were down with Seattle club ownership. It’d be swell to see the Croc open again. But it’d also be swell if it hit 80 dry-sky degrees this weekend.

Are we talking out of turn? Is this "wildfire" rumor actually producing smoke? Tell us we're just bitter snarks.

"Free Me from the Lies..." by Seattlest Flickr pool contributor Chainsaw Riggins.

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By Clint in Arts & Events on May 9, 2008 1:00 PM

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James Kirchmer

tis hard to say what was/is goin' thru everyone's mind here in this court of blog opinion, so to speak, but one thing's for sure: Johnny Depp lives in France. Frickin' FRANCE. which makes this a non-controversy, assuming, of course, that, ummmm, uhhhh, OMG, hep me, i think i just almost but not quite turned into the Uptight Seattleite's scatterbrained lawyer/slash/personal-guru/slash/pot-dealer dude... whew, close one!

;-)

Clint

Averagejoe, I'm upset because I thought of saying that Wil Wheaton was going to buy the Croc--then I got trumped.

Donte

i miss the croc's tuna melt way more than i miss the music.

Shilo Urban

Maybe you missed the first sentence of my post?

I thought the Uptite Seattleite wrote at the Weekly, not the Seattlest.

Thanks for the press tho!

And hey, @4, how do you know I'm a shorty? Is that a rumor going around or something?

Have a great weekend! And I hope to see you at:

CultureMob Presents: THE ROOTS New Album "Rising Down" Listening Party with a DJ set by the distinguished ?uestlove of the Roots, hosted by Black Thought at Neumos June 5th. Check it out here: http://culturemob.com/events/114351-culturemob-com-presents-uestlove-of-the-roots-wa-seattle-capitol-hill-98122-neumos

Quil Ceda

i'm just saying that this shorty here shilo she best stick to pillow fights and adventure travel. it aint no thing if she wants to be starting fires here and there but dang stuff gets out.

keep the community honest and you keep the community clean. all i'm saying.

averagejoe

Why are you even giving this rumor any of your time? Are you just upset that you didn't think of it first or are you looking to ride the traffic wave?

Lighten up.

RMH

I'm not clicking on that link.

Abbey

The fact that "Shilo Urban" used the term "spreading like wildfire" to describe the rumor, when no one I've talked to in the community has heard a peep about it...that's where she loses me.

But who wants to bet Culture Mob's traffic quadrupled yesterday with the surfacing of this rumor?