Merrily surfing the interwebs at 2am, leisurley pantless and drinking iced tea, I got a text from a traveling Gemini. Fresh off a mini-tour and laying in some unknown grassy location in San Diego, he asked if I were watching the meteor shower. I texted back, reminding him that I am in L.A., where at any moment, there are more police helicopters visible in the sky than astronomical bodies.

Curious, and not one to miss a party, I located some pants, and propped open the rusty window to the third floor fire escape. The bars were just letting out on Franklin Avenue, and drunk couples were stumbling to their cars, motorcycles were stirring up noise on the busy avenue below. I looked up for an unbroken seven minutes.

Nothing.

I sent a chagrined text to Gemini, and received these words back: "Be patient."

So on my rickety steel basket fire escape, I continued to stand suspended over my street, neck craned, scanning the sky. After a carload of bawdy drunks honked and bellowed up at me, I realized I looked like a 3rd story hooker. I waited another moment, and at the faintest streak of light, ducked back through the window in inside. I'm pretty sure it was a plane, but that was enough.

Yet another reason why I love Koreatown...

It's already home to the greatest KFC in the city (world?), a postmodernist behemoth of a building complete with a lifesize replica of Mr. Sanders inside for all your MySpace profile pic needs. It's also home to BCD Tofu House, one of the most reliable post-drinkin' grub spots in this city.

But a couple weeks ago, while driving south on Western just north of 6th Street, I spotted a full-size ship smack dab in the middle of K-Town. Waaaaaa? And the name emblazoned on the side of the ship: CafeJack.net.

After passing it again tonight, I decided to look the joint up on something called "the internet." Turns out there's no real site for CafeJack.net, just a stand-in site that, to its credit, does mention a "Cafe Jack in Ktwon":

The site also features a pop-up window touting free screensavers, if you're in the market for sexy babes and/or dolphin pics (and who isn't?):

So:

Why is there a ship in K-Town?

Why does it have '.net' in its name if there's no Web site?

Who's my real father?

Stay tuned, Metromixers! I hope to have at least two of these questions answered by next week...