Goats Wearing Retro Tees and Drinking PBR

As I mentioned last year, DeKalb has spectacular fireworks. And I am not being all holier-than-thou ironic -- they are the best I have ever seen. A+.

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I am signing a lease on a new apartment tomorrow. It is in the historic (yet trendy!) Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago, which borders Wicker Park, and together these neighborhoods may represent the center of hipsterdom. So I will be an old geezer.

Here is a brief blurb about Bucktown, from Chicago.com:

The area has many trendy restaurants and upscale shops appealing to young professionals and real estate developers alike. But remnants of a historic and quainter Bucktown are evident in the hundred-year-old buildings and cobblestone paths.

This community boasts more artists than any other area in the Midwest, including an artist colony called Gallery Point. This Chicago neighborhood also hosts the Bucktown Arts Fest, attracting over 30,000 visitors to the area every August.

A thriving nightlife also has provided the area with a higher-than-average ratio of hip bars, clubs, posh restaurants, and shopping opportunities galore.

But most importantly, this:

Popular theory has it that the Chicago neighborhood of Bucktown got its name in the early 1800's as a result of its primarily Polish population's penchant for raising goats, the male of which is called a buck.