One night when Sam and I were out hunting for alleys on the Near West Side, we ran into a very friendly gas station owner who invited us in for some beers and beef jerky. I’m still not sure if that decision was a great one or stupid as every conceivable fuck, but it was an epically random night out that turned into a beer-fueled discussion about politics. As they all should…n’t?  Here are some photos and choice quotes:

Raf: “What’s your favorite Tom Jones song?”

Benny: “She’s a Lady”

Benny: “The al-Qaeda, they teach their kids [to shoot a gun] when they’re six years old.”

Benny:  “I know my grandpa had like five big jars [of sheep’s-milk cheese] buried under his house with gold coins.”

Benny: “We had to escape from our village because the Iraqi government bombed the mountains. I was a child, like seven years old when I left my home. That’s what the story of Iraq is.”

Benny: “The city of Nineveh. It’s a Babylonian city. The city, it was built Garden of Eden in it. You know about Garden of Eden?”

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